 When Jimmy Kimmel began his show on ABC, she wrote a letter to ABC Television Group president Anne Sweeney about the need for more women in late night.She was contacted by Molly McNearney, the head writer for the show, and passed along the names of two writers — Bess Kalb and Joelle Boucai — who were hired.In 2019, Scovell wrote a followup article for "Vanity Fair" about how she had met with Letterman to discuss the original piece, which he admitted he had not read but that Scovell "assigned" to him for the later meeting "as homework."