Top 10 Reasons This Woman Can't Write for Late Night Comedy Shows

Catie Lazarus, 11.18.2009

www.doctorlazarus.com

My lady sensibility is limited to menstruation (hilarious), babies (adorable), and unicorns mating (adorably hilarious).

No Women Featured in NY Comedy Festival! No Joke!

Beverly Wettenstein, 10.15.2009

New York City-based journalist, national public speaker, media critic and women’s historian

The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.

Letterman's Running Gag About Crashing Obama/Oprah Dinner on Martha's Vineyard: Hasn't Dave Heard Teddy Kennedy Died?

Michael Russnow, 09.27.2009

Screenwriter, former Member Writers Guild West Board of Directors

David Letterman continued joking about not being invited to dinner with Oprah and Obama in Martha's Vineyard even after he knew the president was delivering a eulogy for Ted Kennedy on Saturday.

The Late Night Wars: Craig Ferguson

Susan Braudy, 05.26.2009

Here's my issue: I'm a Craig Ferguson junkie--and Ferguson and Fallon are now late-night talk show rivals at 12:30. I love his brain. He and his boss Dave Letterman are TV's smartest guys.

Craig Ferguson's "A Wee Bit O' Revolution"

Sean L. McCarthy, 04.21.2009

Publisher of The Comic's Comic, providing round-the-clock news about comedy

He jokes freely about his years of drug and alcohol abuse, and going through rehab. "If you haven't been to rehab, check your HMO!"

The New York Times is the Paper of Record, Funny.

Catie Lazarus, 09.25.2009

www.doctorlazarus.com

Gosh, the New York Times investigative reporter critic Alessandra Stanley has her finger on comedy's pulse.

Why Are All the Talk-Show Hosts White Guys?

Brandt Goldstein, 03.27.2009

Visting Professor at New York Law School and Author, Storming the Court (Scribner 2005)

Given that Conan O'Brien just took his last bow on NBC's Late Night, let 's have a frank conversation: Why are evening talk-show hosts almost all white guys?

Five Reasons NBC's Leno Move Is Brilliant

Lee Stranahan, 01.10.2009

Filmmaker, Writer, Photographer

Moving Leno to Conan's early lead-in will create a stronger Conan Tonight Show by allowing him the breathing room to adjust to the earlier time slot and build his own audience.

Friday Talking Points [53] -- Why McCain Is Losing, And Why Democrats Shouldn't Say So

Chris Weigant, 11.24.2008

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

John McCain is losing the race for the White House. Now, this doesn't mean he has already lost it -- we've still got to go vote, after all. I'll cov...

Friday Talking Points [49] -- Before And After The First Debate

Chris Weigant, 10.27.2008

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

[UPDATED -- See part 2 in the Talking Points section.] This week's column will be presented in a sort of semi-liveblogging fashion. What you're getti...

John McCain's Big Lies

Janet Ritz, 10.16.2008

Publisher, editor, the-environmentalist.org

The distortions coming from the campaign make it impossible to determine who John McCain is beyond the noise, the distractions

Friday Talking Points [47] -- Our First Anniversary

Chris Weigant, 10.13.2008

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

Surprise! It's our first anniversary column! But before we get to that, I have to pass on this information, in the hopes nobody will get stung by a v...

Craig Ferguson: "If you don't vote, you're a moron"

Kerry Trueman, 10.12.2008

Co-founder of EatingLiberally.org

For nearly two weeks now, I've been suffering from a newly-minted malady called Palin-paralysis--a nasty tv-transmitted virus I caught after watchi...

Friday Talking Points [30] -- "Mainstream Media Out To Lunch" Edition

Chris Weigant, 05.10.2008

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news? So d...