Alan Zweibel News

After spurning a regular guest-host gig for Johnny Carson , and before his career-defining role as fictional host of The Larry Sanders Show , comedian Garry Shandling starred on one of TV's most innovative sitcoms.

This Is a Story About the DVD of Garry's Show Created by Mr. Shandling and Alan Zweibel, an alumnus of the original "Saturday Night Live" writing staff, "It's Garry Shandling's Show" superficially resembled a network sitcom.

The Thurber Awards took place last night, in a banquet room in none other than the Algonquin Hotel.

Billy Crystal has taken his boyhood memories back on the road. "I really miss doing it.

It's Always Something By Gilda Radner Simon and Schuster 286 pp., $14 Originally published in 1989, Gilda Radner's autobiographical account of living - and dying - with ovarian cancer has been reprinted with a new introduction by Alan Zweibel, her collaborator in writing Saturday Night Live .

The "Talkback Tuesday" series at Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps continues July 7 - with writer Alan Zweibel - following the performance at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre.