Nicole Savini

When Stephen made a reference to the fact that he only has one female writer, as he accepted his Emmy in August, for “Outstanding Variety Show”, he then apologized, “for some reason”. What I thought he was trying to say when he said that was actually more the opposite. I don’t think he should have to apologize at all. He has done nothing wrong. However, many people in the media seem to disagree judging by the number of recent articles commenting on that one line in his Emmy acceptance speech. So we here at the Hub have delved into this issue, analyzed it and here are the results. The opinions expressed in this piece are mine and not necessarily representative of Colbert News Hub as a whole.

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I was able to attend the talk that Nicole Savini gave last night at Boston University.

This is something that’s near and dear to my heart. Being from the Boston area and being a Communications major it was almost nostalgic, plus I love sitting in a room full of people who are talking about the show.

This was part of a series of talks called The Boston University Cinematheque series.

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Nicole Savini, a senior producer at ‘The Colbert Report’, talks to Boston University’s ‘BU Today’ about how she became interested in comedy, working for Stephen Colbert, the challenges of filming ‘The Colbert Report’, how tough and rewarding her profession can be, and gives advice to students thinking about pursuing a career in television comedy.

Nicole will also be speaking at ‘An Evening with Nicole Savini’ at Boston University’s College of Communication on Friday, March 21 at 7PM as part of the Cinematheque series, which is free and open to the public.

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The round-up from the weeks of November 23rd – December 6th, including Six Degrees news from; Jon Stewart, Aasif Mandvi, John Oliver, Hallie Haglund, Wyatt Cenac, Eric Drysdale, Glenn Eichler, Max Werner, Nicole Savini, Tim Meadows, Amy Sedaris, Conan O’Brien, David Sedaris, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Steve Carell.

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