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
I'm guessing this has been shared, but... http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/garry-shandling-its-great-that-garry-shandling-is-still-alive
― someone who just gets annoyed at bad tweets (stevie), Friday, 25 March 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link
I am probably being a bit harsh on his role in TLSS and retrospectively hating on him for his later crimes like Entourage.
― calzino, Friday, 25 March 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
awards
https://twitter.com/DPD_/status/713217965555073024
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 March 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
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...
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 April 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
i would bet they didn't. it's the smart thing to do to just call it The Network.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 April 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
I was just trying to work it out via process of elimination
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 April 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
all shows like that exist in a parallel universe
like the Harold & Kumar one where N.P. Harris is heterosexual
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 April 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
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 ConanABC ruled out due to being against NightlineCBS 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.
― Dominique, Friday, 1 April 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
you both need a TV enema
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 April 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link