- Carter Bays
Carter Bays (b. 1975?) [cite web | url=http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/detail/index.jsp?uuid=ae969501-d9e3-4679-900e-28fd88bbe95d | title=TV Summer School: How to Create and Run a Successful Sitcom | author=Korbi Ghosh | publisher=EOnline.com | date=2007-11-06 | accessdate=2007-11-15] is an American
television writer . Along with writing partner Craig Thomas, he is best known as a creator, writer, andexecutive producer of theCBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother ". Like several of the main characters on the show, Bays and Thomas attendedWesleyan University . [ [http://www.wesleyan.edu/about/alumni.html List of notable Wesleyan University alumni] , Wesleyan University website] The duo are also members of a band calledThe Solids . Bays playsguitar and is thelead singer of the band, which performed the theme songs for both "Oliver Beene " and "How I Met Your Mother". [ [http://www.myspace.com/wearethesolids The Solids MySpace page] ]Prior to the creation of "How I Met Your Mother", Bays and Thomas wrote for a number of television shows including "Oliver Beene" and "
Quintuplets ". They also wrote part two of the "American Dad! " episode "Stan of Arabia ".Notes
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