Late Show co-executive producer Emily Lazar calls the unconventional lineup shots—and she’s changing the late-night landscape.
So far, Stephen Colbert has not completely re-wired the late-night television machine with his particular brand of arch, sharp comedy. He still knows how to go star-powered clip to star-powered clip with the viral-mad Jimmys—Fallon and Kimmel—by, say, pondering life’s mysteries with Scarlett Johansson or “silly walking” with Lupita Nyong’o. And his writing staff, as with many shows, is rather light on female talent.
