![]() ![]() It was a family style, and we all loved to watch Vegas comedians on the Ed Sullivan show and listen to Stan Freberg and Allan Sherman, and when Larry, Curly, and Moe did their thing, well, watching them was almost a religious rite. My father had taught me how to write and I wanted to be like him - funny. In the beginning I would send material to Mad Magazine under the name “Dean,” as I saw that it was mainly written by boys. I’ve been writing since I was a little girl. The same issues are involved, for completely different reasons. ![]() ![]() After I read Nell’s piece, I began thinking about my own experience with Dave Letterman, the one that didn’t happen. It was a follow-up to an essay she had written 10 years before, in which she talked about walking away from a job as a writer for the Letterman show because of sexual favoritism - the now-familiar circumstance of not being treated fairly as the only woman writer amid a group of men. Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of WomenĮarlier this year, comedy writer Nell Scovell wrote a piece about a conversation with Dave Letterman. ![]()
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