Nell Scovell and Breaking Into the Hollywood Boys' Club | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 41)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Larry Wilmore weighs in on President Trump disinviting the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles to the White House (1:00). Then he chats with comedy writer and producer Nell Scovell about her experience as a woman in largely all male writers' rooms (15:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back.
0:07.8	This is Larry Womor.
0:09.0	I am Black on the air.
0:11.0	Well, I go on the air.
0:12.4	So really, really entertaining guest today.
0:16.4	Ms. Nell Scovell and no friend of mine actually from the writing days.
0:20.2	Very funny.
0:21.2	She has a book out of just the funny parts.
0:22.2	It's about her days and showbiz being a woman in the comedy business which wasn't easy
0:27.3	in those days and these days.
0:29.6	She's gotten better and she talks about it.
0:30.7	She's really funny and the way she talks about it is awesome.
0:34.0	So she's going to be on and I think you'll enjoy that.
0:37.2	What a week it's been, man, with the whole Rosanne and San B thing going on.
0:42.6	You got ape and the seawater and all this stuff.
0:46.5	It was a crazy week of words.
0:49.0	I don't know if you guys saw Bill Clinton.
0:50.4	He was doing an interview with NBC News and like, I don't know what he has going on.
0:54.4	I don't know if he's hung on a book or whatever.
0:56.8	There's something going on.
0:58.9	I say that because he made a distraction out of his interview where they asked him about
1:04.2	Monica Lewinsky and if he would apologize and it's so funny because Clinton has this
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