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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

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Alan tells Mark how in show business sometimes you have to break up two colleagues from going at each other, like the Trump and Musk fight. Everyone has a podcast or a new book out nowadays, what does Alan think of that?

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0:00.0

Here's more Mark Simone on 710 W.O.R.

0:05.0

Well, Alan Zweibel, the great writer, producer.

0:09.0

You should get his latest book, Laugh-LafLines, great stories about his career,

0:13.0

and he's been involved with some of the biggest shows,

0:15.0

Saturday Night Live and Curb Your Enthusiasm and a long, long list

0:19.0

and great Broadway shows. Alan'sweybel, how you doing?

0:23.3

I'm great, Mark. How you doing?

0:24.9

I'm good. Hey, everybody's having fun with the Elon Musk Trump fight, but you've spent...

0:29.6

You've spent your whole life in show business. You must have seen some of the greatest

0:35.0

fights between two stars backstage. How many times have you been through that?

0:39.6

Well, you see it a lot and you can't figure out why, because it's all ego-driven.

0:48.0

It's trivialities.

0:50.1

And, you know, when we were growing up and we were on the playground, I don't know if you're

0:56.1

familiar with this expression when you were growing up, you would insult kids, we would call

1:01.2

you you're ranking them out, okay?

1:03.6

That was like a playground term, and that's what's going on between these two guys.

1:08.6

You know, Trump just said, well, I'm selling my Tesla.

1:12.4

You know, this is like ridiculous.

1:14.8

But when you say a producer, people say, well, what does a producer actually do?

1:17.4

How many times did you get called down to the set?

1:19.3

Because the two big stars are ready to kill each other.

1:21.5

And you have to do that.

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