Dan Goor

Dan Goor is an American television writer and producer whose most prominent credit is co-creating Brooklyn Nine-Nine with Michael Schur. The comedy premiered on Fox on September 17, 2013, and follows detectives and civilian employees at a fictional Brooklyn police precinct. Its central pairing is gifted, immature Detective Jake Peralta, played by Andy Samberg, and his exacting commanding officer, Captain Raymond Holt, played by Andre Braugher. The program's large ensemble also includes Amy Santiago, Rosa Diaz, Terry Jeffords, Charles Boyle, Gina Linetti, Michael Hitchcock, and Norm Scully. Goor helped build its stories around casework, office rivalries, friendships, romances, and hierarchy.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine became notable for placing a broad sitcom inside a police setting while repeatedly confronting institutional failures and misconduct. In the fifth season, Fox canceled the series; NBC picked it up the following day for a sixth season. NBC ultimately aired the final two seasons, and the series concluded on September 16, 2021, after eight seasons and 153 episodes. Goor remained a key creative figure across that run. The show won two Golden Globe awards in 2014: Best Television Series—Musical or Comedy and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series—Musical or Comedy for Samberg. This recognition followed.

Goor had already worked on several Schur-associated comedy projects before Brooklyn Nine-Nine. His credits include writing for Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He also wrote for The Office and Parks and Recreation, two NBC comedies on which Schur was a major creative presence. On Parks and Recreation, Goor served as an executive producer and wrote episodes. His earlier work in late-night and satirical television preceded his move into single-camera network comedy production for both series. Those assignments placed him in writers' rooms known for character-based humor, workplace structures, and densely constructed jokes professionally.

As a Brooklyn Nine-Nine writer, Goor received a writing credit on "The Box," a bottle episode from the show's fifth season. Co-written with Luke Del Tredici and directed by Claire Scanlon, it confines much of its action to Holt's interrogation room, where Jake and Holt question murder suspect Philip Davidson, portrayed by Sterling K. Brown. The episode earned Brown a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. Goor and Schur later developed the final season after reevaluating how a comedy about police could respond to the public debate following the murder of George Floyd.