We hadn't yet had an opportunity to snuggle up to Oscar™ Nominated® Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody until David Letterman had her on his show last night, and dare we say the young scribe handled herself with admirable aplomb as she took late night's hottest seat. In a rack-flattering leopard-skin dress, Cody—offering echoes of Lisa Simpson, Bettie Page, and the chick who snatched that last red pepper hummus from us at the Hyperion Trader Joe's—self-deprecatingly relayed all the Oscar-morning excitement, and in the process helped to usher "the buttcrack of dawn" into the popular lexicon. (While "taint of night," sadly, remains fated to the vernacular fringes.)

Letterman chortled with genuine amusement as she described how working as a phone sex operator enhanced her dramaturgy skills, though bristled perhaps when Cody finally pushed the envelope a little too far by cheekily describing herself as having become a "total asshole" and "obscenely wealthy" since moving to L.A.—a curious choice of jest, as if speaking the words out loud could somehow offer one immunity from the hazardous byproducts of Hollywood success.