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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#943634">Thanks Norm. This was a great book about the “early” days of comedy transforming from the borscht belt to SNL & beyond. Alan was right in the middle of it all.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#943634">PS: He just came out with a new movie with Billy Crystal called “Here Today”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#404040">Tom Gallin</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#404040"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Fredslist <fredslist-bounces@gothamnetworking.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Norman Spizz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 10, 2021 1:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> fredslist@gothamnetworking.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Fredslist] Don't forget to sign up for the May book event featuring Alan Zweibel.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thursday May 27 6PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Join us as we feature feature comedy Writer Alan Zweibel who will talk about his book and answer your questions. To fully enjoy this event I suggest that you read his book beforehand,
You can get it on Amazon directly or through a link on website alanzweibel.com. Sign up at
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Alan Zweibel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">An original “Saturday Night Live” writer, Alan has won five Emmy Awards for his work in television, which also includes “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” (which he co-created and produced) “The Late
Show With David Letterman” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">A frequent guest on all of the late night talk shows, Alan’s theatrical contributions include his collaboration with 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">All told, Alan has written eleven books including 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?” that he wrote with Dave Barry and Adam Mansbach.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Alan’s humor has also appeared in such diverse publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Op-Ed page, The Huffington Post and MAD Magazine. He has also penned
a best selling e-book titled “From My Bottom Drawer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">The co-writer of the screenplays for the films “Dragnet”, “North”, and “The Story of Us”, Alan has received an honorary PhD. from the State University of New York and because of the diversity of
his body or work, in 2010 the Writers Guild of America, East gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">In addition to the talk shows, Alan’s also appeared in episodes of “Curb Your</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Enthusiasm” and “Law & Order”, and can be seen in the documentary “The Last Laugh” about humor and the Holocaust; Judd Apatow’s “Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling,” on HBO, “Gilbert” about the life of Gilbert Gottfried
as well as the Emmy nominated CNN documentary he executive produced titled “Love, Gilda”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Alan is currently preparing “Bunny Bunny” for a return to the New York stage, his cultural memoir titled “Laugh Lines – My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier” was recently published by Abrams
Books and a movie he co-wrote with Billy Crystal titled “Here Today” that stars Crystal and Tiffany Haddish will be released later this year.
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