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Laugh lines : my life helping funny people be funnier : a cultural memoir / Alan Zweibel.

Zweibel, Alan, (author.).

Summary:

An Emmy Award-winning original Saturday Night Live writer draws on personal memories and interviews with such contemporaries as Eric Idle and Dave Barry in a cultural memoir that includes discussions of the creative process behind classic skits.
Zweibel started his comedy career selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to the last of the Borscht Belt standups. One night he caught the attention of Lorne Michaels and became one of the first writers at Saturday Night Live, where he penned classic material for the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players. He went on to have a hand in a series of landmark shows. Here Zweibel weaves together his own stories and interviews with his friends and contemporaries to create a warmhearted cultural memoir of American comedy. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

  • ISBN: 1419735284
  • ISBN: 9781419735288
  • Physical Description: xviii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Abrams Press, 2020.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / by Billy Crystal -- Preface -- The Catskills comics (writing for the wrong people) -- The club year (a large Jew sweating) -- Saturday Night Live (the early part of the early years) -- Saturday Night Live (the later part of the early years) -- Former SNL writer (looking for new voices) -- Lightning strikes again (It's Garry Shandling's Show) -- Good sports (writing for the wrong people... again) -- Crashing and burning in another genre (north goes south) -- Bunny bunny (even in death, Gilda saves my ass) -- 700 Sundays (Billy Crystal and the rise of the one-man show) -- Unfinished business (saying goodbye to Garry) -- Another kind of collaboration (Dave Barry and others who spend their days alone) -- Giant shadows (lessons from heroes) -- In progress (here today).

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Allentown Public Library 791.45092 ZWEI (Text) 34455006740175 Adult Nonfiction 1st FL Available -
Bethlehem Main Library 791.45 (Text) 33062009322430 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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