BRANSON MO NEWS: Every Wednesday, L.A. Weekly will focus on a woman making a difference in Hollywood. In our debut #wcw feature, Entertainment Editor Michele Raphael shares a conversation with Nell Scovell, author of the new book Just the Funny Parts, about her #MeToo moment and her motivation to pull the curtain back on the sexism in late-night comedy in her memoir. In comedy, and sometimes in life, timing is everything. With the rise of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, Nell Scovell’s memoir, Just the Funny Parts … and a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys’ Club, published last month, is right on time. Scovell is an L.A.-based comedy writer and the creator of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch; her career has spanned writing for Murphy Brown, Late Night With David Letterman and The Simpsons as well as co-authoring Lean In with Sheryl Sandberg and writing jokes (including the punch line of a wink) for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. After decades of too often being the only woman in the writing room, Scovell reveals Hollywood’s uncomfortable truths and advocates for diversity in the industry, landing her punches with uncanny candor — and humor. L.A. Weekly: You describe a #MeToo moment early in your career in L.A. in the late 1980s involving Jim Stafford, then head writer of a remake of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, that makes our heart sink as readers and yet glad that you didn’t blame yourself and somehow were able to shake it off. Of course #MeToo didn’t exist then and only does because of women like you speaking up in Hollywood. In that chapter, “The Big Twist,” you also mention Harvey Weinstein. Was it written before the #MeToo movement took off in full gusto late last year? Nell …
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