Janine Ditullio

As a stand-up comedian from Massachusetts, Ditullio has performed in the Boston area, including at the Catch a Rising Star club,^[1][2] several Boston First Night events,^[2] the Comedy Studio,^[3] and a fundraiser with Paula Poundstone, Jimmy Tingle, and Jonathan Katz for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.^[4] In New York City, she twice performed at the King Sized Laundromat and Dry Cleaners during Spin Cycle Comedy evenings in the late 1990s.^[5]

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.^[6][7] She was the first woman hired as a writer at each show.^[6] She was a writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien until 2001,^[7] and part of the team that wrote the nightly monologue.^[2] She also wrote for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from May through November 2010.^[7]

She was also the voice of Paula Small in the animated series Home Movies, replacing the original voice actress, Paula Poundstone.^[7][8][9] She played a scientist who stabs monkeys on the Onion News Network.^[10] In 2012, she joined Superjail! as the writing director.^[11] Ditullio wrote the Metalocalypse episode "Dethmas" with show creator Brendon Small, along with several other scripts for seasons three and four of the series.^[12]

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.^[13]

Ditullio is also the founder of Chirpbug, an interactive online technology.^[7]