![]() ![]() ![]() His saga of writing “North,” the 1994 Rob Reiner flop that famously inspired Roger Ebert to declare that he “hated hated hated hated hated this movie,” is probably more entertaining than the movie itself, which I confess I have never seen. ![]() Zweibel’s failures are ultimately more fun to read about than his triumphs. But “Laugh Lines” eventually devolves into a litany of name-dropping and “And then I wrote …” reminiscences, which is much less so. The stories of people making it up as they went along at “S.N.L.” - and especially of his close personal and professional relationship with Gilda Radner, about which he has written before but still has a lot to say - are fascinating. Like most show-business memoirs, “Laugh Lines” becomes less interesting as its author becomes more successful. In “Laugh Lines,” Zweibel looks back, affectionately and informatively, at a career that began when he was a young deli worker grinding out jokes for old-school borscht belt comedians in his spare time, and that, after his “S.N.L.” years, included rewarding collaborations with, among others, Garry Shandling, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Larry David and Dave Barry. ![]()
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