Bess Kalb is an Emmy-nom­i­nat­ed writer for Jim­my Kim­mel Live. Her writ­ing for the show earned her a Writer’s Guild Award in 2016. She has also writ­ten for the Oscars and the Emmys. A reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to The New York­er​’s ​“Dai­ly Shouts,” her work has been pub­lished in The New Repub­lic, Grant­land, Salon​.com, Wired, The Nation, and elsewhere.