Merrill Markoe
Screenwriter and Author
TV: Among late-night writers, few women in the room...acknowledged that recruiting and hiring female writers was a daunting challenge for them at the time. Markoe said she believed what she called "an odd shift toward more boys' humor" in the '90s might have kept some women from landing... In this article: David Letterman, Merrill Markoe, Madeleine Smithberg, Lizz Winstead, The Daily Show, The Jay Leno Show, Steve Bodow, Allison Silverman, Barbara Gaines, and Howard Stern |
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Entertainment Weekly | November 12, 2009
David Letterman's ex-writer, ex-girlfriend zings Dave
...about the combination of a close working and personal relationship she once shared with the host, Markoe said, "I can remember a few times following him into the bathroom, postrehearsal, preshow, while he showered and got ready. I stood...
In this article: David Letterman, Anton Fig, and New York Times
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ChicagoNow | October 28, 2009
F'ing the Boss, Screwing the Host
...comedy routines (Viewer Mail, Stupid Human/Pet Tricks) on Letterman were created by his then-girlfriend, a writer on the show, Merrill Markoe.) Anyway... this piece by ex-Letterman writer, Nell Scovell, is a fascinating look at behind...
In this article: David Letterman and Nell Scovell
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Crazy Days and Nights | October 27, 2009
Letterman Writer Claims Sexual Favoritism Was Rampant
...the same employer that you couldn't wait to leave before. Am I the only one that remembers Merrill Markoe? Wikipedia - In 1980, Merrill Markoe was original head writer for The David Letterman Show, a short-lived live NBC morning show whose...
In this article: David Letterman, Daytime Emmy Award, Wikipedia, Jimmy Kimmel, HBO, The David Letterman Show, and Not Necessarily the News
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Houston Chronicle | October 10, 2009
Hoffman: More skinny on David Letterman, pro and con
...are shocked to learn that Letterman has had affairs with employees of his show? Really? He had a long relationship with Merrill Markoe, who used to be his head writer. Then he had another long-term relationship with another employee, Regina...
In this article: David Letterman, Republican Party, George W. Bush, Houston Chronicle, and CBS
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washingtonpost.com | October 08, 2009
Celebritology Live: Allred on Letterman; MIley Quits Twitter; Levi in Playgirl
...and that she and Dave had already settled this and gotten past it -- remember Dave has a history of dating his employees (Merrill Markoe, Regina Lasko). Though I'm sure it can't feel good to basically be humiliated in front of millions of...
In this article: Miley Cyrus, Twitter, David Letterman, Kirstie Alley, Mad Men, Jon Gosselin, Betty Draper, and Stephanie Birkitt
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The Australian | October 07, 2009
Letterman's lovers line up
"I was madly in love with him," she said. "I would have married him. He was hilarious." A former writer and producer, Merrill Markoe, joked about their relationship on her blog. "Okay. Here it is. My big comment on Mr Letterman," she...
In this article: David Letterman, Stephanie Birkitt, NEW YORK, and New York Post
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Boing Boing | October 06, 2009
Quickdraw Noir, by Merrill Markoe
...Noir. "The rare noir episode of Quickdraw McGraw that featured Peter Lorre. With music by Andy Prieboy." Created by the great Merrill Markoe, who is perhaps best known as David Letterman's original head writer -- she won 5 Emmys for the...
In this article: Twitter, Amsterdam, Trademark, Creative Commons License, and Boing Boing
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Times Online | October 06, 2009
The joke wears thin as Letterman tries to laugh off sex scandal
...a year-long relationship with him in the early 1990s. "I was madly in love with him," Ms Hester said. "I would have married him. " Merrill Markoe, a former writer and producer, joked about their well-known relationship on her blog. "My big...
In this article: David Letterman, Stephanie Birkitt, Gerald Shargel, Emmy Award, Tmz.com, and John Gotti
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Observer.com - All Articles | October 06, 2009
Bizarre Late Night Love Triangle
...his part, was no stranger to conspicuous interoffice affairs. For roughly a decade, ending in the 80s, Mr. Letterman dated Merrill Markoe, who was then head writer on his show. Earlier this year, Mr. Letterman married his longtime partner,...
In this article: David Letterman, Stephanie Birkitt, The Late Show, Daily Beast, and Facebook
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Entertainment Weekly | October 01, 2009
David Letterman reveals extortion attempt
...show for almost 30 years. When he first started his show 30 years ago it was well known he was having a relationship with Merrill Markoe, who worked on the show. I thought they were referring to staff members of his current show. I'm aware...
In this article: David Letterman, CBS, and The Late Show
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Merrill Markoe (born 1951) is an author, a television writer and a sometime standup comedienne. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She has written for many television shows, among them the failed 1977 revival of Laugh In, Newhart, Sex and the City and Moonlighting, but she may be best known for her work on Late Night with David Letterman (a show for which she won five Emmys). She was the show's original head writer, and was the head writer on Letterman's short-lived live NBC morning show in 1980. She engineered most of the original concepts and architecture for the ground-breaking late night talk show, along the way creating the segment "Stupid Pet Tricks," as well as "Stupid Human Tricks" and "Viewer Mail." Many of the ideas behind the remote segments outside the studio came from Markoe, who also won a Writer's Guild award for her writing/performing work on HBO's late-1980s hit Not Necessarily the News. She and Letterman were also involved romantically throughout the 1980s, but by 1988 they had broken up and Markoe moved to California to pursue a writing career.
She went on to do on-camera writer work as a lifestyle reporter at KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, then for Michael Moore's short lived NBC show T.V. Nation, as well as other magazine shows such as Lifetime magazine. In the early 90s she wrote and directed a number of HBO and Cinemax comedy specials.
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