The Gist
Breaking Up Comedy's Boys Club
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On The Gist, our attempt to track the new scoops that affected the Mueller investigation.
We're not playing "Is That Bulls--t" on the show today, but if we were, comedy writer Nell Scovell would probably say, "Yes." Yes, the dearth of women in late-night writers' rooms is bulls--t. Yes, men's explanations are bulls--t. And, yes, sometimes women themselves willingly succumb to the bulls--t because, as Scovell says, "Look, this s--t is deep." Her new book is Just the Funny Parts.
In the Spiel, denigrating the top 80 books sold on Amazon.
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