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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Interview Writer / Producer Alan Zweibel

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Alan discuss how many of the SNL bits he wrote would not make the air now because of the WOKE crowd. They also covered why writers like working for streaming networks more than traditional.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, Alan Zybel, of course, the great writer-producer.

0:04.7

You can, you've seen him on Kirby Enthusiasm.

0:07.2

He's a Saturday Night Live.

0:08.4

He writes a lot of great best-selling books.

0:10.5

Go to Amazon or wherever and get Alan Zybel's books and follow him on, great on Instagram and Twitter.

0:19.1

Alan's Wyebel.

0:19.9

How you doing?

0:21.3

I'm great, Mark.

0:22.2

How are you doing?

0:23.6

Hey, your last book was great, but didn't the,

0:25.8

wasn't that the one, the book tour got interrupted by lockdowns and all that?

0:30.7

Oh, God.

0:31.6

It was, it was horrible, Mark, because what had happened was the book came out,

0:36.4

and Larry David and I was

0:39.6

scheduled to be in conversation in person in a venue in Los Angeles that held about 1,100

0:45.9

people, right?

0:47.4

And Louis Black and the same thing here at the 92nd Streetwide, 900 people.

0:52.9

All of a sudden, that all gets wiped out. It becomes virtual.

0:57.6

So I spent more time in sweats and in my underwear, on book, just talking into computer,

1:06.7

and you see people in their homes, you know.

1:11.1

And I saw, you know, while I was talking and trying to sell my book, I see women knitting.

1:16.4

I see cats on the people's laps.

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