Rich Hosek

Rich Hosek is a writer who co-wrote the story for the  second season episode  with Arnold Rudnick.

Hosek worked as assistant to the writers on the pilot episode of the comedy series Grace Under Fire (1993, starring Charles Hallahan). He then worked as production assistant on the comedy series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1994-1995) and wrote with writing partner Arnold Rudnick the episode "The Ol' Ball and Chain" (1994, starring James Avery).

Further collaborations with Rudnick as writers include episodes of Hope & Gloria (1996), Silk Stalkings (1998, with Charlie Brill, Eric Pierpoint, and Rende Rae Norman), Pacific Blue (1998, with Eric Steinberg), Misguided Angels (1999), Big Wolf on Campus (2000), and Los Luchadores (2001, with Rekha Sharma).

Between 1998 and 1999, Hosek worked as story editor, executive consultant and writer with Rudnick on the horror comedy series The New Addams Family. They both won a Leo Award in the category Best Screenwriter of a Music, Comedy or Variety Program or Series in 2000 for their work on the episode "Tale of Long John Addams". In this episode, Hosek also made a cameo appearance as a pirate.