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The Resource Laugh lines : my life helping funny people be funnier : a cultural memoir, Alan Zweibel

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

Label
Laugh lines : my life helping funny people be funnier : a cultural memoir
Title
Laugh lines
Title remainder
my life helping funny people be funnier : a cultural memoir
Statement of responsibility
Alan Zweibel
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
YDX
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Zweibel, Alan
Dewey number
791.45092
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3576.W36
LC item number
Z46 2020
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Zweibel, Alan
  • Television comedy writers
  • Television comedies
Target audience
adult
Label
Laugh lines : my life helping funny people be funnier : a cultural memoir, Alan Zweibel
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
Also published in paperback by Abrams Press in 2020 with ISBN 9781419735356
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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)
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xviii, 251 pages
Isbn
9781419735288
Lccn
2019939897
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)1111981982
  • 2416694
  • (OCoLC)on1111981982
  • (OCoLC)1111981982
  • 3601562
Label
Laugh lines : my life helping funny people be funnier : a cultural memoir, Alan Zweibel
Publication
Copyright
Note
Also published in paperback by Abrams Press in 2020 with ISBN 9781419735356
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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)
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xviii, 251 pages
Isbn
9781419735288
Lccn
2019939897
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)1111981982
  • 2416694
  • (OCoLC)on1111981982
  • (OCoLC)1111981982
  • 3601562

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