- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Garry Shandling's stand-up specials were masterpieces of tightly crafted stories that delivered both hard jokes and hard truths. He was neurotic and self-deprecating, and his observations on life cut deep.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on in my career, I was often the only woman in the room, writing for shows like 'Late Night with David Letterman,' 'The Simpsons,' 'Newhart,' and 'Coach,' and sometimes I'd feel like I didn't belong.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
In her darkest hours, Diana, Princess of Wales, could have used a friend like Empress Elisabeth of Austria. The two lived similar lives, a century apart.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Albert Brooks. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Larry David. The best comedic actors play broad and real simultaneously, coming across as both larger than life and all too human.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moms Mabley blazed a path for female stand-ups in a housecoat and floppy hat. Phyllis Diller worked equally hard to make herself unattractive to men and non-threatening to women.
- Attended
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- Nov 07, 2020
In March 2010, I attended an art opening for Kimberly Brooks's show 'The Stylist Project' in Los Angeles. It was a starry celebration hosted by Dior and 'Vanity Fair' to benefit P.S. Arts. But even as fun-to-gape-at actresses like Christina Hendricks arrived, I couldn't take my eyes off the oil portraits.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies from publicists explaining that their clients are on set and too busy to reply.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jenny McCarthy has used her celebrity and sex appeal to attract attention to autism. And while no one questions McCarthy's determination and passion, many scientists have debunked her anti-vaccine message and her claims that a gluten-free diet can provide a cure.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Constant exercise can keep the body trim and taut, but the face is another thing.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I traveled to Israel in a small party assembled by Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief of 'The New Republic.' Other guests included Senator Al Gore and his wife, Tipper. Like every tourist group, we climbed Masada, floated in the Dead Sea, and visited a kibbutz.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been many great newspapermen, but to my mind, only two have achieved immortality: Pulitzer for his endowment and William Randolph Hearst for his castle.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Retaining a child-like sense of wonder is a boon for creative types like Steven Spielberg and J. K. Rowling.
- Appearance
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminists cried, 'Sexism!' when New York Senator Hillary Clinton was judged not by the content of her character but by the color of her pantsuits.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The focus on male politicians extends beyond clothes, legs, and pretty faces. It's hard to find an article about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich that doesn't mention his mop.
- Barack Obama
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Lindsay Lohan and Lauren Conrad, Barack Obama is addicted to his BlackBerry.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In TV, you look to make characters consistent, but in real life, we're not consistent. Sometimes we're brave, and sometimes we're not. Sometimes we're very aggressive, and sometimes we back right down.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first Emmys I went to was in 1990 when the five nominees for best comedy were 'Designing Women,' 'Golden Girls,' 'Murphy Brown,' 'Cheers,' 'Wonder Years.' Three and a half were created by women.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start a memoir, you think, 'I'm going to blast all the people who were mean to me.' And then you start writing, and you go, actually, it's so much more fun to say nice things about people who were kind and generous to you.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.
- Front
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say, 'Dress for the job you want,' and since I wanted a job that guys had, I dressed like a guy.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven.
- Cast
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, my system for tracking down funny female writers isn't methodical. It's mainly based on word-of-mouth, which can cast a limited net.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moral licensing comes into play when people rely on past behavior to dismiss current prejudiced behavior. This is better known as the 'Some of my best friends are...' defense.
- Admit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great things about being in entertainment is you have access to the media. People pay attention to you.
- Insider
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm both an insider and an outsider.
- Abuse Of Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studies do show that in hierarchical structures, you do get more harassment. There's more power concentrated at the top, which means there's more abuse of power concentrated at the top. And every TV show is very much a hierarchy.
- Doorstep
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this perception that there's a pipeline problem for women and people of color. I don't buy into that. I think we have a broken doorbell problem, and there are plenty of women and people of color standing at the doorstep trying to get in the door, and nobody's opening it.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
For thirty years, I've been hearing that it's getting better for women. And until I see statistical proof over enough years that that's true, I won't believe it.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, in all fields, there's this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother - and this is true whether you give birth or adopt - you're perceived to not be as committed to your job. Whereas men are perceived as breadwinners who now need more money and promotions because they're fathers.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to let a bad experience stop you from doing what you want to do.
- Exploded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like leggings, comedies created by women came into vogue in the late 1980s, exploded in the early '90s, went mainstream in the mid-'90s, and were shoved into the back of the closet around 1997.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fantasize about the networks making a rule that each show's writing staff needs to reflect the gender and racial makeup of its audience.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write, I feel like an optometrist, constantly flipping between lenses and asking, 'Is this better? Is this?' Slowly, the work comes into focus.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood is built on relationships, and the way you keep relationships is by playing nice.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.
- Core
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes.
- Blue-Eyed
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- Nov 07, 2020
When blue-eyed Donald Trump married hazel-eyed Ivana Zelnickova, he probably figured his broad-shouldered DNA would dominate her girly alleles. But genetics played a cruel trick on Trump: Of the couple's three children, only the youngest, Eric, wound up with his father's fishy blue eyes.
- Ordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've stepped over the line and made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.
- Credits
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- Nov 07, 2020
By June 1990, I'd racked up 'written by' credits on both 'Newhart' and 'The Simpsons.'
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creative process is often wrapped up in bottomless anxiety, and when the world applauds the product of that process, it soothes the anxiety. Briefly. Then the anxiety returns and even intensifies.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first joke that ever aired on 'Late Night' was for a list of 'Top 10 Least Popular Summer Camps.' My contribution - 'Camp Tick in beautiful Lyme, Connecticut' - squeaked in at No. 10. Like a trip to Camp Tick, my time at 'Late Night' faded into memory like a short session at a dicey summer camp.
- Late-Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the second female writer ever hired at 'Late Night.' When I applied for the job in 1988, I had no way of knowing how much the odds were stacked against me.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realize that 'hire qualified women!' is the sort of outraged demand that's often met with a sigh. No one disagrees, and yet gender inequality in high-paying positions extends into all professions.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'
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- Nov 07, 2020