 Spinning off her piece, the "New York Times" reported that three of the top late-night television shows — "The Jay Leno Show", "Late Show with David Letterman" and "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" — had no female writers (a fact which Scovell initially mentioned in her essay), in spite of the fact that women make a larger proportion of late-night audiences than men.The "Times" interviewed comedy writer Merrill Markoe, who mentioned an "odd shift toward more boys' humor in the '90s" that might have kept women from landing late-night jobs.Scovell tried to change comedy's gender disparity by encouraging women to apply for jobs and matching them with executives and head writers.