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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Garry Shandling
groove76 — 11 years ago(March 09, 2015 11:46 PM)
Big "Larry Sanders Show" fan and expectedly it made me a fan of Shandling. I just watched the recent interview with Shandling on "The Late Late Show" with Judd Apatow as host with Jeff Goldblum and it got me thinking.
While he has practically no relevance with audiences today in 2015, it seems like he's invited on talk shows as an honorary guest and as a sign of respect by former colleagues (as they should be doing) more than anything else. But Shandling seems like an extremely sensitive, thoughtful, introverted, lonely man these days lost in his own brilliant mind. I agree that he is regularly awkward on-camera in interviews and makes odd jokes that fall flat way too often, or that he can even come across as a "washed-up douche bag" but I somehow relate to that all and think instead these are symptoms of someone who is complex, misunderstood, neglected.
I really like Shandling. I just can't help but wonder what happened to him or what goes on in the mind of someone like him. How do you hang it up for the most part after "Larry Sanders"? So many creative people rely on the creative process to go on living but a part of me thinks he quit out of vanity, that he didn't like his appearance for some reason. Or maybe he made all his money and that was it. Wish he'd write a book explaining as I feel like comedy was deprived of him for no good reason over the past 15+ years and he's suffered because of it.
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cannotlogon103 — 11 years ago(March 16, 2015 06:59 PM)
I suspect he has really s5b4oured on the entertainment industry considering all the litigation that grew out of The Larry Sanders Show. Further, to have tremendous success and receive such critical acclaim for a project as he did with TLSS can be paralyzing.
The combination of the acrimony associated with TLSS and trying to top it, creatively, may just have been too much to overcome.
That said, and for what it's worth, he has a legacy with TLSS that pretty much everyone in Hollywood would kill for.
Garry, we hardly knew ye