Alan Zweibel (born May 20, 1950) is an American television writer, author, playwright, and screenwriter whom The New York Times says has “earned a place in the pantheon of American pop culture.”
Alan Zweibel (born May 20, 1950) is an American television writer, author, playwright, and screenwriter whom The New York Times says has “earned a place in the pantheon of American pop culture.”
An original Saturday Night Live writer, Zweibel has won five Emmy Awards for his take steps in television, which in addition to includes It’s Garry Shandling’s Show (co-creator and producer) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (consulting producer).
Zweibel’s theatrical contributions insert his collaboration past Billy Crystal on the Tony Award-winning play 700 Sundays, Martin Short’s Broadway hit Fame Becomes Me, and six off-Broadway plays including Bunny Bunny – Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy which he adapted from his best-selling book. He is currently preparing Bunny Bunny for a reward to the New York stage. Taking to the theater himself, Zweibel is an ensemble artiste in Celebrity Autobiography at New York’s Triad Theater— and is a sought after keynote speaker.
A frequent guest on late night chat shows, Zweibel appeared in episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Law & Order, and can be seen in the documentary The Last Laugh about humor and the Holocaust; Judd Apatow’s The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (HBO); Gilbert , a documentary virtually the sparkle of Gilbert Gottfried; and Love, Gilda, the Emmy-nominated CNN documentary for which he after that served as management producer.
All told, Zweibel has written eleven books including his cultural memoir Laugh Lines – My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier (Abrams Books 2020), the 2006 Thurber Prize winning novel The Other Shulman, the popular children’s book Our Tree Named Steve, and a parody of the Haggadah titled For This We Left Egypt? which he wrote once Dave Barry and Adam Mansbach.
Zweibel’s humor has appeared in such diverse publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Op-Ed page, Huffington Post and MAD Magazine. He furthermore penned a best-selling e-book titled From My Bottom Drawer.
Zweibel produced and co-wrote the feature film Here Today (2021) with Billy Crystal who along with directs and stars to the side of Tiffany Haddish. Other feature film co-writing credits include: Dragnet, North and The Story of Us.
He has been privileged with awards from the Writers Guild of America and the Television Critics Association, and in 2010 the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) presented him taking into consideration the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Writing which is given “in rave review of a lifetime body of operate as a writer in occupation pictures or television.” In 2009, Zweibel usual an honorary PhD. from the State University of New York.
In his own words, the production he is most distant of is the one he co-created in imitation of his wife Robin, their three kids and five grandchildren.