My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier: An Evening with Alan Zweibel

Name: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier: An Evening with Alan Zweibel
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2026-10-08
Duration: 3 h
Cast: Billy Crystal, Tiffany Haddish, Penn Badgley

<div>Original SNL writer Alan Zweibel discusses his creative partnerships with Gilda Radner, Billy Crystal, Garry Shandling, Larry David, Martin Short and others followed by a screening of HERE TODAY, co-written by Zweibel & Crystal starring Crystal. Hosted by former SNL cast member, Gary Kroeger. </div><div> </div><div>This special benefit event will take place at the MainStage at the '62 Center for Theatre & Dance.</div> Film synopsis: Veteran comedy writer Charlie Berns, who is slowly but surely losing his grip on reality, befriends a talented young New York street singer Emma Payge. Together, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.<div> </div><div>Alan Zweibel bio: An original “Saturday Night Live” writer, Alan has won five Emmy Awards 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 best-selling 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”, and a parody of the Haggadah titled “For This We Left Egypt?” that he wrote with Dave Barry and Adam Mansbach, and the cultural memoir “Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier.”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, Air Mail, and MAD Magazine.  He has also penned a best selling e-book titled  “From My Bottom Drawer.  He co-wrote screenplays for the films “Dragnet”, “North”, “The Story of Us” and “Here Today”, Alan has received an honorary PhD. from the State University of New York and because of the diversity of his body or work, in 2010 the Writers Guild of America, East gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to the talk shows, Alan also appeared in episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Law & Order”, and can be seen in the documentary “The Last Laugh” about humor and the Holocaust; Judd Apatow’s “Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling,” “Gilbert” about the life of Gilbert Gottfried, and the Gene Wilder, Chevy Chase, Lorne Michaels, and Paddy Chayevsky  documentaries well as the Emmy nominated CNN documentary he executive produced titled “Love, Gilda” Currently, Alan has just finished a screenplay for a film that will be directed by Academy Award winning director Barry Levinson, is putting the finishing touches on a memoir titled “I’m What’s Left of Alan Zweibel” as well as an animated film he wrote with his friend Billy Crystal called “Livingston”, now in pre-production.But the production that Alan is most proud of is the one he co-created with his wife Robin, their three children and five grandchildren.</div>ComedyPT3HPG-132026-10-08USen

Billy Crystal

Tiffany Haddish

Penn Badgley

Billy Crystal

Alan Zweibel

Billy Crystal

Tiffany Haddish

Alan Zweibel

Fred Bernstein

Dominique Telson

My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier: An Evening with Alan Zweibel"My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier: An Evening with Alan Zweibel"

Showtimes

October 8, 7:00 pm