ALAN ZWEIBEL

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Bunny Bunny: A Sort of a Love Story
NY Daily News Alan Zweibel Billy Crystal
NY Daily News Alan Zweibel Billy Crystal
NY Daily News Alan Zweibel Billy Crystal

NY Daily News Alan Zweibel Billy Crystal

NY Daily News Alan Zweibel Billy Crystal

NY Daily News Alan Zweibel Billy Crystal

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Alan Zweibel Roger Ebert Here Today

By Donald Liebenson  May 7, 2021

Billy Crystal’s “Here Today” charts the beginning of a beautiful friendship. The film is the result of another.

Crystal co-wrote the screenplay with Alan Zweibel, with whom he last collaborated on Crystal’s Tony-winning one-man show, 700 Sundays. But their friendship dates back almost 50 years to when the two twenty-somethings were aspiring stand-up comedians, carpooling from Long Island into Manhattan for gigs…

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Alan Zweibel -- "Best New Books" People Magazine

COLLECTOR’S EDITION PEOPLE MAGAZINE (Fall 2020) 

45 YEARS OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE – FIRST PERSON

By Lisa Russell

Veteran Comedy Writer and SNL Alum Alan Zweibel — author of the new memoir LAUGH LINES: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier — talked to People about being on the ground floor for the creation of a TV classic.

Alan Zweibel Saturday Night Live

Comedy Tonight: ‘S.N.L.’ Then and Now

May 29, 2020

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In “Laugh Lines,” Zweibel looks back, affectionately and informatively, at a career that began when he was a young deli worker grinding out jokes for old-school borscht belt comedians in his spare time, and that, after his “S.N.L.” years, included rewarding collaborations with, among others, Garry Shandling, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Larry David and Dave Barry.

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Garry Shandling and Alan Zweibel

How Alan Zweibel Made a Career of Helping People Be Funnier

 May 28, 2020

 By Steven Gaydos

 Alan Zweibel clearly knows funny. He’s accrued multiple Emmy wins and nominations for his time on the comedy writing teams of “Saturday Night Live” and “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,”

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Alan Zweibel -- "Best New Books" People Magazine

THE BEST NEW BOOKS

April 27, 2020

“It’s the medicine we can all use right now” — People 

E! Online selected Laugh Lines as one of the “10 Books Celebrities Love

April 6, 2020 

By Caroline Lehmann 

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Alan Zweibel Vanity Fair

Alan Zweibel Is Your Favorite Comic’s Secret Weapon

April 13. 2020

By Donald Liebenson  

A chat with the writer who penned punchlines for the original cast of Saturday Night Live, survived Roger Ebert’s most devastating burn, and may be the only guy in the biz to have been flashed by both Farrah Fawcett and Milton Berle.   

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Q&A Top Pick 

May 31, 2020

“Laugh Lines” is the candid, big-hearted story of a comedian’s comic.

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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… 

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‘SNL’ writer’s memoir co-stars Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner

May 8, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — You may not know it, but if you treasure the early years of “Saturday Night Live” or are a fan of “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” or “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Alan Zweibel makes you laugh.

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‘Let’s Just Make Each Other Laugh’: Inside the Chaotic First Week of SNL

In an excerpt from his new book “Laugh Lines,” original SNL writer Alan Zweibel remembers what it was like at the very beginning.

“Let’s just make each other laugh. And if we do, we’ll put it on television. . . 

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