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GGACP Rewind: Episode #38: Alan Zweibel

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast
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Emmy award-winning writer Alan Zweibel started out in show business by peddling jokes to Catskills comics at seven bucks a pop, before a chance meeting with Lorne Michaels led to a staff job on the hottest new show on television, “Saturday Night Live.” Alan joined Gilbert and Frank at the George Burns Room at the Friars Club to talk about the earliest days o ... Show More
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