In the late 1970s, before deciding to spend her life in smoky comedy clubs and cramped writers’ rooms, Henriette worked with Ralph Nader at his Center for Study of Responsive Law. Since then, she has been writer/producer on such shows as the Emmy Award-winning The Osbournes, and Michael Moore’s The Awful Truth, and a consultant for HBO's The Comeback. Henriette won her first Emmy for writing on Win Ben Stein’s Money. She has also appeared as an actress in many feature films and television comedies and, with Teri Garr, co-authored the book Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood.