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In a weeklong journal for Slate, Late Night With Conan O'Brien writer Demetri Martin gives us an inside look at the nonstop action of the comedy writing workplace.

We returned to the head writer's office. His name is Mike. Each of us showed up with our celebrity survey jokes on paper. We put the papers on Mike's desk. He assembled the pile to read aloud.

The ones that make us laugh he marks. If there are enough of those, then we are done with celebrity surveys. If there are not enough funny ones, we go back to our offices and write some more for half an hour or so. Mike read them aloud. We went back to our offices to write for half an hour or so. We returned, Mike read the new batch. We finished with Celebrity Surveys.

He left out some very important parts of the comedy writer's day: eating too much junk food, playing with toys, and speculating about the contents of Courteney Cox's vagina.