About Janine Ditullio
Janine Ditullio was an American screenwriter.
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, 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 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.
Ditullio is also the founder of Chirpbug, an interactive online technology. Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk Series Winner 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program Nominee
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program Nominee
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Program Nominee 2001 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Program Nominee Year Show Role
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