| Bill Scheft | |
| Birth Place: | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Comedy, fiction |
Bill Scheft (born February 15, 1957, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American comedy writer and novelist. He is best known[1] for being a staff writer for David Letterman[2] from 1991 to 2015, during which time he was nominated for 15 Emmy awards. He ran a weekly humor column "The Show" in Sports Illustrated from 2002 to 2005. A collection of his columns, Best of "The Show", was published by Warner Books in 2005.
Scheft is the author of five novels: The Ringer (2002), Time Won't Let Me (2005), Everything Hurts (2009), Shrink Thyself (2014) and Tommy Dash: Was It Everything I Said?(2022). Time Won't Let Me was a finalist for the 2006 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Both The Ringer and Everything Hurts have been optioned for film.
Scheft has also contributed humor essays to The New Yorker, Salon and Air Mail.
Scheft is the nephew of the late Herbert Warren Wind, the legendary golf and profile writer for The New Yorker and Sports Illustrated. In 2011, he co-edited and wrote a foreword for the collection, America's Gift to Golf: Herbert Warren Wind on The Masters. Scheft graduated from Harvard College in 1979 with honors. He was married to comedian Adrianne Tolsch for 26 years before her death on December 7, 2016.