Late Night And What’s Making Us Happy
Late Night And What’s Making Us Happy
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In the movie Late Night, Mindy Kaling plays Molly Patel, a woman who gets her big break in the writers’ room of late night host Katherine Newbury. Newbury, played by Emma Thompson, is on thin ice with the network and wants to add Molly as a way of diversifying her very white and very male writing staff. But once Molly gets there, she finds that being considered a diversity hire comes with challenges of its own. Late Night also features John Lithgow, Denis O’Hare, and Reid Scott.