Hey, Alan Zwebel is the great writer-producer, best-selling author, his book Laughlines, his life in comedy,

you'll love this book, you can get everything at allenswebel.com and follow them on Twitter and

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Alan Zybel, how you doing?

Hey, Mark, how are you?

Very good.

Hey, you were also a big part of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

The final season is coming. can you reveal anything about it you know i know very little larry is very secretive about it

and but you know something even if i did know he'd kill me if i told anybody but the fact is my

conscience is clean i i i don I know very, very little.

But I know, you know, I'm very good friends with Susie Asman and Larry, of course, and I know

they're very excited about it. Yeah. We're talking about the Sopranos the other day, 25-year

anniversary. That was really the first big streaming show that was a hit, and that changed everything. Like nowadays, if you came up with a show, you wouldn't even think to pitch it to the major networks, right? You'd go to a streaming place. Well, that's really, really right. You know, I sit home, you know, and I have TV on when I'm writing. It's just like white noise

in the room, okay, for ambiance. I fell upon the Sopranos, the marathon. I didn't do any work.

I just watched and watched and watched. And God, was it good? And in answer to your question,

yeah, it used to be the networks, and then it became cable, and now

it's streaming, and it's like, what you call it, if you, it's almost like if it's on the net,

you back into the network.

Even your agents, when you tell them an idea you have, they go, oh, that would be great for

Hulu, that would be great for Netflix, go, oh, that would be great for Hulu.

That would be great for Netflix.

Oh, yeah, that would be good for ABC.

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