Merrill Markoe co-created “Late Night with David Letterman” and was its first head writer. She wrote for “Sex and the City,” “It's Garry Shandling's Show,” and other programs. She’s also penned ...

When Los Angeles writer and comedian Merrill Markoe is asked about the impetus for her latest novel, "Walking in Circles Before Lying Down," in which the main character finds herself talking to her ...

Who can say, with a straight face, that every birthday they've ever experienced has been the perfect occasion, with every wish granted and all dreams fulfilled? Certainly not Markoe's nameless single ...

Merrill Markoe, longtime head writer at “Late Night With David Letterman,” will receive the Writers Guild of America West’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement. She will be ...

The post Bob Dylan Gives Our Half-Assed Year a Half-Assed Christmas Light Show appeared first on Consequence. As the neighbor of Bob Dylan, author and journalist Merrill Markoe has become a celebrity ...

Merrill Markoe, the writer and comedian, tries to never throw out anything that could make for good material. That could be the goofy ad for “who’s who in the lunch meat industry” or a robe from an ...

Merrill Markoe, longtime head writer at “Late Night With David Letterman,” will receive the Writers Guild of America West‘s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement. She will be ...