Brett Paesel is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, “Mommies Who Drink: Sex, Drugs, and Other Distant Memories of an Ordinary Mom.” She has also written pilots for ABC, HBO, Fox, Comedy Central, Lifetime, WB, and Nick at Nite. Brett hails from Chicago where she taught at The Annoyance. She was also a cast member of HBO’s “Mr. Show with Bob and David.”