Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel improvise a novel

Authors Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. (Photo by: Daniel Portnoy /Courtesy G.P. Putnam's Sons)

Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel are no strangers to demented situations and madcap humor.

Both men have authored wildly successful comedic projects in print and on the screen. With their new novel, “Lunatics,” the two have found a way to up the comedic ante.

Barry and Zweibel wrote the book by swapping chapters, with neither knowing where the other was going with the plot.

The pair of humor writers tell Steve Fast that their collaboration was boundary-pushing … for better or worse.

Listen to the interview below:

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