'The Fix Is In!': My Year of BET, T. J. Holmes, and Working In Late-Night TV

I was the first black woman to lead a writer’s room in late-night, but unfortunately, no one knows that because my show crashed and burned, but that failure taught me my biggest lesson: screwing up is part of success.

'The Fix Is In!': My Year of BET, T. J. Holmes, and Working In Late-Night TV
T. J. Holmes and I, The Snob, in a sweater I would never wear again, while good ol' executive producer and co-creator of The Daily Show, Madeleine Smithberg, looks on during the taping of "Don't Sleep's" unaired pilot in Los Angeles, Calif. (BELTON / 2011)