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...Late-night ad libs: Jay Leno and David Letterman have been through this before. They ended up curtailing their monologues and, in Letterman's case, resorting to a Top Two List. But Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert haven't had to do without their crack writing teams. Expect minimal monologues from all funnymen, and maximal celebrity interviews...
...clowns of the brood, able to get their way simply by being funny or outrageous. Birth-order scholars often observe that some of history's great satirists-Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain-were among the youngest members of large families, a pattern that continues today. Faux bloviator Stephen Colbert-who yields to no one in his ability to get a laugh-often points out that he's the last of 11 children...
FIRST JOB SUPERVISED SPECIAL PROJECTS AT THE COMITE COLBERT...
After graduation in 1985?fewer than one-third of Hermann's classmates were women?there were three job offers for every student. Hermann turned down an entry-level post at L'Oréal in order to supervise special projects at the Comité Colbert, a luxury-goods trade association. (Maureen Chiquet, Chanel's global CEO, who is the same age as Hermann, started at L'Oréal as a brand manager for hair color.) When a L'Oréal director inquired why Hermann went elsewhere, she told him, "I didn't want to spend my days selling shampoo in the south...
...small step from WWN ("America's Only Reliable Newspaper") to The Onion ("America's Finest News Source"). Soon the Onion staff found jobs as writers or producers on Late Night With David Letterman, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and were festooned with Emmys and movie deals. But the hip mainstream ignored the WWN writers; they continued to toil away anonymously in American Media Inc.'s Boca Raton, Fla., home office, whose most severe brush with notoriety was during the anthrax attacks of Sept. 2001, when a photo editor opened an envelope containing the bacteria and was killed...