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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Interviews Writer Alan Zweibel.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mark asks Alan how come the streaming shows move so slow nowadays? Alan explains the behind-the-scenes action of writing, for upcoming scenes and lines for a show. Alan has something new he is working on, what could it be?

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0:00.0

Mr. New York.

0:01.9

Hey, that's Mark Sloan.

0:03.3

710 W.O.R.

0:06.4

Well, Alan Zwebel is the great producer, writer, comedian, author.

0:11.4

He should get his book, Laugh Laph Lines.

0:12.9

Great book about his life and comedy.

0:14.7

And he's been behind some of the greatest shows ever from Seinfeld,

0:18.6

the Gary Shandling Show, to curb your enthusiasm. And he's with us right now. Alan Zwebel, how you doing? Hi, Mark. How you doing? Good. All right. Now, here's the big topic. I want you to explain this to me. In the good old days, we all saw the same TV show. We all watched Seinfeld. Next day, we all talked about the soup Nazi. Now, streaming, nobody watches

0:38.6

the same thing. They tell you, oh, you got to watch White Loaded. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable.

0:43.0

I start watching it. It's so slow. And then I tell her, too slow. And they go, yeah, if you've got to get

0:49.3

to the three or four episodes, then it gets good. What the hell kind of writing is that?

0:54.1

Well, you know, know something as a viewer

0:57.0

it does become discouraging and you know i never wrote to sinfeld i watched it okay and i enjoyed it a lot

1:04.3

was created by my friend larry david and uh people would watch sinfeld people would i SNL, and they'd talk about it the next day

1:13.9

or Monday at the water cooler, because everybody was doing the same thing at the same time.

1:19.4

And you're absolutely right.

1:20.9

I mean, my wife and I, we just, what did we just watch?

1:25.3

Oh, God, it's called Adolescence.

1:27.4

It's on Netflix.

1:28.7

It's four episodes.

1:30.4

And I don't know if you've seen it, but it's about a boy in a family who is accused

1:36.3

of killing a schoolmate.

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