Writer Nell Scovell on her years in TV and 'Just the Funny Parts'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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TV writer Nell Scovell’s credits include ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Murphy Brown,’ ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ and ‘NCIS.’ When she started working in TV in the late 1980’s, more often than not, she’d be the only woman in the writers room. And in a lot of places, she's found, that's still the case. She tells us about calling out Letterman in Vanity Fair and shares stories from her new book ‘Just the Funny Parts.’

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:04.2	My husband and I called our accountant to see if I never worked again,
0:09.6	if, you know, we'd be able to put the kids through college.
0:13.7	Literally.
0:14.3	It was scary.
0:14.6	You literally did that.
0:15.3	I literally did that.
0:17.3	When David Letterman admitted in 2009, to sleeping with female staffers,
0:21.7	something inside TV writer Nell Scovel snapped.
0:25.2	She wanted to speak out about how those relationships
0:27.4	had affected her when she worked for Letterman years earlier,
0:30.6	but she feared retaliation.
0:32.9	Scovel, who has worked on TV shows from Newhart to NCIS
0:36.8	to Sabrina the Teenage Witch
0:38.3	explains why she decided to take the risk of writing in Vanity Fair about her experience
0:43.0	working for Letterman. And she tells us about her new book, Just the Funny Parts.
0:47.3	But first on the news banter, broadcast networks are cheering for Roseanne.
0:51.6	Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.
1:00.0	I. cheering for Rosanne. Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my lead-off batter and banter. Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt. Hi there. Happy
1:04.3	baseball season. Yeah, happy baseball season. Dodger fan. You are, a big one. Yes, I am. You're going to be
1:09.3	having fun. I hope, again. So, you are, a big one. Yes, I am. You're going to be having fun. I hope, again.
1:12.4	So, Rosanne, the broadcast networks, even the ones that aren't ABC, which benefited from this
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