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Encyclopedia > Alan Zweibel

Alan Zweibel (born 1950 is a producer and writer on such productions as Saturday Night Live, PBS' Great Performances, and It's Garry Shandling's Show. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC nearly every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... Great Performances was a television series devoted to the performing arts which ran on the US television station PBS from 1972. ... Its Garry Shandlings Show is one of the first original programs created by the fledgling Showtime network in the mid-80s to compete with original HBO comedies like Not Necessarily the News. ...


Born in Brooklyn, Alan Zweibel grew up in Woodmere, New York and graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in 1968 and The University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1972. A map of New York City, highlighting Brooklyn. ... Woodmere is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located in Nassau County, New York. ... George W. Hewlett High School (commonly known as Hewlett High School) is a high school in Hewlett, New York, which is a part of the Five Towns. ... University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (also known as the State University of New York at Buffalo or SUNY-Buffalo and abbreviated as UB) is located in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. ...


He co-wrote the movie Dragnet, and articles for magazines such as Mad, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly[1] Dragnet is a 1987 film starring Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Dabney Coleman, Harry Morgan, and Alexandra Paul. ... Harvey Kurtzmans cover for the first issue of the comic book Mad Mad is an American humor magazine founded by publisher William Gaines and editor Harvey Kurtzman in 1952. ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry, and fiction. ... February 1862 edition of The Atlantic Monthly, with The Battle Hymn of the Republic on the front page. ...


On SNL, he helped to create the characters of Roseanne Roseannadanna and Emily Litella - both played by Gilda Radner. In fact, on Weekend Update, Radner read letters from Richard Feder who in real life is Zweibel's brother in law and does in fact live in Fort Lee, New Jersey[2]. Gilda Radners Live From New York LP cover Gilda Radner (28 June 1946 – 20 May 1989) was an American comedian and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live. ... Map highlighting Fort Lees location within Bergen County. ...

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  1. ^ The Story of Us: Alan Zwiebel, accessed October 3, 2006
  2. ^ Once again, Ft. Lee is writer's fodder, The Record (Bergen County), July 8, 2005

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Alan Zweibel (Bruno Kirby) and Gilda Radner (Paula Cale) meet and become friends in 1975, when he is a novice gag writer and she is a novice company member at Saturday Night Live.
It's a sweet and touching story, which Alan Zweibel (the real one, that is) turned into a volume of reminiscences in dialogue form called Bunny Bunny, and which he has now turned into a play, receiving its premiere at the Philadelphia Theatre Company.
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Alan Zweibel, B.A. ’72, is a ground-breaking comedy writer who was part of the original Saturday Night Live writing team from 1975 to 1980, and later went on to reinvent the sitcom with It’s Garry Shandling’s Show in 1987.
Zweibel’s discovery came after his UB years when he was toiling in a New York deli and doing a stand-up comedy routine after work.
Zweibel is proof that the “big stroke” has sustained more than 25 years of an innovative style that continues to inspire new crops of laugh scribes, including the Comedy Writers Club that was recently formed on campus.
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