Recode Decode: Nell Scovell, author, 'Just the Funny Parts'

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Writer and comedian Nell Scovell talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Just the Funny Parts," in front of a live audience in San Francisco. Scovell, who has written on TV shows like "The Simpsons," "Murphy Brown" and "Coach," also co-wrote the hit book "Lean In" with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and tried to adapt it into a movie. She says producers tried to rework the story to fit what they considered to be successful films about women, like "Pretty Woman" and "Bridesmaids." Scovell also offers her theory for why the MeToo movement arose when it did — after Donald Trump was elected president, women had nothing left to lose — and talks about the experience of writing jokes for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Mark Zuckerberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's show is brought to you by HBO.
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0:25.0	Please now join me in welcoming Nell Scoville and Cara Swisher
0:31.0	to the Commonwealth Club.
0:33.0	Thank you, Marissa.
0:38.0	Thank you.
0:40.0	Thank you, everybody.
0:43.0	I've never been to this location.
0:45.0	It's quite lovely.
0:47.0	Is everyone so hungover from all the Earth Day activities?
0:51.0	Yeah.
0:54.0	Thank you for coming.
0:56.0	I have to read this part for the beginning of the Commonwealth Club.
0:59.0	Welcome to the Commonwealth Club tonight's program, Inforum.
1:02.0	I'm Cara Swisher, founder and executive editor of ReCO.
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