the Larry Sanders Show

not sure if this was posted already in this thread but very worth reading: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/the-tragedy-of-the-talk-show-host/8293/

The "no-flipping" thing he does at the end of each monologue always made me think this was some sort of alternative universe where David Brenner had a successful talk show.

Larry Sanders and Garry Shandling's guest stints on Carson were completely different.

they all have their own little 'no-flipping' things. conan bows to the audience a bunch.

Yeah, but the "no-flipping" is a lot lamer.

his delivery is good, he seems natural, etc., just the jokes themselves are really lame. they're like leno-standard jokes. i just wasn't sure if that was intentional or not.

i think tambor is a really good swearer because it doesn't seem casual at all, he seems genuinely infuriated whenever he swears. thinking specifically of when he finds out he's been cut from larry's architectural digest pictorial and just keeps saying "those ... fuckers" over and over

"penis vagina"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50GmA2T8Jo8

at one point networks were talking about hiring him to actually host one of the late night shows (I believe NBC was trying to get him for the late night show and when they couldn't they went with Conan instead).

it was the Tonight Show, and he turned it down to do Larry Sanders for HBO

can't find letterman's appearance backstage at an awards ceremony :(

they tried to get him to do late night again after larry sanders show was already running (it's discussed in the Conan biography part of the War for Late Night)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWV06u_Q4UM

another great swearing hank moment is when he's trying to impress wu-tang with his parking tickets, stomping his foot; "fucking cops man!"

Those are exactly like larry sanders!!!

watched the first ep of season 4 today, tambor just KILLS it after his car gets egged

Isn't that the episode that starts with everybody sitting around a TV watching the O.J. trial, with Phil later using the egging to make a point about O.J.'s guilt? As I mentioned upthread, that's my favorite opening of any episode in the entire run. It's so atypically grim.

yeah, and roseanne is booked on the show and larry freaks out

"the only way they're going to get rid of this yarmulke is if they pry it off my cold, dead head"

btw my fav hank moment is when he gets engaged to a younger woman to everyone's confusion, and the punchline is when Artie meets her dad and he looks exactly like hank

so many amazing moments, love the episode where hank and larry end up dancing zonked on anti-depressants

"there's a place...I go to, when times are dark Larry..."

"the top drawer of my office desk?"

"yes two of the large yellow pills, with scotch"

I'm pretty sure there won't be anymore til Shandling's dead.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, April 27, 2007 1:27 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

Morbzfail

ive been watching all of these on netflix from the start to the end and there isnt a single episode where hank doesnt make me laugh out loud

Hank Kingsley: [dictating "Hank's Thoughts" for a newsletter] : If I had my druthers, there would be no more world hunger.

I lol every time at the recurring joke of Hank saying a bunch of dumb shit (inevitably ending with something like "I'm not stupid, y'know") and Artie responding "I don't agree with a single thing you just said"

Hank's Thoughts: "I could really go for a Creamsicle right now."

Just watched the one where Hank is walking around with bronzer on his face the entire episode.

druthers

I've never seen any of this show. I think I should probably change that esp since it's avail on netflix.

oh lord. stop the buffy watching right now and start this.

tbh buffy sorta failed to grab me - i'm gonna start this tonight I think

Buffy is more dated than LS, that's for sure

So yeah, this is pretty great, huh?

You know what I keep thinking about as I watch it? How badly Shandling messed up his face. He was in something last year (Iron Man 2 maybe) and he looked awful. Like really bad plastic surgery. NAGL at all. RIP Shandling's real face.

lol

http://cinesnark.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/gary-shandling-iron-man-21.jpg

It doesn't even look that bad in this pic but it was really awful in action.

He said on Twitter the other day it's from laser eye surgery and denied he'd had any other work done.

hmmmmmmmm

yeah he looks terrible but i guess it's kinda in character to have work done

Hopefully he got some ass lipo for complete verisimilitude.

my first look at Garry's new face was in the extras for the It's The Garry Shandling Show and dude has clearly had some bad botox/collagen or something. it was alarming at first sight.

<3 Rip Torn.

misread that, thought you'd typed RIP Rip Torn, and already had my black armband on

Me too. Was a disconcerting few seconds.

me too!

i would be one of Artie's many wives

Oh man guys, sorry to freak you out!

Shandling is supposed to be on WTF next week

when i was growing up i went to a family doctor who bore an uncanny resemblance to gary shandling both in looks and mannerisms. it was weird. he was really cool. though. he had the bedside manner down to a t so that for example he would be sticking that weird thing in your ear but it would be totally chill.

we should all aspire to that brand of ugliness and chillaxification. i know i do.

shandling is so painful to watch/listen to in interviews

haha i think that maybe the reason this show worked so well is bcuz of how believable it was that the actor was really like that irl

Rip Torn too. You can believe in the multiple failed marriages, romances with Angie Dickinson etc.