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JUST because Craig Kilborn's piggish behavior drove Lizz Winstead to quit
Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," who says he needs a lecture on sex
harassment? In December, host Kilborn was suspended from the show without pay
for a week after remarking of head writer Winstead in Esquire, "There are a lot
of bitches on the staff ... If I wanted her to b--- me, she would." He later
apologized, but Winstead quit anyway, saying she could no longer do her job
"feeling the animosity that I felt reading the Esquire article." As a source
told us at the time, that wasn't the first time Kilborn was disciplined over
inappropriate sexual comments to staffers. Now a source reports that Comedy
Central recently held an in-house seminar on sexual harassment - but Kilborn
wasn't required to attend, and didn't. "We did a human resources presentation
to "The Daily Show' and other production crews," says network rep Tony Fox,
"but sexual harassment was only one of 18 subjects covered, from our smoking
policy to equal opportunity employment. It wasn't a mandatory meeting, and I
don't know who attended." In any case, they're trying to move past the Winstead
business. This week, they hired a new head writer, Chris Kreski from MTV, to
replace her, and, for her part, Winstead has said she's mulling several offers
from the networks.
Copyright 1998 New York Post
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