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Simon Nye (born 29 July 1958 in Burgess Hill, Sussex) is an English comedy writer best known for creating the hit sitcom Men Behaving Badly.

Nye was educated at Bedford College, University of London, where he studied French and German. He started his writing career as a translator, publishing translations of books on Richard Wagner, Henri Matisse and Georges Braque before turning his hand to novel writing in 1989 with Men Behaving Badly. This was followed in 1991 by Wideboy, which he later adapted into the TV show Frank Stubbs Promotes.