View source for David X. Cohen

{{crew infobox
|firstname=David X.
|surname=Cohen
|image=[[File:David X. Cohen.jpg|225px]]
|profession=Executive producer<br>Voice actor<br>Writer
|age={{age|1966|7|13}}
|birth date={{date|13 July}}, [[1966]]
|wikipedia=David X. Cohen
|imdb=nm0169326
|commentary category=David X. Cohen
|epwritten category=David X. Cohen
|voice category=David X. Cohen
}}
{{about|the producer|the ''[[Futurama]]'' [[character]] |David X. Cohen's head}}

'''David Samuel Cohen''', known professionally as '''David X. Cohen''', is an executive producer, show runner and writer for ''[[Futurama]]''.  Known previously as '''David S. Cohen''', he started his career as a writer on MTV's ''{{w|Beavis and Butt-head}}'' and later joined the writing staff of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' as a writer, story editor, and producer from [[1993]] until [[1998]].

While working on ''The Simpsons'', Cohen was approached by [[Matt Groening]] to help develop ''[[Futurama]]''.  Although usually not credited, he is responsible for "perfecting" most of the scripts for each episode. He also wrote the music for "[[Sponsors#Molten Boron|Molten Boron]]", and designed one of the robots in the robot strip club (the one with the gyrating middle made of gears) on the episode "The Lesser of Two Evils".

In addition, he has done voice work for the show. In the season one episode "[[Love's Labours Lost in Space]]", the voice that announces "This is [[Vergon 6]]" is supposedly a heavily digitized David X. Cohen. He also filled in for [[Billy West]] for one line in the episode "[[I Dated a Robot]]" and along with editors [[Paul D. Calder]] and [[Danik Thomas]], he voiced the choir that sang the number rolled on the [[Die of Power]] in ''[[Bender's Game]]''.  He voiced his own [[David X. Cohen's head|head in a jar]] in "[[Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences]]", where he is presented alongside fellow ''Futurama'' crew members [[Matt Groening's head|Matt Groening]], [[Patric M. Verrone's head|Patric M. Verrone]] and [[Crystal Chesney-Thompson's head|Crystal Chesney-Thompson]] as the creator of ''[[Futurella]]''.  He does a lot of temporary voice work (some of which can still be heard in some animatics) and was persuaded to try out for the part of [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] because he had been told that he has a robotic voice, but claims he couldn't remember how to do his own voice.

While developing ''Futurama'' in 1998, primetime animated television shows in the United States became eligible to unionize with the {{w|Writers Guild of America}}. Because Guild rules state that no two members may have the same name and there was already someone registered with the name {{w|David Steve Cohen|David S. Cohen}}, he changed his middle initial.  He chose the "X" because it sounded more [[Coinage#S|science-fictiony]].

== Credits ==

=== Episodes written ===
{{appear-begin}}
* {{e|1ACV01}}
* {{e|2ACV04}}
* {{e|2ACV16}} (segment "The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime")
* {{e|3ACV07}} (story)
* {{e|3ACV18}} (segment "Raiders of the Lost Arcade")
* {{e|4ACV10}}
* {{f|1}}
** {{e|5ACV01}} (story)
** {{e|5ACV02}} (story)
** {{e|5ACV03}} (story)
** {{e|5ACV04}} (story)
* {{f|2}}
** {{e|5ACV05}} (story)
** {{e|5ACV06}} (story)
** {{e|5ACV07}} (story)
** {{e|5ACV08}} (story)
* {{f|3}}
** {{e|5ACV09}} (story)
** {{e|5ACV10}} (story)
** {{e|5ACV11}} (story)
** {{e|5ACV12}} (story and teleplay)
* {{f|4}}
** {{e|5ACV13}} (story)
** {{e|5ACV16}} (story)
* {{e|6ACV01}} (teleplay and story)
* {{e|7ACV09}}
{{appear-end}}

=== Episodes voiced ===
* {{e|1ACV04}} ("This is [[Vergon 6]]")
* {{e|3ACV15}} (filling in for [[Billy West]])
* {{f|3}} ([[Die of Power]])
* {{e|6ACV11}} ([[David X. Cohen's head|himself]])

== External links ==
*{{s|David X. Cohen}} at Wikisimpsons

{{writers}}
{{voice actors}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, David X.}}
[[Category:Crew]]
[[Category:Executive producers]]
[[Category:Producers]]
[[Category:Special guests]]
[[Category:The Simpsons]]
[[Category:Voice actors]]
[[Category:Writers]]