The "Late Show" has promoted Jill Goodwin, a writer's assistant and longtime staff
member, to its writing team.
Comedy writers' rooms are notoriously male-dominated, a fact that was brought into
the spotlight again recently by Nell Scovell, a former Letterman writer who wrote a
piece for Vanity Fair about the hyper-sexualized atmosphere she experienced in
the writers' room.
Scovell calculated that, in 27 years, Letterman's "Late Night" and "Late Show" had
hired only seven female writers
Scovell said that, for her, the "Late Show" was a "hostile work environment," due to
the sexual politics of the office.
