Trivia

As a teenager, sneaked onto the set of Young Frankenstein (1974) and subsequently befriended Marty Feldman. Over a decade later, Spencer was tapped by his hero Mel Brooks to co-create a short-lived TV series.

Wrote in his high school yearbook that his dream was one day to work for Mel Brooks.

Alan Spencer is developing a reinvention of "Sledge Hammer!" inspired by current events that mirror the original character's satirical point of view.

Wrote the screenplay for the unproduced third sequel to The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) titled "The Naked Gun: What 4? The Rhythm of Evil".

One of the youngest members ever to join the Writer's Guild of America.

As featured in "Creative Screenwriting" magazine, is a highly sought after "script doctor" and dialog "punch-up" specialist for feature films. The article listed Spencer alongside such top writers as Scott Frank, Kenneth Lonergan and Ed Solomon as the best rewrite men in the business.

Mel Brooks handpicked Alan Spencer to co-create a TV series without knowing he was the same adolescent who had sneaked onto the set of "Young Frankenstein" many years earlier.

Alan Spencer was hired by Don Adams to write jokes for a movie shoot, but refused payment. This brought him to the attention of "Get Smart!" executive producer Leonard Stern who read Spencer's "Sledge Hammer!" screenplay and later recommended it to HBO.

In a TV writing class an instructor informed Alan Spencer how he didn't think a script he'd submitted for finals would ever sell. Spencer let the teacher know the episode already aired.

Was a friend of legendary offbeat comedian Andy Kaufman, who invited Spencer over to his house on one occasion and subjected him to a 48-hour marathon of The People's Court (1981) episodes Kaufman had recorded.

Is a close personal friend of actress Tracy Scoggins.

Alan Spencer was writing scripts for sitcoms while still in high school.

A teenage Alan Spencer sold jokes to comedians through the mail who were unaware of his young age. When Spencer met Rodney Dangerfield years later and told him he was fifteen back then, Dangerfield replied: "I remember those jokes. I said to myself they look like they're written by a fifteen-year-old.".

Alan Spencer was interviewed in Mike Sacks book "Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers" about his career as a sought-after script doctor for feature films.