On Dec 21, 11:37 am, "Pollak, Melissa F." <mpol...@nsf.gov> wrote: > Queens of Comedy > Q How many women are on Letterman's, Leno's, and Conan O'Brien's > comedy-writing staffs? > > A Zero. And Jimmy Kimmel and Craig Ferguson each employ just one (in > Ferguson's case, it's his sister). "My best guess is that it has some > relationship to Newton's Law-an object in motion stays in motion," > veteran (female) comedy writer Merrill Markoe says. "It's a pernicious > pattern that has set in over the years and needs to be interrupted > somehow." A notable exception is the E! Network's Chelsea Handler > [pictured], whose 10-person writing staff is half men and half women.
With at least one of Handler's writers sitting on the panel every night, as well. And they're all non-WGA members (most of 'em are aspiring standups and I assume they do have AFTRA cards), although I suspect that the writers who have a "story producer" credit instead of "writer" are people who got WGA cards after being hired. Seems to me that E! wants to stay 100% outside-of-AFTRA non-union. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
