Alan Zweibel Talks About His 50 Year Long Comedy Writing Career: From Selling $7 Jokes To SNL & Many Feature Films

Bob Saget's Here For You

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🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Comedy writer, author, and playwright, Alan Zweibel shares a laugh with Bob as they explore how their careers took them from working behind the deli counter to making audiences around the world laugh. Alan recalls over 50 years of writing for comedians, coming up into old school show business, and talks about how he was discovered by Lorne Michaels.

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0:00.0	It takes two vaccines to help protect you this season, one for the flu and another for COVID-19.
0:15.0	And according to the CDC, now you can get both shots at the same visit.
0:23.0	Talk to your healthcare professional or visit CDC.gov slash vaccines to learn more.
0:30.0	Hey, it's me, it's Bob Sagitt, right?
0:34.0	And this is Bob Sagitt's here for you.
0:36.0	This is a podcast that I've been doing for over a year and over a hundred episodes
0:41.0	and really just starting to figure it out.
0:44.0	So I hope you're doing good. It's been a crazy world.
0:47.0	My friend George Wallace, that was his slogan.
0:51.0	I have a great guest today. It's Alan's White Bell.
0:54.0	I love Alan's White Bell.
0:56.0	If you don't know who Alan's White Bell is, you will.
0:59.0	Because we're going to have a nice long conversation because that's what we do.
1:02.0	He's a brilliant writer.
1:04.0	He was working on the first five years of Saturday Night Live from its very inception.
1:11.0	He wrote things for Gilder Radner, Rosanne Rosanna Dana.
1:16.0	A lot of her stuff, a dear friend of hers, and wrote a book, Bunny Bunny, which became a play.
1:22.0	And his love and friendship with her is just, he's a man with compassion and with comedy and with soul.
1:29.0	He also wrote the samurai sketches on Saturday Night Live with John Belushi,
1:35.0	just to start comedy man.
1:37.0	And he also has done so many films.
1:42.0	I love the story of us. He's a new film that's coming out.
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