Alan Zweibel

An orig­i­nal Sat­ur­day Night Live writer, Alan has won mul­ti­ple Emmy and Writ­ers Guild 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. 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 best­selling book. Alan has writ­ten eleven books includ­ing the 2006 Thurber Prize-win­ning nov­el The Oth­er Shul­man, the pop­u­lar chil­dren’s book Our Tree Named Steve, the nov­el Lunatics that he co-wrote with Dave Bar­ry, a par­o­dy of the Hag­gadah titled For This We Left Egypt? that he wrote with Dave Bar­ry and Adam Mans­bach, and most recent­ly, his upcom­ing cul­tur­al mem­oir Laugh Lines: My Life Help­ing Fun­ny Peo­ple Be Fun­nier (Abrams Press) on-sale April 14, 2020. 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. In 2010, Alan was giv­en an hon­orary Ph.D. from the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York, and because of the diver­si­ty of his body of work in 2013, the Writ­ers Guild of Amer­i­ca pre­sent­ed him with a life­time achieve­ment award. Alan is cur­rent­ly prepar­ing Bun­ny Bun­ny for a return to the New York stage, is devel­op­ing a TV series for Warn­er Bros. tele­vi­sion, and a movie he co-wrote with Bil­ly Crys­tal titled Here Today that stars Bil­ly and Tiffany Had­dish will be seen in the­aters lat­er this year.