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."
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 June 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
"Does the name Sally Jeesy Raphael mean anything to you???'
― Serial Chiller (sunny successor), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 10 June 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― hella screens (am0n), Friday, 10 June 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
if you guys want to seeing something really weird and uncomfortable watch the interview of gary shandling by ricky gervais on youtube
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 10 June 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
adolph hankler
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 July 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone here ever read the Larry Sanders autobiography and if so -- is it worth reading?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― dave kohl (sic), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
its written in character and it ain't all that great, mordy: typical subpar comedy book.
― i'm not a lawyer, but i play one on a messageboard (stevie), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
i got it at a dollar store!
― cave duel (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
for a dollar
― cave duel (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― sbgorf (stevie), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
watched the last episode last night - superlol at Hanks' final diatribe/meltdown post-show, so awesome.
― Air Supply dwarf belts helpless Packers fan (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 26 September 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 26 September 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Jouster, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
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
― piscesx, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
I think there's been a lot of discussion in a lot of disparate threads. Maybe my favorite show ever, definitely top three.
― Dr. Buzzard's® Original Banana Bread (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
Hank and The Crying Game
― Neil S, Monday, 22 July 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
Larry's agent is played by Bob Odenkirk aka Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad
― Neil S, Monday, 22 July 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
Odenkirk has been criminally under-employed ever since, but hopefully that will be changing soon.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 22 July 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
larry's producer is played by rip torn aka maax from beastmaster
― balls, Monday, 22 July 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IgD32TVWaQ
― dylannn, Monday, 22 July 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
norm macdonald from a minute with stan hooper btw
― dylannn, Monday, 22 July 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
I swear that youtube cuts off the punchline to that amazing scene w/norm and the fonz. that is possibly my favourite episode ever.
― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets. (stevie), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 08:32 (ten years ago) link
more interesting Larry Sanders facts coming right up!
Here's the Hank clip I mentioned above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzznBDz-758
― Neil S, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 09:31 (ten years ago) link
this is the best show ever. must rewatch it all sometime.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 09:49 (ten years ago) link
The first four seasons are on Lovefilm instant in the UK, worth £10/month of anybody's money IMO.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 09:51 (ten years ago) link
Think I have them on an old ITV4 record I downloaded.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 09:58 (ten years ago) link
so great
― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 10:52 (ten years ago) link
Fun Larry Sanders fact: Larry's lawyer is Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks!!!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
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".
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
younger folk are just an inexhaustible supply of wrong opinions
― Mordy , Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
90 percent of everything ppl much younger than me find funny seems completely unfunny to me, i think this is called getting old
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 01:02 (ten years ago) link
US ilxors: whole thing is now free to stream on crackle.com
― sktsh, Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
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.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
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
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
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
:(((((((
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
expected him to outlive Rip Torn, still kickin' at 85
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
those DVDs did come out
xp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Actually just wrapped up another full series viewing a few months ago. Didn't think I'd be ready to start again, but...
― Dominique, Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link
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).
― Eckrich® Pickled Pig Doin's (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
Oh wait, fuck, just realized why this was revived...
― Eckrich® Pickled Pig Doin's (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
yeah :-(
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfNHX_gVKJ0
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 March 2016 01:46 (eight years ago) link
― 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
― someone who just gets annoyed at bad tweets (stevie), Friday, 25 March 2016 08:17 (eight years ago) link
Good ep that and thankfully the one where Piven's character is sacked, never rated him at all.
― calzino, Friday, 25 March 2016 10:07 (eight years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Friday, 25 March 2016 12:36 (eight years ago) link
I liked Piven. He's great at playing unpleasant and rather pathetic characters, which possibly isn't much of a stretch for him.
― someone who just gets annoyed at bad tweets (stevie), Friday, 25 March 2016 12:39 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H3Q8gMUlck
"That is wrong on so many levels."
― clemenza, Friday, 25 March 2016 12:48 (eight years ago) link