the Larry Sanders Show

watched the last episode last night - superlol at Hanks' final diatribe/meltdown post-show, so awesome.

Somewhere upthread I said I thought it was great, but would have been even better if he hadn't come back for the mushy stuff.

But isn't it very Hank, that whole scene? I don't like it as much with just the venom or just the mushy stuff, need both halves.

surprised this show didn't ever get more love on ILX although obvs it was all over by the time ILX began.

still so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxcDpqB7OxQ

I think there's been a lot of discussion in a lot of disparate threads. Maybe my favorite show ever, definitely top three.

Hank and The Crying Game

Larry's agent is played by Bob Odenkirk aka Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad

Odenkirk has been criminally under-employed ever since, but hopefully that will be changing soon.

larry's producer is played by rip torn aka maax from beastmaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IgD32TVWaQ

norm macdonald from a minute with stan hooper btw

I swear that youtube cuts off the punchline to that amazing scene w/norm and the fonz. that is possibly my favourite episode ever.

more interesting Larry Sanders facts coming right up!

Here's the Hank clip I mentioned above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzznBDz-758

this is the best show ever. must rewatch it all sometime.

The first four seasons are on Lovefilm instant in the UK, worth £10/month of anybody's money IMO.

Think I have them on an old ITV4 record I downloaded.

so great

Fun Larry Sanders fact: Larry's lawyer is Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks!!!

It is the best show ever. It saddens me that a lot of younger folk I speak to haven't seen this and seem to think Entourage is "hilarious".

younger folk are just an inexhaustible supply of wrong opinions

younger folk are just an inexhaustible supply of wrong opinions

On the estate where I live this is probably 90 odd percent the case, liking shit comedy is only a fraction of the problem with them.

90 percent of everything ppl much younger than me find funny seems completely unfunny to me, i think this is called getting old

US ilxors: whole thing is now free to stream on crackle.com

I so didn't give a shit about the OJ Simpson trial, but the ep they did on it was the most acute thing i ever saw or heard about it.

Last week, Shandling great when Letterman said "You're a guy who wants a family someday..." GS: "Don't you think I better start in the next 6 hours?"
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:39 AM

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

― american thinker (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:47 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:(((((((

expected him to outlive Rip Torn, still kickin' at 85

those DVDs did come out

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Actually just wrapped up another full series viewing a few months ago. Didn't think I'd be ready to start again, but...

It's up there with the first five seasons of Roseanne as a show I would happily start rewatching anytime (and have done several times over).

Oh wait, fuck, just realized why this was revived...

yeah :-(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfNHX_gVKJ0

expected him to outlive Rip Torn, still kickin' at 85

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, March 24, 2016 9:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

exactly what I thought as I watched the magnificent Larry's Birthday last night

Good ep that and thankfully the one where Piven's character is sacked, never rated him at all.

I'd have to go back and rewatch the first season, but I remember really liking Piven (wasn't he great at mocking Hank?). At the very least, the episode where he loses his job over the intern was classic.

One of the best and atypical things about Larry Sanders was how they had the show and the characters figured out right from the first episode. To one degree or another, watching the first seasons of Seinfeld, The Simpsons, All in the Family, and so many others is like watching a different show. (Ed Asner and Ted Knight don't find their characters for a while on Mary Tyler Moore.) The entire run of Larry Sanders is of a piece, though. (Maybe Hank wasn't quite so buffoonish in the first couple of episodes, but the difference is minimal.)

I liked Piven. He's great at playing unpleasant and rather pathetic characters, which possibly isn't much of a stretch for him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H3Q8gMUlck

"That is wrong on so many levels."

I'm guessing this has been shared, but... http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/garry-shandling-its-great-that-garry-shandling-is-still-alive

I am probably being a bit harsh on his role in TLSS and retrospectively hating on him for his later crimes like Entourage.

awards

https://twitter.com/DPD_/status/713217965555073024

is it ever specified what network the Larry Sanders Show is actually on? They reference other networks that the show is definitely *not* on (NBC, for example) multiple times, but I can't recall if they ever specified that they were on a fictional network or a cable network or ABC or what...

i would bet they didn't. it's the smart thing to do to just call it The Network.

I was just trying to work it out via process of elimination

all shows like that exist in a parallel universe

like the Harold & Kumar one where N.P. Harris is heterosexual

yeah, by process of elimination, it couldn't have been any non-cable network in the 90s

NBC ruled out due to being against Leno, Letterman and Conan
ABC ruled out due to being against Nightline
CBS ruled out also due to Letterman starting in the mid 90s (not to mention Tom Snyder)

Arsenio Hall's show was syndicated, and I can't remember which local network ran it when I was growing up. I recall jokes about FOX on the show (tho can't recall any off the top of my head -- so maybe Fox?). Best bet is that it would have to been some fictional non-cable broadcast network.

you both need a TV enema

been rewatching from the start and in one of the early episodes someone mentions going to work for cnbc which gets mocked by artie so i assume larry is on network tv.

that's what I thought too but then there was this S1 episode where Arthur was disparaging any show that wasn't on one of the big three networks as being not worth watching lol

idk it doesn't really matter, obviously the show has its cake and eats it too in this respect, all well and good I was just wondering

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xp non-cable network that is.