Gonzo Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 According to TMZ. . .yes, I know. . .Garry Shandling has passed away at the age of 66. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Possibly the most underrated tV show ever James 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 He was looking old in Captain America Winter Soldier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 The man who actually turned down Late Night on NBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driver Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 This is the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 He had TWO great shows, man. Heil Hydra 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 He seemed to be a fit man for his age. I'd heard several times that he'd gotten way into amateur boxing. The number of television shows from the last 25 years that owe him a debt creatively is incalculable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 In the late 80s early 90s he was the guy who felt like the "alternative" to normal comedy way before there was such a thing as "alt" comedy. Whenever he showed up you knew it was going to be different, more subtle, more ambitious, and you kind of felt like he took pride in how much it never went totally mainstream. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 I've just been reading Judd Apatow's 'Sick in the Head' where he interviews various comedians (And it is 100% worth your time) and he just adores Garry Shandling, who comes across like a genuine, funny sweet guy. Plus, I just re-watced 'The Larry Sanders Show' in its (almost) entirety these past couple months (It's a cheap set and a couple episodes are missing) and it's so wonderful: such a blueprint for the next decade or so of comedy. Never had a chance to watch 'It's Garry Shandling's Show' but hoping to get ahold of it in the not-too-distant future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 I suppose that I'll now flip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidNatural Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Those of us who are in our forties and older... We are truly getting to the time in our lives where life takes more than it gives. RIP to one of the funniest people I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Indeed. I always thought he was closer to my age, but 66 is still too young to go. RIP to one of the funniest people I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ray Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Garry on a recent episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee With the now unfortunate title of the episode “It's Great That Garry Shandling Is Still Alive”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 I grew up watching The Larry Sanders Show on semi-scrambled HBO (along with Dream On and... ugh... Dennis Miller). Fantastic stuff. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 The Larry Sanders Show was a thing I'd watch on late night TV as a teenager and some of it was over my head, but it was so goddamn good. I need to revisit it at some point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clintthecrippler Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Its Garry Shandling's Show was probably one of the first "adult humor" shows I got into as a kid. I couldn't have been more than 9 or 10 years old, and I certainly didn't get all of the jokes, but I think the fact that it was very much an adult comedy show but it was still wrapped in an absurdist shell was what appealed to me and was so memorable. Breaking the fourth wall years before my generation knew Zach Morris for it, the episode where he invited the studio audience to house-sit for him, the episode where he had to get across town in a short amount of time so he stepped in front of the living room set in the studio and drove a golf cart 30 feet across the studio to the "across town" set. All of it gold and really helped shape my preference for the humor I would gravitate towards in my later years. Garry Shandling was ground zero for me gravitating to things like Kids In the Hall and MST3K during my teen years, Mr Show during my college years, and shows like Rick and Morty and Review with Forrest McNeill in recent years. And obviously, the greatness of the Larry Sanders Show, though also predated by him doing a great job of skewering the conventions of late night television a few years prior with The Garry Shandling Show 25th Anniversary Special. And my favorite joke from his stand up routine: "After we were finished, I asked 'was it good for you?' She said 'I don't think this was good for anybody?'" Thank you Garry Shandling for opening the doors to a whole new comedic world for this impressionable kid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 HBO is going to show all of Larry Sanders Show soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Evanier on Garry http://www.newsfromme.com/2016/03/24/garry/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Fuck you, Mr. Stark. Fuck you, buddy. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 15 hours ago, Death From Above said: The Larry Sanders Show was a thing I'd watch on late night TV as a teenager and some of it was over my head, but it was so goddamn good. I need to revisit it at some point. This and Dream On on Comedy Network were a huge part of my teenage TV watching habits. He was so great and so different from everybody else. I remember being greatly disappointed in that silly movie of his from the mid '90s, but his show was almost always great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 I used to watch my copy of this all the time: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 17 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: I grew up watching The Larry Sanders Show on semi-scrambled HBO (along with Dream On and... ugh... Dennis Miller). Fantastic stuff. RIP To be fair, Dennis was still a ways from going off the deep end at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 True. It's just what he has become is truly appalling. Really dug his tortured linguistics back then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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