Former Letterman Writer Dishes

David Letterman never hit on Nell Scovell, but during her brief stint as a writer on Late Night, she was aware that he was having sexual relationships with other women in the workplace and that those women were consequently benefitting professionally. “Did that make me feel demeaned? Completely,” she writes for Vanity Fair. But instead of saying something at the time, Scovell quit her job and moved to L.A., where she went on to create the television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and write for other shows. She is speaking up now in the hopes that late-night comedy shows will add more women to their writing staffs, which are currently extremely male-dominated: “At this moment, there are more females serving on the United States Supreme Court than there are writing for Late Show with David Letterman, The Jay Leno Show, and The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien combined.”