here's more mark simone on seventeen w o r well alan zybel is one of our greatest comedy

writers producers uh you should get his book by the way he's book is laugh lines great

autobiography laugh lines you'll love it and oh you can see him he's going to be uh in conversation

with eric idl at symphony space october 8th that sounds

like it's a million years october 8th i hate to break it these only a few weeks from now but symphony

space eric idol with allans why bell you're going to love that and he's with us right now

alan's why bell how you doing i'm doing great mark how. How are you? I'm good. I'm good.

I don't even know where to start.

Hey, how come you've written a million things, movies, TV shows, TV series, S&L.

I don't usually watch primetime anymore.

I started last night, I said, let me watch primetime TV.

It's all game shows now.

What happened? It's all game shows now. What happened?

It's all game shows, just like most of the movies look like huge video games.

You know, it's a different kind of entertainment.

You know, it's more difficult in the movies to get something that's character-driven and plot-driven,

you know, what we're used to, having grown up and well into our adulthood, you know,

the independent film companies are making those, but as far as the studios are concerned,

by and large, there are these big, dazzling kind of gazillion dollar of productions yeah

but uh the viewership of network tv primetime has shrunk just shrunk and shrunk so they can't spend

like blue bloods is like the number one show and they're going to cancel it because they can't afford

car chases and it's expensive to do a drama. Easier to put on password, isn't it?

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