Bill Scheft
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Bill Scheft (born February 15, 1957, Boston) is an American comedy writer and novelist. He is best known[1] for being a staff writer for David Letterman[2] since 1991, during which time he has been nominated for 15 Emmy awards. He ran a weekly humor column "The Show" in Sports Illustrated from 2002 to 2005. A collection of his columns, The Best of "The Show", was published by Warner Books in 2005.
Scheft is the author of three novels: The Ringer (2002), Time Won't Let Me (2005) and Everything Hurts (April, 2009, Simon and Schuster). Time Won't Let Me was a finalist for the 2006 Thurber Prize for American Humor. The Ringer has been optioned for a film based on Scheft's adapted screenplay.
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- ^ Allan, Marc (August 19, 2009). "Bill Scheft: Keeping Letterman (and us) laughing". Nuvo. http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/bill-scheft-keeping-letterman-and-us-laughing/Content?oid=1273434. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
- ^ Ward, Kate (Sep 18 2010). "Letterman writer claimed host knew about Joaquin Phoenix hoax". ew.com. http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/09/18/letterman-writer-joaquin-im-still-here/. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
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