Life and Career
Born in Israel to an Orthodox Jewish family, Cohen grew up in Efrat and Sharon, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Maimonides School and Harvard College, where he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon.
His first produced scripts, in 1995 and 1997, were for Beavis and Butthead, where he was credited as Ethan Cohen. He has since written for other Mike Judge-directed projects, including King of the Hill from 2001 to 2005, and for the feature film Idiocracy in 2006. In the late 1990s he worked on two other television series - the animated Recess and the short lived It's Like You Know. After scripting Idiocracy he worked on the hit animated series, American Dad and wrote the episode, "Failure Is Not a Factory-Installed Option".
In 2008, Cohen cowrote, along with Ben Stiller and Justin Theroux, the action-comedy film Tropic Thunder. He also wrote Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
Columbia Pictures hired Etan Cohen to pen the script for Men in Black 3. Other projects he is currently writing include feature films, Candy Land, The Fiance and Project A.
On July 10, 2012 it was announced that Cohen is currently writing the script for Ghostbusters 3.
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