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Author Zweibel, Alan, author, narrator.

Title Laugh lines : my life helping funny people be funnier / Alan Zweibel ; foreword by Billy Crystal.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, [2020]
℗2020

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  CD BOOK B ZWEIBEL ALAN    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 7 audio discs (8 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (PDF; 4 3/4 in.)
Playing Time 080000
Description digital rdatr
optical rdarm
1.4 m/s
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CD audio
Note Title from container.
"Includes a PDF with photos and more!"--Container
Performer Read by the author.
Contents 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).
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.
Subject Zweibel, Alan.
Television comedy writers -- United States -- Biography.
Television comedies -- United States.
Zweibel, Alan. (OCoLC)fst00127626
Television comedies. (OCoLC)fst01146832
Television comedy writers. (OCoLC)fst01146838
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Audiobooks.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Crystal, Billy, writer of foreword.
ISBN 9781799918301 (audiobook)
1799918300 (audiobook)
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