Janine Ditullio is an American comedy writer, voice actress, and stand-up comedian. She has been nominated for six Emmy Awards and won two Writers Guild of America Awards for her writing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien .
Career As a stand-up comedian from Massachusetts, Ditullio has performed in the Boston area, including at the Catch a Rising Star club, several Boston First Night events, the Comedy Studio, and a fundraiser with Paula Poundstone, Jimmy Tingle, and Jonathan Katz for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. In New York City, she twice performed at the King Sized Laundromat and Dry Cleaners during Spin Cycle Comedy evenings in the late 1990s.
In 1994, Ditullio joined The Jon Stewart Show as a writer, and in 1995, then became a writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien. She was the first woman hired as a writer at each show. She was a writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien until 2001, and part of the team that wrote the nightly monologue. She also wrote for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from May through November 2010.
She was also the voice of Paula Small in the animated series Home Movies, replacing the original voice actress, Paula Poundstone. She played a scientist who stabs monkeys on the Onion News Network."Study: Multiple Stab Wounds May Be Harmful To Monkeys" . Onion News Network. accessed September 29, 2011. In 2012, she joined Superjail! as the writing director. Ditullio wrote the Metalocalypse episode "Dethmas" with show creator Brendon Small, along with several other scripts for seasons three and four of the series.
Both Ditullio and her writing partner Kelly Kimball served as co-executive producers on the short lived ABC series My Kind of Town starring Johnny Vaughan.
Ditullio is also the founder of Chirpbug, an interactive online technology.
Awards and honors +Ditullio's awardsYearShowAwardResultRef.1996Late Night with Conan O'Brien Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music ProgramNomineeWriters Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk SeriesWinner1997Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music ProgramNominee1998Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music ProgramNomineeWriters Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk SeriesShortlist1999Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music ProgramNomineeWriters Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk SeriesWinner2000Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy ProgramNomineeWriters Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk SeriesShortlist2001Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy ProgramNominee
Filmography +Ditullio filmographyYearShowRoleNotes1994–1995The Jon Stewart ShowWriter5 episodes1995–2001Late Night with Conan O'Brien Writer464 episodes2001Home Movies Writer7 episodes2001–2004Home Movies Actress: Paula Small47 episodes2005My Kind of TownHead writer5 episodes2010Late Night with Jimmy FallonWriter84 episodes2009–2010MetalocalypseWriter14 episodes2012Superjail!Writer4 episodes2012Totally Biased with W. Kamau BellProducer2 episodes
References
External links Chirpbug The Daily Show History