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LAUGH LINES: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier. Alan’s latest book is a tender, funny memoir of four decades in the business — beginning with selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to the last of the Borscht Belt standups— to becoming one of the first writers at Saturday Night Live, where he penned classic material for Gilda Radner ...
Alan Zweibel (born May 20, 1950 [1]) is an American producer and writer. He was one of the original writers on Saturday Night Live. [2] He and Garry Shandling were the co-creators of Showtime's It's Garry Shandling's Show. [3] Zweibel was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn and grew up in suburbs of Wantagh and Woodmere on Long Island.
By Alan Zweibel, September 18, 1992. So here’s what happened the first time I met Roger Ebert. The Friars Club was roasting Billy Crystal and, because I’d written a few jokes for this verbal onslaught, I was in the ballroom of the New York Hilton that afternoon. As was Roger Ebert, who, along with his much thinner partner, Gene Siskel ...
Humor Writer of the Month: Alan Zweibel. June 2020. Alan Zweibel is a comedy writing legend whose memoir, Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier, is receiving well-deserved acclaim. It’s included in People magazine’s “The Best New Books” section and earned a positive review in The New York Times this weekend….
11. Okt. 2019 · That was the unexpected job choice Alan Zweibel faced in 1975 when he was working in a New York deli and trying to make it as a joke writer. SNL was yet to debut — Zweibel didn't really know what it was — and Hollywood Squares was an established success. But the SNL job sounded like more fun, so he took it, and the rest, as they say, is ...
29. März 2016 · Alan Zweibel, co-creator with Garry Shandling of Showtime’s “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” remembers working with his friend and partner.
In his five-and-a-half-hour interview, Alan Zweibel talks about his early years, and becoming enamored with The Dick Van Dyke Show as a child. He recalls learning how to write jokes from watching shows like The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Dick Cavett Show, and coming up as a comedian with Richard Lewis and Larry David. He details at length his time as a writer for Saturday ...
