I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.

She wrote about the relationship several years later in essays in the book Cool Calm and Contentious though Merrill Markoe gave him the psuedonym "Bobby". In 1980 Markoe was the original head writer for The David Letterman Show a short-lived live NBC morning show whose writing team was recognized with a Daytime Emmy Award. She appears in episode 2 of Friends as Marsha the irritable museum curator and can be seen in the movie EDTV as a panelist as well as in the cast of The Aristocrats.