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Merrill Markoe Merrill Markoe is an author and television writer. She has written for many television shows, among them the failed 1977 revival of Laugh In, Newhart, Sex in the City, and Moonlighting, but she may be best known for her work on Late Night with David Letterman (a show for which she won five Emmys). She was the show's original head writer. . 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." 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. She went on to do on camera writer work as a lifestyle reporter at KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, then for Michael Moore’s short lived NBC show The Awful Truth, as well as other magazine shows such as Lifetime magazine. 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, Glamour, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and Real Simple. 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 and Walking in Circles Before Lying Down.
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