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There is something mysterious and exciting about working in the writers’ room of a late-night show. Maybe it’s because the hosts are presented as these paragons of humanity, so the writers are then like the man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz. There’s enough excitement in the late-night world that Mindy Kaling wrote a movie set there — Late Night, in theaters now. (Also here’s a shout-out to The Larry Sanders Show.) But what’s it like in 2019, when things have felt on fire for so long we can’t remember what the sky looked like before it was filled with smoke? Was it clear? Yellow? And the moon was at night and the sun not at night?
We asked some late-night writers, live, at 92Y. The panel included Jenny Hagel (Late Night With Seth Meyers), Ziwe Fumudoh (Desus & Mero, The Rundown With Robin Thede),…
