the Larry Sanders Show

Revive!

Why didn't anyone TELL me you could just snag a bootleg copy of the entire series on eBay?

Most overlooked LSS performer: Wallace Langham.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:27 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so right

I don't feel like reading over this whole thread (which I didn't know existed), so I may repeat something said above. This was my favourite TV show ever. In the annals of showbiz creeps, Bob Odenkirk's Stevie Grant was good enough for The Sweet Smell of Success. My number-one favorite line was Hank's response in the hallway when Larry introduces him to "Elvis" (Costello): "I don't think so..." Second favourite was Arty's description (in the Wu-Tang episode) of Lenny Kravitz as being only "half-urban" (exaggerated upper-class pronunciation of "half").

This was a perfect show.

hey nowwww

Does my ass look fat?

Revision to an earlier post: this is my favorite moment of all.

Isn't Bob doing the same agent that Jeremy Piven is supposedly doing on Entourage? I, obviously, prefer Bob's take.

Maybe this is because I've thoroughly watched Mr Show and have gotten sick of Bob Odenkirk, but he always struck me as one of the lesser characters on the show. I mean he was pretty good in the first few seasons, but then he just got kind of annoying, and his acting seemed to decline too, in that kind of over the top Bob Odenkirk way.

Although, then again, I think most characters wear away with age, except Artie of course, who is very much like a the finest of wines, ripens with age, is perennially classy, etc.

Revive!

Why didn't anyone TELL me you could just snag a bootleg copy of the entire series on eBay?

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, April 9, 2010 12:42 AM (1 week ago)

Arrived today!! Now I just need to plow through 25 more Seinfeld DVDs, then I'm all set. Life is good.

xpost Referring to Bob Odenkirk the person as a 'character' is odd, but if you think he's lost it or something, check out his performance on Breaking Bad. Probably his best work, and a great show.

I meant Stevie. I think you misread my post.

jouster u mad. i mean i get both characters are supposed to be based on ari emanuel but bob's is probably too goofy?

xpost oh, duh. I guess I said Bob and you said Bob and so I somehow got it all mixed up. I know what you mean - I kinda feel that way about Hank (a little).

great scene: hank all bronzed up doing his prince charles imitation

Yes, I feel the same way about Hank too. somewhere along the way he turns from a lovable goof from lovably irritating goof, to irritating goof (that's still funny, just maybe a bit too incorrigible).

To speak of another great Hank scene: the scene with Harvey Fierstein was one about which I had a phase for a week of almost compulsively rewatching.

the scene where larry and hank have a chat in the car after larry abandoned the show for a bit is amazing. "listen...larry boy!"

yes!

and the scene where hank and artie get drunk, and hank is all woozy from piercing his own ear, and they accost larry for planning to quit the show...

"I hope someone from Pavement saw it because I would like to date any one of those fine gentlemen."

garofalo otm imho

hank's hissyfits <3<3<3

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

Hank's fits are great because they capture the comic-pathetic quality that exists in most real life outbursts.

Wasn't aware this was on its way until my sister and brother-and-law surprised me on my birthday:

http://www.amazon.com/Larry-Sanders-Show-Complete/dp/B003NHMYJW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1288390834&sr=8-1

whoa nice, santa claus will be hearing about this let me tell you.

sweet!

hope there will be the requisite tonnes of extras

There are heaps, but it's not clear if it has (all of) the same ones as the Best Of set - at least some of Shandlings re-visits to cast are in there tho

Do you know if thre are extras that weren't included on the Best Of collection?

I've been working my way through the box set (link above)--finished season two last night. Spooky: John Ritter, Gene Siskel, and Warren Zevon all on the same episode. Utterly brilliant: Hank at the end of the Eric Bogosian episode, where he believes that Bogosian's character (Stan, Larry's old partner in a comedy duo) is dead, even though Stan's suicide attempt was in fact botched.

Number 1 on my Christmas list

Yeah!

love artie tackling phil at the end of the zevon episode.

is there a uk version of it? i had a look on amazon and it was 116 quid for a us version, i guess my xbox prob plays us dvds but that price is hefty too, i could download for at most half that price, possibly a lot less.

season 1 and 2 are on region 2 from Amazon at about 18 quid each

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Artie is just consistently great. From the "Hank's Wedding" episode, when Hank is shocked that Artie's figured out he wants to have the wedding on air: "Hank, I keep telling you--I can see right into your soul."

xp don't think xbox plays us dvds...? if so, it's "only" $99 at amazon atm.

it screams "penis vagina" more than anything...

I had to go on hiatus from the box set for a couple of weeks, but I just finished the episode where Hank guest-hosts (Season 3), and I don't know if the show ever had a better one.

Darlene: "I'm doing some creative visualization, and I'm seeing the audience screaming with laughter!"
Artie: "I've seen the same thing, Darlene--thank you for explaining the screaming."

That's one of my favorites as well.

The way Hank becomes really smug with Larry and the crew after the first show is especially great.

Hank's post-show smugness is so off the chart, it's actually hard to watch; even before I started the episode, I got this queasy feeling remembering what a train-wreck he was. Another favorite line from Artie, when Hank breaks down crying just before he goes on air: (as only Artie can deliver it) "Should I be concerned?"

that might be my favourite episode. at least as good as hank's sex tape.

"And might I suggest three gift baskets for Lionel Richie, one for each time you referred to him as 'Little Richard.'"

All the best episodes are Hank related, aren't they? I like the one where they have to do a show without Hank and realize his value to the show.

no longer on hulu :((

Anybody know Phil Leeds? Great character actor--he plays Hank's agent Sid, he was Dr. Shand in Rosemary's Baby, he was on an old Dick Van Dyke as Morey Amsterdam's pool-hustling brother, and there was an Odd Couple episode, too (forget the details, except that he was good--something to do with horse-racing). A friend and I are the only Phil Leeds cultists in the world. Anyway, I watched the post-divorce episode where Hank goes on a binge of debauchery, and Leeds has one of my favorite lines ever:

Sid: "Hankulah, so you're marriage has turned to shit. I know what you're going through, but this, with the whores and the booze..."
Hank: "You know what I'm going through? You've been married to the same lady for 56 years."
Sid: "I'm thinking of getting out."

sid is a god.

Finished season four, couple more to go. The opening of season four does an amazing job of capturing something that I think has been forgotten: how riveting, and how serious, the O.J. trial was before it became a full-time punchline. The first image is of Chris Darden talking, and you pull back to see everyone around the TV, not saying anything, as Larry watches intently. This goes on for a good minute. (Leading to a great joke eventually. Paula: "Kato Kaelin's people have been haranguing me about getting him on the show." Paula, off-camera: "Kato Kaelin has people?") Other all-time episodes from the same season: the one where Jeannie comes back and ends up having sex with Hank, Artie's all-night bender after his friend Ryan O'Neal gets bumped, and, of course, Hank's sex tape. ("You need to wash your mouth out with...Hank.") There's even one episode where there's a truly great sentimental moment, something I thought the show had avoided at all costs (like Seinfeld): Beverly's explanation for why she comes back after quitting.

Hope those who wanted this for Christmas got it.

Oops--it's Beverly who has the off-camera line about Kato Kaelin.

Though the show wasn't sentimental (in the worst sense) I do think they did have some great moments of pathos, like that Beverly episode, but there are also some great moments between Larry and Artie, and Hank is lovable for the same comic-pathetic reasons Homer Simpson used to be.