there is no thread for Gary Shandling

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