1. Alan Zweibel, who is Jewish, was born May 20,1950, in Brooklyn, New York City, to Julius and Shirley Alan Zweibel.
12 Facts About Alan Zweibel
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Alan Zweibel grew up in the New York City suburbs of Wantagh and Woodmere on Long Island.
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Alan Zweibel graduated from George W Hewlett High School in 1968 and the University at Buffalo in 1972.
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Alan Zweibel later compiled over 1,100 jokes into a portfolio which he showed to producer Lorne Michaels who then hired Zweibel to be one of the original writers of a new show called Saturday Night Live.
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Alan Zweibel has won multiple Emmy, Writers Guild of America, and Television Critics Awards for his work in television which includes Curb Your Enthusiasm, It's Garry Shandling's Show, and an episode of Monk.
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Alan Zweibel can be seen in the documentary The Last Laugh about humor and the Holocaust; Judd Apatow's The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling ; Gilbert, a documentary about the life of Gilbert Gottfried; and Love, Gilda, the Emmy-nominated CNN documentary for which he served as executive producer.
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Alan Zweibel's popular children's book, Our Tree Named Steve, was a Scholastic Book Club selection that has been translated into eleven languages, and his young adult novel, North, was made into a movie directed by Rob Reiner.
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Alan Zweibel penned a best-selling e-book titled From My Bottom Drawer.
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Alan Zweibel co-wrote and co-produced Here Today with Billy Crystal, and was the co-writer for Dragnet, The Story of Us and North.
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Alan Zweibel has been honored by the Writers Guild of America and the Television Critics Association.
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Alan Zweibel was awarded the 2006 Thurber Prize for American Humor for his book, The Other Shulman.
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Alan Zweibel has been married to his wife Robin since 1979 and they have 3 children and 5 grandchildren.