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Garry Shandling Dead at 66 (1 Viewer)

Just watched the Shandling episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. He got off one of the top ten lines i ever heard. Talking about those days guys in their 60s who haven't taken very good care of themselves get where the heart announces pretty early on that it really doesn't want to beat the number of times it's gonna take to get you all the way through your day, he said "You feel like you want a divorce, even though you're not married.". It's a half hour later and i'm still weeping cuz that's so good and he's so gone. I also didn't know there was a comic Seinfeld, a necessarily reserved guy, actually loved. It was obvious in this ep these brothers in breaking-in, Carsonning and changing the world of the sitcom together very much did. wikkid say check it.

 
I'm a couple decades late appreciating Shandling's genius, binging Larry Sanders on the HBO Go app. What a hilarious & groundbreaking show. I was negligent as a comedy fan never getting into this when it first aired. Also his Comedians in Cars with Seinfeld is great (as is that whole series as well). 

 
McGarnicle said:
I'm a couple decades late appreciating Shandling's genius, binging Larry Sanders on the HBO Go app. What a hilarious & groundbreaking show. I was negligent as a comedy fan never getting into this when it first aired. Also his Comedians in Cars with Seinfeld is great (as is that whole series as well). 
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Funny, just re-watched Larry Sanders after 15 years or so and in season 6 of my first run at Curb.  So awesome.

 
McGarnicle said:
Speechless. I never knew this existed or that they were friends.
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yeah, i'm sure there's an explanation somewhere on the web, but i have no idea what they were doing it for.  garry seems to indicate that he was filming a lot of conversations, but I'm not sure what for.  There is a Sony (i think?) copyright at the end. 

 
still not sure if this was the sole reason that he did the interviews, but apparently they were released as part of the Larry Sanders DVD box set.  Which I now realize that I own, but never went all the way through it since I've seen the episodes before.  :mellow:

 
http://splitsider.com/2018/02/heres-the-trailer-for-judd-apatows-hbo-documentary-the-zen-diaries-of-garry-shandling/

HBO released the first trailer for Judd Apatow’s two-part, four-hour Garry Shandling documentary, titled The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling ... the documentary features over 40 of Shandling’s family members and friends, including James L. Brooks, Sarah Silverman, Jim Carrey, Conan O’Brien, Jerry Seinfeld, and more, plus “four decades’ worth of TV appearances, along with personal journals, private letters and candid home audio and video footage that reveal his brilliant mind and restless soul.” In the trailer, Apatow calls Shandling “the most important mentor that I had — but in a lot of ways, he was a mystery to me.” HBO will air the documentary on Monday, March 26th and Tuesday the 27th.
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I caught the tail end of the documentary last night.  Just that voice brought me back to being a kid, watching late night Garry Shandling's Show.   

 
Although I wasn't a huge fan, I always liked Shandling. The HBO doc was really incredible though, even if you weren't a fan. I had no idea about the inner struggle he dealt with and didn't know anything about his brother. It's always sad and a bit perplexing to me when I see someone that just can't learn to enjoy their success and enjoy life, especially when they have to hide behind jokes to cover up that pain. It really bummed me out seeing all the writing he was doing, trying to make sense of it all. The doc definitely puts him in a new light for me.

RIP Garry.

 
belljr said:
I didn't know he was THAT influential to that many people
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With his two sitcoms, he's more responsible than anybody for taking the lid off thinking persons' venal, petty inner selfishness as an entertainment device, which is kinda the threshhold of 21st C comedy

 
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I'm very loyal in a relationship. Any relationship. When I go out with my mom, I don't look at other moms and go, "I wonder what her macaroni and cheese tastes like."

 
belljr said:
I didn't know he was THAT influential to that many people
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Same here.  I think for me it's because his hit shows were when I was in high school and college.  I didn't really watch "It's Garry Shandling's Show" when I was in high school and I didn't watch much TV at all when I was in college, and I don't think I had HBO in college anyway.

Overall, I thought the documentary was very interesting, but too long.  I got a little bored by the end of both parts.

 
jamny said:
Although I wasn't a huge fan, I always liked Shandling. The HBO doc was really incredible though, even if you weren't a fan. I had no idea about the inner struggle he dealt with and didn't know anything about his brother. It's always sad and a bit perplexing to me when I see someone that just can't learn to enjoy their success and enjoy life, especially when they have to hide behind jokes to cover up that pain. It really bummed me out seeing all the writing he was doing, trying to make sense of it all. The doc definitely puts him in a new light for me.

