RIP to a true comic innovator.
I’m pretty sure the word is “legendary,” not “legandary.”
It’s a puzzle that Trump hasn’t sent out a mean tweet about Shandling.
Beverly - BEVERLY? Look at this, will you? Has Artie seen this? What - Angie Dickinson AGAIN? Look, can we at least spell “LEGENDARY” with one less “A”, otherwise we come across like we’re hosting Mayor Rob Ford’s wake. And tell Hank we’re firing his idiot nephew.
- Barry Handling
If you didn’t see Lawrence O’Donnell’s tribute to Shandling on MSNBC, you missed one of the creepiest I’ve ever seen. O’Donnell was gushing so much that I thought he and Shandling were close friends. Find out that O’Donnell used to see him on the street while walking to Starbucks and maybe said a couple of words to him on occasion. O’Donnell went on and on and on like a pathetic fanboy. Just horrible.
I never met Shandling, and I’m pretty sure if having seen him somewhere in LA or Arizona - which I did a few times - if I’d approached him and started talking, he’d look at me like I might be a John Lennon assassin type and find a way to scuttle away before things went from awkward - which he liked; he was an aficionado of awkward, so long as it was funny - to threatening. So, I actually identified with O’Donnell’s admission of regret, and I suppose it just goes to show it takes all kinds to make up this species, which is, on the whole, a good thing.
Oh, it’s definitely misspelled. One of the most atrocious typos on TPM yet. Proofread, please, Caitlin, and at minimum use your spellchecker.
I was on the CBS sports blog earlier and a writer spelled “rigid” as “ridged”. I thought, “OK, you got it wrong. But where was your editor? And your articles aren’t run through spellcheck? Ridged? Really?”
The Gary Sanders Show was amazing. Such a breakthrough show. Gary Shandling was brilliant and he will be missed.
Dang. TPM’s automatic spam reduction system makes it hard to move a misdirected reply, but I was trying to make the point that “spell checkers” are used by witches, while mere mortals are better served using spelling checkers. At any rate, it’s possible that Caitlin was talking about Shandling’s mutton and milk operation, “Leg and Dairy.”
You’re nuts. It was fine.
When I first saw it, I thought Seinfeld was sort of imitating It’s Gary Shandling’s Show. The main character was a comic playing himself, and Seinfeld began with clips of Seinfeld performing his “real-life” stand-up act. I’ve always wondered whether the initial idea to create and broadcast Seinfeld came from someone borrowing elements of Shandling’s show.
Even the names are similar: Gary Shandling/Jerry Seinfeld. Coincidence…?
Anyway, the Larry Sanders Show was the greatest, IMHO.