Merrill Markoe

Merrill Markoe
Merrill Markoe
Born August 13, 1948 (1948-08-13) (age 63)
Occupation Author, screenwriter
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley (B.A. in Art 1970; M.A. in 1972)[1]
Notable work(s) Late Night with David Letterman
Notable award(s) Four Emmy Awards[2]

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Merrill Markoe (born August 13, 1948)[citation needed] is an author, an Emmy Award-winning television writer and a sometime standup comedienne.

Career

Markoe attended the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a B.A. in Art in 1970 and an M.A. in 1972.[1] Her first job after leaving the university was teaching art at the University of Southern California[1] After auditing scriptwriting classes, and doing research for the head writer of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Markoe was hired as writer for the 1977 revival of Laugh-In, joining a team that included Robin Williams.[1]

In 1980, Markoe was original head writer for The David Letterman Show, a short-lived live NBC morning show whose writing team was recognized with a Daytime Emmy Award.[2]

She may be best known for her work on Late Night with David Letterman (a show for which she shared in three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing).[2] 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",[3] 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.[2] She and Letterman were also involved romantically from 1978–1988,[3] after which Markoe moved to California to pursue a writing career.

She has also written for television shows,such as Newhart, Sex and the City and Moonlighting. She appeared on-camera as a lifestyle reporter at KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, then for Michael Moore's NBC show TV Nation, and worked on other magazine shows such as Lifetime Magazine. In the early 1990s she wrote and directed a number of HBO and Cinemax comedy specials.

In 2005, Markoe was a regular panelist on Animal Planet's Who Gets the Dog? She has had a number of columns and written for many periodicals including Rolling Stone, Time, New York Woman, New Woman, US News and World Report, US, People, Esquire, The Huffington Post, Glamour, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Real Simple, etc. She appears in episode 2 of Friends as Marsha, the irritable museum curator and can be seen in the movie EDTV as a panelist, as well as in the cast of The Aristocrats. She appeared in two episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast from 1997–1998 as the unwilling subject of the Late Night talk show host's affections. Her books include Merrill Markoe's Guide to Love, How To Be Hap-Hap-Happy Like Me, What the Dogs Have Taught Me, It's My F---ing Birthday, The Psycho Ex Game (cowritten with Andy Prieboy) and Walking in Circles Before Lying Down and Nose Down, Eyes Up (2009).

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