the Larry Sanders Show

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

xp

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

xp

xp non-cable network that is.

someone mentions going to work for cnbc which gets mocked by artie

yes this is what I was referring to! Hank claiming he's got an offer to do a show with Dick Cavett

right... i couldn't remember exactly who it was.

it's something like "my TV only gets three channels, like a normal person"

lol yes! he's like "cnbc... what is that?"

i still miss grodin's show

it's been awhile- was there ever a scenario dealing w/ other shows on the network that maybe alluded to say friction between snl and the tonight show (both w/ carson and leno) or letterman frustrations w/ cbs prime time tanking during the 90s? iirc though yeah, it was just 'a network', and it was understood to have been on for awhile. it wasn't like w/ 30 rock where they were actually on nbc.

I don't remember ever thinking there was a specific network that was home to the show, or that certain clues pointed in a particular direction. I recall a specific reference to the story recounted in The Late Shift about Leno hiding in the closet. I'll probably watch the box for the third time over the summer.

I don't know that the network was ever specified, but I'd always assumed the show basically took place in an alternate universe where there was one more big television network.

Norns OTM on this. It was always referred to as the network but every existing network and some cable were all dissed on the reg

Norms???? Autocorrected from Morbs

I'm from the UK....what was Grodin's show like?

I love Grodin

it was a format closer to tom snyder or costas' later, generally a one on one conversation, no studio audience, only odd cuz of grodin. i just miss that format in general, costas would have one guest for an entire week.

lol Hank rehearsing his lounge act in the studio with Doc and Tommy late of the Carson show... and wearing tap shoes around the office. Opens with "Spinning Wheel." Artie: "You don't open with a showstopper, Hank."

lol

man I gotta watch all these again

also extremely young Bob Odenkirk as the hotshot snaky agent for whom Larry tosses aside his oldtimer (who takes all his lunches "at Musso's")

yeah I love when Bob shows up this series. Scott Thompson too!

Artie in the Doubt of The Benefit episode I watched the other night: "Charity begins at home .. except in Hollywood where it begins at 7pm every night at every fucking hotel ballroom in town"

I'm as far as "The Party" in my rewatch of the box. One of the things I appreciate is that (much like with the early Simpsons) I am just old enough that all of the 1992 references all make perfect sense to me. Like, can people even five years younger than me why anyone would have been afraid of Dana Carvey stealing their show?

*get* why

Carvey came v close to getting one of those shows... musta been when Conan was hired

carvey tried to do movies and then did his primetime show which was occasionally inspired but has become overrated in some quarters due to having a writing staff that approached caesar's in terms of talent on hand (maybe even louis ck = carl reiner, smigel = brooks, charlie kaufman = woody?). then he had health issues and his moment passed.

Wasn't aware he had health issues. I just noticed that at some point his career became Master of Disguise, and I assume that anyone who wasn't around for SNL and Wayne's World just has no idea who he is now.