the Larry Sanders Show

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.

Oh man if Shandling is painful to listen to in interviews (can't remember ever seeing/hearing one) then the Maron ep should be extra awkward.

man, the episode where larry's gf tries to use him to get on the show, and then goes out w/network vp roger bingham is so intense! when artie walks in on their date and threatens him, it's like something out of the godfather

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIzPVGn8Xes

Maladroit! Great highlight reel, but they cut off one of Artie's greatest lines ever around the 1:00 mark: "Hank, some of the things you do are...not quite right."

"Does the name Sally Jeesy Raphael mean anything to you???'

For those of you who haven't yet, you really need to listen to the WTF podcast episode with the Garry Shandling interview. It made me love him even more.

watching this on netflix recently. love where hank tries to kiss larry to thank him for buying (or betting on?) a racehorse, larry cringes saying "i don't give a fuck about a horse, i have a car."

if you guys want to seeing something really weird and uncomfortable watch the interview of gary shandling by ricky gervais on youtube

adolph hankler

has anyone here ever read the Larry Sanders autobiography and if so -- is it worth reading?

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.

"He's not dead, he's in the hospital."
"I don't think so."
"Larry's talking to him on the phone!"
"Well, that remains to be seen."

its written in character and it ain't all that great, mordy: typical subpar comedy book.

i got it at a dollar store!

for a dollar

not sure if this is mentioned upthread, but if yr english, and you buy the region 2 release to save a bit of cash over getting the import, be aware that you'll be missing out on all the extra gubbins. i didn't know this, and am pretty bummed about it tbh.

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.