RIP Garry.
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I would completely recommend viewing or completely revisiting "The Larry Sanders Show".  Also,  the Ricky Gervais interview.  I love Gervais, but Gary absolutely smashed him - it was so uncomfortable, but this time the tables were turned on Ricky.  

ETA:  part 1

Garry's explanation of what happened.

 
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jamny said:
Although I wasn't a huge fan, I always liked Shandling. The HBO doc was really incredible though, even if you weren't a fan. I had no idea about the inner struggle he dealt with and didn't know anything about his brother. It's always sad and a bit perplexing to me when I see someone that just can't learn to enjoy their success and enjoy life, especially when they have to hide behind jokes to cover up that pain. It really bummed me out seeing all the writing he was doing, trying to make sense of it all. The doc definitely puts him in a new light for me.

RIP Garry.
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I loved the Larry Sanders Show and just starting watching it again with my wife.  The very first episode with him being forced to do the "GardenWeasel" commercial is so funny when he screwed it up on purpose

Gary in real life seem like a very good but very troubled man.  It was sad to watch because he just seemed like he wanted people to love him.

 Many comedians seem to run this path

 
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Binky The Doormat said:
I would completely recommend viewing or completely revisiting "The Larry Sanders Show".  Also,  the Ricky Gervais interview.  I love Gervais, but Gary absolutely smashed him - it was so uncomfortable, but this time the tables were turned on Ricky.  

ETA:  part 1

Garry's explanation of what happened.
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We watched the show when it was originally on and rewatched them all again last year.

Thanks for the Gervais links.  Will definitely check it out.

 
Part 1 of the documentary is absolutely brilliant. It's not just a film about Garry Shandling, but it's a film about life.

Part 2 has some moments that get bogged down with negativity, but maybe I'm just uncomfortable with the idea that one of my comedic heroes ruthlessly cut some of his friends out of his life (e.g., Bob Saget) and selfishly strung along his girlfriend when he knew that she wanted kids and he didn't.

I would love to see his diaries get published, though.

 
Joe Summer said:
Part 1 of the documentary is absolutely brilliant. It's not just a film about Garry Shandling, but it's a film about life.

Part 2 has some moments that get bogged down with negativity, but maybe I'm just uncomfortable with the idea that one of my comedic heroes ruthlessly cut some of his friends out of his life (e.g., Bob Saget) and selfishly strung along his girlfriend when he knew that she wanted kids and he didn't.

I would love to see his diaries get published, though.
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haven't seen the film, didn't know the man but knew folks who did. from what i understand, if one knew Shandling, one accepted this part of him up front, though it might be storyworthy to look back on it differently years later.

two factors need explaining (again, perhaps the film did): 1) comedy is more about editing than inspiration. one can clean&clean&clean the beats of a bit, have it work perfect for years and then HATE the damn thing a year later and torture oneself forever for what one missed on it. if one is not obsessive about that, one literally dies. comics have all & always been excisive in their personal lives as a result. 2) LA. i was in the rockbiz for a while in the 70s. we did what we thought were rockish things in a rockish way but, when we got to LA, we realized we were pikers. even British Invasion rockers realized they were pikers when they got there (tho their act was much more suited to conversion than eastern US rockers). the hotness, the cheapness, the highness, the fameness, the pimpness, the mudsharkness are all 11s there and it will inhale you. for a comic who was all about himself so he could be all about you, there were many canyons to be fallen into and climbed out of in a career in the Southland. EVERYTHING takes a toll in that world. hope that explains a little.

 
Joe Summer said:
Part 1 of the documentary is absolutely brilliant. It's not just a film about Garry Shandling, but it's a film about life.

Part 2 has some moments that get bogged down with negativity, but maybe I'm just uncomfortable with the idea that one of my comedic heroes ruthlessly cut some of his friends out of his life (e.g., Bob Saget) and selfishly strung along his girlfriend when he knew that she wanted kids and he didn't.

I would love to see his diaries get published, though.
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Just watched this weekend - wow just wow - I was really blown away....Its Garry Shandling Show was my 1st real show that I found as a teen...it was strange...it broke down the walls with the audience and was just so different than anything else on TV but that was his kind of humor.  

I had no idea what a complex person he was struggling to find inner peace.  Completely agree with the above - the 1st part is just epic and you dont have to be a fan to love the ride as well as the very deep thoughts he had along the way.  

I also was a bit bummed by the 2d but appreciated the full picture given by Apatow when he could have easily revised history and presented a more sanitized/tribute piece.  It was realistic and sad...

Really well done - check it out if you havent yet.  

 
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