Merrill Markoe

Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Comedy legend Merrill Markoe (Head writer for Late Night with David Letterman) stops by to talk with writers Mike Sweeney and Jessie Gaskell about learning how to produce a morning talk show on the fly during her time working on The David Letterman Show, where the idea for remotes with Letterman came from, what she was looking for in writers for Letterman’s move to Late Night, how her background as an artist helped her write comedy for TV, and her new book “We Saw Scenery: The Early Diaries of Merrill Markoe.” Plus, Mike and Jessie answer a special two part listener voicemail question. Got a question for Inside Conan? Call our voicemail: (323) 209-5303 and e-mail us at [email protected] For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com

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0:00.0	And now, it's time for Inside Conan, an important Hollywood Podcast. Hello and welcome back.
0:20.0	This is Inside Conan,
0:21.0	colon, an important Hollywood podcast.
0:23.6	We are your hosts.
0:24.6	We are, I'm Mike Sweeney, a writer on the Conan Show.
0:27.7	And I'm Jesse Gascal, another writer on the Conan Show.
0:31.8	There's more than one of us. There are, I don't know the Conan show. There's more than one of us.
0:33.5	There are, I don't know the exact number
0:35.2	because I can't count above 10.
0:38.0	Is it 12 writers?
0:40.4	And we're a very tight group for a guy who doesn't know the number.
0:43.8	It just feels like it's just one big person.
0:47.1	We're that close.
0:48.1	Yes, thank God for the Zoom meetings with the writers because we have a lot of laughs.
0:53.4	We do.
0:54.1	And actually we were going to have an emergency
0:56.2	zoom today, even though we don't have a show,
0:59.0	just to discuss the breaking news that the president has coronavirus.
1:04.8	Already big newsweek because of the that debacle of a debate and you're like, okay, well
1:10.1	nothing will knock that off the ledge.
1:12.1	Can't top that.
1:13.4	Whoopsy, whoopsy.
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