Alan Zweibel Knows Funny

An original Saturday Night Live writer, ALAN ZWEIBEL has won five Emmy Awards for his work in television, which also includes It’s Garry Shandling’s Show (which he co-created and produced), The Late Show with David Letterman and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

A frequent guest on all the late-night talk shows, Alan’s theatrical contributions include his collaboration with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award winning play “700 Sundays,” Martin Short’s Broadway hit “Fame Becomes Me,” and six off-Broadway plays including “Bunny Bunny – Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy,” which he adapted from his best-selling book.

All told, Zweibel has written eleven books including his cultural memoir titled “Laugh Lines – My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier,” published by Abrams Books; the 2006 Thurber Prize winning novel “The Other Shulman;” the popular children’s book “Our Tree Named Steve;” and a parody of the Haggadah — “For This We Left Egypt?” which he wrote with Dave Barry and Adam Mansbach. He has also penned a best-selling e-book, “From My Bottom Drawer.”

Zweibel’s humor has appeared in such diverse publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Op-Ed page, The Huffington Post, Air Mail Weekly, and MAD Magazine.

The co-writer of screenplays for the films “Dragnet,” “North,” and “The Story of Us,” Zweibel’s most recent movie is “Here Today,” a film he co-wrote with Billy Crystal (who also directs and stars alongside Tiffany Haddish) that can be seen on Amazon Prime and Apple TV, among other platforms.

In addition to talk shows, Zweibel has appeared in episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Law & Order and can be seen in the documentary “The Last Laugh” about humor and the Holocaust; Judd Apatow’s “Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling” (HBO), “Gilbert” about the life of Gilbert Gottfried, “Remembering Gene Wilder” (Netflix), and the Emmy nominated CNN documentary he executive produced titled “Love, Gilda.”  He is also an ensemble performer at New York’s Triad Theater in Celebrity Autobiography — and is a highly sought-after keynote speaker.

Among his numerous awards, Zweibel also received an honorary doctorate in 2009 from the State University of New York.  And the following year, the Writers Guild of America East honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award for the diversity of his body of work.

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