there is no thread for Gary Shandling

I made love to this girl, I asked her "was it good for you?" she said "that isn't good for anybody"

the Larry Sanders Show

not the same thing!

it's garry (two Rs)

I am watching DVDs of the Its the Garry Shandling Show and they are awesome

Laffie!!

seriously who names their kid Garry with two r's

not the same thing!

― one less mouth to feed is one less mouth to feed (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, November 2, 2009 12:10 AM

u mad

Any Britisher going to Canada - please pick me up one box set of It's The Garry Shandling Show and I will pay you when you get back, k thx.

i remember watching gaar ychansing show on latingit tv

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

It's amazing what Garry can get up to.

It's almost as if

He's reading people here

Or maybe there.

OK lol

And there's much more too.

where's beverly when you need her?

kill me, i just made a "blockage" joke to garry shandling. i'll never get a table at the ivy again.

tbh nearly blocked slocki when i saw he follow(ed) shandling but not albert brooks

This was the strangest thing I've seen on twitter in quite a while.

I am going to this!

http://www.largo-la.com/2012/07/24/garry-shandling-joins-jeff-garlin-in-conversation-july-28th/

These guys basically embody what I hope to be in late middle age.

Well dang.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/garry-shandling-dead-larry-sanders-show-show-1201738601/

omg NOOOOOOOOO

Not that anyone should feel the need to quantify such things, but this one actually hit me harder than Bowie.

his two TV shows are all-time great imo. fuck. gutted.

kinda hard not to imagine a funeral being taken over by Jeffrey Tambor as Hank.

pretty sure Larry Sanders is the last comedy series i watched in its entirety.

what the fuck

that is a pisser :(

wow, this title...

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/garry-shandling-its-great-that-garry-shandling-is-still-alive

RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Is3tYS8oV4

The Garry Shandling Show rocked my world as a lil 9 year old comedy dweeb.

best theme song ever

some unfortunate chinese jokes in that clip, sorry

Phife is a guest on the Larry Sanders show in heaven ;_;

wow this sucks. RIP to a true comedy great. I don't think there has been a show yet to match Larry Sanders for both pure hilarity and awkward relationships, AND actual drama, with characters you actually care about. He never got the kind of credit that people like Larry David and Ricky Gervais get today, but IMO he did everything they did, and before they did it.

hopefully this means HBO will finally put Larry Sanders back on their streaming/on demand services, where they have been mysteriously absent for years

just reserved two seasons at the liberry

Wow. More than Mad Men, more than Twin Peaks, more than anything from the early '70s, Larry Sanders is my favourite TV show ever.

i know this isn't the proper time but he looked like john kasich

The Garry Shandling Show rocked my world as a lil 9 year old comedy dweeb.

everybody understandably talks about Larry Sanders but ^^^^ this. this show (along w the Simpsons and Tracey Ullman) seemed so deeply subversive to me at the time, all the self-referentiality and deliberately fake staging, driving carts between sets, taking a walk through a fake Xmas tree lot to get to "the beach", talking to the audience, and entire episode with Larry stuck down a hole...

I had never seen anything that acknowledged all the unspoken conventions of 3-camera sitcoms

He never got the kind of credit that people like Larry David and Ricky Gervais get today, but IMO he did everything they did, and before they did it.

^^^^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmCpmEQD0L4

I'll get behind The Larry Sanders Show as the Best Show Ever, which has the advantage over any of my other candidates on the grounds that it was allowed to see itself through to the end (unlike Deadwood) and yet went out when it was still brilliant (unlike The Simpsons).

It's GS's Show brought back a layer of surrealism to a sitcom that hadn't been done quite that well since Burns & Allen in the '50s.

i know this isn't the proper time but he looked like john kasich

jimmy carter + ira kaplan

def Ira Kaplan

GS Show was capable of being genuinely surprising - like when Garry fell down the well and didn't appear for the monologue, they just played the theme show *twice*. Or when Garry left his wallet onstage after a scene, left the stage, and then someone from the audience came down and took money out of it, only for Garry to return later and demand to know who stole money out of his wallet. I mean wtf this was just conceptual stuff that didn't happen in other 30-minute 3-camera sitcoms.

Still need to see the GS show. Damn shame that the DVD box is like $130 on Amazon (and my library doesn't have it).

(also they go to the Comedy Store, which i just read about in Kliph Nesteroff's Comedians book. Everyone seems to have hated the woman who ran it, Mitzi Shore. She didn't pay the comics until there was a strike.)

Pretty great.

http://teamcoco.com/video/conan-remembers-garry-shandling

Great photo:

https://m.facebook.com/dantanasrestaurant/photos/a.371567443037504.1073741833.278566305670952/460416747485906/?type=3&source=54

xpost Lovely.

Shandling to me belonged to that Albert Brooks brand of neurotic tight-wind genius that manifested itself in a wholly original way, comedians that made you feel smarter for realizing how smart they were. I interviewed him once, and of all the hundreds of people I'd talked with he was the most casually conversational, like having a meal with a pal that I'd never met before and would never meet again.

Maron talks about Mitzi all the time, as well as the Comedy Store. I have yet to hear anyone say a kind thing about her over dozens and dozens of interviews, except for maybe Pauly Shore.

Just watched the Seinfeld thing. That was a really nice interview to go out on.

Gary Shandling also had amazing comedic chemistry with both Jeffrey Tambor and Rip Torn

Like the holy trinity, the three of them in that show.

I realize he just passed, but it seems to me Shandling is one of the few major comedy figures of the last few decades who is generally perceived as a nice / personable fellow.

That said, Sanders was great and I still need to see Shandling. RIP.

Gary Shandling also had amazing comedic chemistry with both Jeffrey Tambor and Rip Torn

Like the holy trinity, the three of them in that show.

Genuinely probably the greatest core cast of any TV show I can think of. So bummed that he's passed. As a minnow working on the edges of the entertainment industry The Larry Sanders Show understood ego and its fragility better than anything I've ever seen. I cherish the box set.

I think anyone who has spent 6 seasons with these unforgettable characters will have that "death in the family" feeling today, it is hard not to.

that conan clip is awesome

Tuesday late nights on BBC2 in the mid to late 90s were v special to me

Feel like one of 'my guys' has gone.

The scheduling of Larry Sanders and Seinfeld by BBC2 was really absurd.

BBC always held US sitcoms at arms length, like they were giving out a bad smell, except for M*A*S*H.

I think they were on once a week, possibly a different day, then 3 times a week for a short period, then back to once on a Tuesday

Could deal ok with Seinfeld and Larry being on at 11.20 etc as long as it was the same every week...it was annoying seeing them messed about even at graveyard hours

I had totally forgotten about this, his fake "25th Anniversary" special:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JCf3r6NmfI

This was sweet:

https://www.gq.com/story/garry-shandling-tribute-last-email

likeineedem✧✧✧@a✧✧.c✧✧

likeineedemail @ aol. com <---- this guy, God love him.

a comedy genius. that part on the larry sanders show when he's arguing with someone he's dating and is like "i'm a comedian...i'm all fucked up" is stuck in my head forever.

smart guy talking about another smart guy, and shows some of the craft that garry put into making the larry sanders show:

http://www.vulture.com/2013/03/jeffrey-tambor-the-larry-sanders-show-stories.html#

Prompted by an iconic photo:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-garry-shandling-photograph-that-closes-the-book-on-a-late-night-era?intcid=mod-most-popular

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Ian-Garry-Shandling-Photograph-Late-Night-Era1-1200.jpg

I remember that anniversary special.

All three of them came out one at a time and did their stand-up bit. And they each told the same joke about airplane restrooms with the same punchline "basically, everything's a rimshot."

It was never mentioned that they all had told the same joke, something they probably came up with backstage. I thought it was pretty cool.

http://www.avclub.com/article/why-didnt-garry-shandlings-brilliant-schtick-trans-234692

As ever, AVClub arrives with the question that never needed to be asked

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/garry-shandling-celebrated-star-studded-887125

fter Adams came the night's host Apatow, who didn't take long to make the connection between the hue glowing behind him and the death of superstar singer Prince on Thursday.

But first, he got choked up. "I don't know how I am going to do this. I'm sorry in advance," he said, fighting back tears. "It's been very emotional to go down the rabbit hole of Garry, but I feel like it's a lesson for me to just think very deeply about Garry's life and his death and to learn from it. It's odd that Prince just died because Garry and Prince were very similar. There really were no differences."

And that proved to be the set-up for the night's first wave of uproarious laughter. "(Garry) was mysterious, complicated, sexually ambiguous. ... He was a brilliant performer who may or may not have been high the entire time," Apatow said. "Both stood up against the man to get their shit back, and both were sexy as a mother f—er... Larry Sanders Show was Garry's Purple Rain. His Garry Shandling Show was (Prince's) Dirty Mind. The only difference between the two was that Gary had a huge c—."

funnier than Apatow's post-TLSS output!

Well, Prince and Larry Sanders were both from Minneapolis.

also weirdly both connected to the marvel universe - shandling played a corrupt senator in a couple of marvel movies and prince famously turned down the chance to play tony stark in the first iron man movie

i watched the shandling/seinfeld comedians in cars thing and had forgotten just how gross and terrible jerry seinfeld is, from the sneering joke about non-straight men at the beginning to the general puffed-up self-importance of the rest. he was right though that the larry sanders show created "a different kind of air" on TV - which we're still exploring, 25 years later. it's amazing. and shandling himself had this great line in response to seinfeld talking about how once you've gone all your material goes with you, and what a waste that is, and shadling says, the material is always just a vehicle for you to express your spirit and your being in that moment, and jerry's like 'and then that's it, that's all there is!' and shandling's like 'that's ALL??! that's everything! expressing the spirit of your being in the moment to millions of people and you say 'that's ALL??'

lol I couldn't make it through that whole thing and missed that part

I had no idea about Shandling's Buddhism prior to his death. And while I always preferred him to Seinfeld, that seems to add some extra reinforcement to my impression that he was just smarter and better than Seinfeld, whose self-absorption and smarmy snarkiness has never suggested to me that there was much depth underneath. Shandling is different in that respect.

Shandling's material often dealt with similar subjects as Seinfeld's - vanity/ego, insecurity, obsessive compulsiveness etc. - but Shandling's stuff hit closer to the bone, it plumbed some real raw emotional depths.

It took me years to begin watching some Seinfeld because his standup seemed so shallow and rote.

I don't think Seinfeld would even argue that there's a huge vacuum at the heart of his schtick

shandling talks a lot about his buddhism in the extras on the larry sanders box iirc

i just started S3 of the larry sanders show and i never want it to end.

One year gone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaqEDBKpdv8

best scene ever

that's great!

Two-part HBO doc coming in March

Seinfeld is probably a reptilian.

"garry had spent four years working on 'over the hedge'"

This documentary was so so great.

My DL of it cut off just after Seinfeld and Garry were hugging at the end of the second episode - was there much after that?

I kind of want to see Over The Hedge now

i'd forgotten this was on the way, will def need to download

actually watching over the hedge might be going a bit too far tho

inevitably ended up watching the freaks and geeks clip stevie posted upthread and fell in love with martin starr/bill haverchuck all over again - still such an incredible scene

xp decent amt post seinfeld hug if i recall, notably showing parts of garrys funeral service w the credits

gah!

life it ain't easy when you have to steal stuff to see it

it is if you join a decent torrent site!

BUT CAN U GUARANTEE THE TORRENT DOESN'T CUT OFF MINUTES BEFORE THE END??

on the one I use people are pretty quick to put comments on bad torrents.

torrent I got also cuts off :/

I thought the Under the Hedge bit was quite touching