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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

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

There's a new book coming out about Saturday Night Live. Mark and Alan talk about the aspects of the Super bowl that make it great. Alan explains what he has been working on recently.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're looking for Alan's Weibel. We'll find him. Oh, we got him. We got him. The great writer, producer, comedian. Of course, known for Saturday Night Live. Curb Your enthusiasm, a million shows and movies. And he's got a great book called Laugh Lines, all about his life in comedy. Make sure you follow Alan's Weibel on Twitter, and even better as Instagram is very good.

0:22.1

Alan's Whitebell, how you doing?

0:24.2

I'm great, Mark.

0:25.1

How are you doing?

0:26.0

Good.

0:26.4

So here's another book coming out about Saturday Night Live, Lauren Michaels, 50 years.

0:31.4

Did you ever think you'd see all this stuff, books, movies, documentaries, all at once coming out?

0:36.7

Well, you know something?

0:38.3

When it's 50 years, it's such an overwhelmingly huge number.

0:45.4

Yes, I didn't think that, first, but the most important part of that is,

0:49.6

who would have ever thought last half of the story?

0:52.4

So it's like all coming together, like the book about Lauren, the 50th anniversary show, all the

0:58.9

press we're doing, the Saturday night movie that Jason Reitman did.

1:03.6

It's just an avalanche of all of it.

1:06.2

Okay, but when Meet the Press 50 years, I think a pamphlet came out.

1:09.6

That was about it.

1:10.1

Nothing happened.

1:14.4

Yeah. And I think that the Today Show had a brochure. You're absolutely right. So, hey, tell us about

1:23.1

Lauren Michaels, because other people have tried to do this. can't do it what was it about him that only

1:28.3

he had the right radar for picking stuff and knowing what to do um that is i think um among all of his

1:37.3

talents the greatest one is um knowing uh talent when he sees it in other people you know there's a four-part series that's on um

1:49.1

uh i think peacock right now yeah about the okay four four parts and the first part is the actors

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