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Frank Biondo on the Muppet version of Frank Biondo 03:27
Interview: Frank Biondo | Show: Sesame Street
Frank Biondo on writing a song for Sesame Street 03:56
Interview: Frank Biondo | Show: Sesame Street
Frank Biondo on being a camera operator on Sesame Street for the last fifty years and all of the accomplishments of the show 01:28
Interview: Frank Biondo | Show: Sesame Street
Frank Biondo on competition for Sesame Street -- Barney & Friends -- and Sesame Street producing fewer episodes 01:42
Interview: Frank Biondo | Show: Sesame Street
Frank Biondo on competition for Sesame Street -- Barney & Friends -- and Sesame Street producing fewer episodes 01:42
Interview: Frank Biondo | Show: Barney & Friends
Frank Biondo on production not changing on Sesame Street with the HBO first-run deal 01:00
Interview: Frank Biondo | Show: Sesame Street
Frank Biondo on his then-current thoughts on how much longer he'll continue to work at Sesame Street 02:12
Interview: Frank Biondo | Show: Sesame Street
Frank Biondo on the legacy of Sesame Street and what it's meant to him to be a part of the show 04:59
Interview: Frank Biondo | Show: Sesame Street
Frank Biondo on meeting the man who invented the jib 01:02
Interview: Frank Biondo | Topic: Technological Innovation
Frank Biondo on advice to an aspiring camera operator 05:05
Interview: Frank Biondo | Topic: Television Industry
START OF ZOOM INTERVIEW DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: On Alan's latest book, Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People be Funnier, and the challenges of promoting a book during the pandemic; on the recent death of his mother and trying to find the funny in it all 05:43
Interview: Alan Zweibel
On his new Friday ritual - a Zoom cocktail party with Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal, Barry Levinson, Albert Brooks, and Martin Short and their wives (they select a movie to view and discuss at these virtual parties) 04:41
Interview: Alan Zweibel
On how he has been coping with the daily challenges of the pandemic; on how the pandemic has affected his work; on how humor can help people cope, as it did during the Holocaust; on his thoughts on the new Saturday Night Live At Home episodes; on how it's difficult for performers to navigate this "new normal"; on the loss of his mother and how the memorial services have changed for grieving families; on how he believes there will be a greater appreciation for human connectivity because of the pandemic stay-at-home rituals; on how he navigated a "Zoom kaddish" for his late mother; on the disconnect happening now and his hope that something positive may still result from the current situation 12:59
Interview: Alan Zweibel
On how Lorne Michaels hired him to be on the original writing staff of Saturday Night Live on his birthday in 1975; on how he wants to celebrate his upcoming 70th birthday this year; on what he is grateful for 09:41
Interview: Alan Zweibel
Alan Zweibel, interviewed from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, talks about Gilbert Gottfried's documentary, and celebrating him at his 60th birthday party 02:08
Interview: Alan Zweibel | Person: Gilbert Gottfried
Alan Zweibel, interviewed from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, reminisces about how he got his first job writing jokes for Catskills comedian Morty Gunty for $7 a joke 03:41
Interview: Alan Zweibel | Person: Morty Gunty
Alan Zweibel, interviewed from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, on humor during times of tragedy and how Saturday Night Live's At Home episodes and the late-night hosts such as Jimmy Fallon, Bill Maher, doing their shows from home have served as a comedic coping mechanism for all of us 06:12
Interview: Alan Zweibel | Show: Saturday Night Live
Alan Zweibel, interviewed from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, on how he has been coping during the Stay at Home mandate 11:22
Interview: Alan Zweibel | Topic: COVID-19 Pandemic
Alan Zweibel, interviewed from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, on how he has been coping during the Stay at Home mandate 11:22
Interview: Alan Zweibel | Topic: Health and Medicine
Alan Zweibel, interviewed from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, on how he has been coping during the Stay at Home mandate 11:22
Interview: Alan Zweibel | Topic: Historic Events and Social Change
On his early years and influences; on how he started to go by the name "Frank"; on his childhood in Brooklyn; on the first time he saw television; on going to school for radio and television repair; on joining the Navy; on being a bond clerk on Wall Street 21:52
Interview: Frank Biondo
On going to school for TV production and getting his first production job at WTTG in Washington, D.C.; on working at WBZ in Boston and turning down a full-time position there; on getting hired at NBC as a cameraman and working with color television at the 1964 World's Fair; on shooting the UN General Assembly sessions 21:07
Interview: Frank Biondo
On wanting to do summer relief shows at NBC; on getting a job as a cameraman on Supermarket Sweep; on shooting a three-camera setup on the soap opera The Nurses; on famous people he worked with in the '60s at NBC, including Andy Warhol 08:25
Interview: Frank Biondo
On differences between a Chapman crane and jib and becoming a Chapman operator; on shooting hockey games, Barbra Streisand's TV special A Happening in Central Park, That's Life, and shooting John Lennon in studio; on his interactions with Yoko Ono 18:06
Interview: Frank Biondo
Frank Biondo on being a Chapman camera operator for hockey games at the old Madison Square Garden 00:56
Interview: Frank Biondo | Genre: Sports
Frank Biondo on getting a job as a cameraman on Supermarket Sweep, which shot on location 02:36
Interview: Frank Biondo | Genre: Game Shows
Frank Biondo on being a camera operator on the ABC show That's Life 04:08
Interview: Frank Biondo | Genre: Music Shows & Variety Shows/Specials
Frank Biondo on getting a job as a cameraman on the soap opera The Nurses -- a three-camera setup 04:03
Interview: Frank Biondo | Genre: Daytime/Primetime Serials