Nell Scovell

Hollywood Reporter

I know it’s just an industry rag, but I’m in the Hollywood Reporter!

The Boston Globe

Some Q&A with the first major newspaper I wrote for (while still in college). There will always be something special about the Globe for me.

Entertainment Weekly

I talked with Dana Schwartz about Just the Funny Parts. She asked some great questions,

Read it here.

92nd Street Y – in conversation with John Oliver

The 92nd Street Y is so hip! They are high-tech! It’s swell!

If you click this link you can watch John Oliver be funny and me share the stage with him.

I made Bustle’s List

The 11 New Memoirs Everyone Will Be Talking About This Spring

How great is it that they had their list go to eleven? I’m happy to be included with a bunch of other people writing about themselves.

In 2009, I helped write the Oscars’ Red Carpet pre-show. Standing on the red carpet, I was inches from Beyonce, Daniel Craig, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Taraji P. Henson. They all disappeared into the Kodak theater but I didn’t have a ticket so I stayed behind. Instantly, the Red Carpet became a ghost town. There were a few workers off to the side, already starting to rip up the carpet when I decided to walk the entire length and savor the moment. About halfway down, something caught my eye–a tiny flash of bright white in this sea of red.

I bent down to examine the item and laughed. Someone had dropped an oval-shaped, scored line down the middle – definitely not a Tic Tac. I took a photo and later googled the shape. It was a Xanax.

And I thought, well, that sums up the evening…. and all of Hollywood in fact. Because when you strip away all the glamor and excitement, the composure and the confidence, you get to what holds this entire industry up… and that’s pharmaceuticals.