Jaffe Cohen

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Jaffe Cohen (born 1962) is an American TV writer and producer. He co-created Feud with Ryan Murphy and Michael Zam. Earlier, in the 1980s, he became known as part of the comedy group Funny Gay Males with Bob Smith and Danny McWilliams. They toured for years, doing solo sets and performing at the 1991 Just for Laughs festival. They also wrote the humor book Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out (1995), which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.

After the troupe paused in the late 1990s, Cohen auditioned for the role of Simon in As Good As It Gets (1997) but did not get the part, reportedly because the character was gay; he did appear in a smaller supporting role as a party guest. He performed at the 1997 We're Funny That Way! festival; part of his set appears in David Adkin’s 1998 documentary, and he was in the 1998 sketch comedy special In Thru the Out Door. He co-wrote the 1999 film Hit and Runway, which won Best Screenplay at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival.

Funny Gay Males briefly reunited in the mid-2000s, adding Eddie Sarfaty as a fourth member. Cohen later became a professor of television and film writing at the State University of New York at Oneonta. For Feud, he earned nominations from the Producers Guild of America (Best Long-Form Television), the Writers Guild of America (Best Long Form Original Television), and two Emmy nominations (Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie).