there is no thread for Gary Shandling

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).

TMZ reporting it was a massive heart attack

I choose to read that as a massive hair attack

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

― Οὖτις, Thursday, March 24, 2016 4:46 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IFC picked up Sanders reruns a few years ago, is probably why. although i dunno how much HBO keeps any of their 90s show on demand anymore.

just saw a pic of him with Griffin + Odenkirk from the a couple of days back and he looked in good health, would never have guessed correctly on Rip Torn seeing him out.

literally every show they've ever done (that I'm aware of anyway) is streaming, except for this one. Including shows (like Sex and the City) that have been licensed to other networks for reruns.

xp

ha wonder if that's actually due to Shandling somehow, like wanting to make sure people bought DVDs instead

Correction: mr. Show is the other thats not available, maybe cuz of the netflix revive idk

ALSO DREAM ON WHY CANT I WATCH DREAM ON GODDAMNIT

Ok never heard of that one

Damn, I was just thinking about "It was a back tooth, Hank!" not two hours ago

RIP funny man

just saw the inside comedy with him a week or so ago. i loved this guy. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJlPEeZfcMw

he was a legendary dickhead but in the best way possible. love him.

Despite all the very cruel + hilarious humour in The Larry Sanders Show it had a very soft underbelly imo, in a good way.

Not clear on the rights to Mr. Show & Larry Sanders but HBO has no claim on them anymore; they were owned by Brad Grey's production company and sold off at some point.

ah!

christ this hurts me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF94LvnRlKA

"That lazy bastard!"

Too many awesome people are dying. Take Chris Elliott away from me and I will make you people pay.

wasn't Bob Elliott enough?

News re Sanders:

http://www.thewrap.com/garry-shandlings-larry-sanders-show-returning-to-hbo-exclusive/

Shortly before Garry Shandling‘s tragic death Thursday, he completed a deal to return his classic “The Larry Sanders Show” exclusively to HBO. “I loved Garry. We were fulfilling his wishes to see the show move to HBO,” Sony Pictures Television chairman Steve Mosko told TheWrap. The show will appear on the network and its streaming services, another person familiar with the deal said.

Got to say, as a another kid that loved old stand up, I always thought Garry Shandling was very funny. It is interesting in hindsight that both of his TV shows were about TV shows as even the first show liked to play with show conventions even with the idea of a 'generic' theme song and breaking the fourth wall. I'd have to figure this had to be influenced by really making it in comedy first as a writer before becoming successful as a performer. Gary Shandling also had amazing comedic chemistry with both Jeffrey Tambor and Rip Torn. To me it seemed like Shandling was most likely playing out a bunch of his own hangups and insecurities on Larry Sanders. Seems like even for perhaps playing with those items on his show, it always seemed to be a fairly private guy off camera or that is the vibe I got from his interviews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cWbkWTYwTw

first Carson appearance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg7fis-UY-s

Matt Zoller Seitz

The Coffee episode he did with Seinfeld i posted is very good and filled with death shit.

(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

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