# Janine Ditullio

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. 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 awards :
| Year | Show | Award | Result |
| 1996 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program | Nominee |
| 1996 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk Series | Winner |
| 1997 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program | Nominee |
| 1998 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program | Nominee |
| 1998 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk Series | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program | Nominee |
| 1999 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk Series | Winner |
| 2000 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Program | Nominee |
| 2000 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk Series | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Program | Nominee |

## Filmography

Ditullio filmography :
| Year | Show | Role | Notes |
| 1994–1995 | The Jon Stewart Show | Writer | 5 episodes |
| 1995–2001 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Writer | 464 episodes |
| 2001 | Home Movies | Writer | 7 episodes |
| 2001–2004 | Home Movies | Actress: Paula Small | 47 episodes |
| 2005 | My Kind of Town | Head writer | 5 episodes |
| 2010 | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Writer | 84 episodes |
| 2009–2010 | Metalocalypse | Writer | 14 episodes |
| 2012 | Superjail! | Writer | 4 episodes |
| 2012 | Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell | Producer | 2 episodes |