"Carter Bays" is an American television writer and television producer. Along with writing partner Craig Thomas (screenwriter)/Craig Thomas, he is best known as creator, writer, and Executive producer#Motion pictures and television/executive producer of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. He also wrote "How I Met Your Dad" with Craig Thomas (screenwriter)/Craig Thomas, Emily Spivey and Greta Gerwig. He has been nominated for seven primetime Emmy Awards, including Best Original Song for "Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit."

Prior to the creation of How I Met Your Mother, Bays and Thomas wrote for a number of television shows including Late Night with David Letterman. They also wrote for American Dad,Quintuplets and Oliver Beene. In 2013 they created the TV series The Goodwin Games which was canceled by FOX after only 7 episodes. In 2014, the two were working on the pilot episode of "How I Met Your Dad", which was not picked up by CBS.

Bays lives in New York with his wife and their two young daughters. Bays graduated from Wesleyan University in 1997. One of his daughters appeared at the end of Trilogy Time, another one at the end of Unpause.

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We sort of look at our years at 'Letterman' as comedy grad school. I don't mind seeing jokes and hearing the laugh track because that was our bread and butter for a long time, just making an audience laugh ... There's no better feeling than having a crowd there and hearing a laugh.

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But they've been fearless about it. There hasn't been a moment of doubt or a suggestion to make it more traditional. We have no 'indignant writer' stories to tell.

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But for us it was three years ago. We still miss it. We love New York so much.

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Great, now we've blown the series finale.

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I went through periods where you're just sort of writing things that are supposed to be funny and things that look like a sitcom. Now we're writing about real life and things that we care about. That's one of the things that a lot of these new shows have in common, like Everybody Hates Chris -- he's writing about his life.

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