Garry Shandling

It's only a gofer's job, honey! When Dave Letterman stepped out into the spotlight on stage last night, I was taken aback when I noticed that his suit jacket was  "loose" on his wiry frame. Has Dave lost weight in the throes of the drama that unfolded this past week over at CBS? Although the perky talk-show host untied one button about twenty minutes into the broadcast and alleviated the obvious visual reveal a tad (was that a  conscious or unconcious nevous habit?) - Dave persisted with a lot of hand-wrenching and a distracting facial tick or two. In spite of the fact the ... Read Full Story

In four decades of comedy writing, Alan Zweibel’s work has provided an enormous range of good answers to the constantly shifting cultural question of “What’s funny?” From the mainstream to the bizarrely experimental, Zweibel has written a number of plays, novels, films, sitcoms, one-liners, and sketches. He sold jokes to Catskills comics for $7 a piece in the early ‘70s before he was hired by Lorne Michaels to be one of the original staff writers on the first five years of Saturday Night Live , where he was responsible for the iconic Samurai sketch with John Belushi and worked alongside Gilda Radner to create ... Read Full Story

After spurning a regular guest-host gig for Johnny Carson, and before his career-defining role as fictional host of The Larry Sanders Show, comedian Garry Shandling starred on one of TV’s most innovative sitcoms. Nearly 20 years after It’s Garry Shandling’s Show ended its 1986-1990 run on Showtime, the offbeat, unconventional series remains a high-water mark of Shandling’s long career. “There was so much improvisation. It was incredibly breakthrough – there was just nothing like it,” says Shandling, 59. Available for the first time Tuesday in a 72-episode, 16-DVD set, Shandling’s Show was little-watched but big on concept for its time, with Shandling and co-creator ... Read Full Story

Garry Shandling Plastic Surgery , Mr. Pellicano’s version of theater of the absurd — his relentless and pointless cross-examination of his former employee, Tarita Virtue — was mercifully interrupted this morning for some star-studded testimony by comedian Garry Shandling. Mr. Shandling, dressed in a dark suit and crisp white shirt and looking quite dapper, gave the jury an up close glimpse at one of Mr. Pellicano’s alleged wiretapping victims. During his testimony, he seemed genuinely distressed that during his lawsuit with former manager, Brad Grey, his phones had been wiretapped, his character publicly assassinated and his reputation in town tarnished. When Mr. Shandling was ... Read Full Story

Garry Shandling Plastic Surgery , Mr. Pellicano’s version of theater of the absurd — his relentless and pointless cross-examination of his former employee, Tarita Virtue — was mercifully interrupted this morning for some star-studded testimony by comedian Garry Shandling. Mr. Shandling, dressed in a dark suit and crisp white shirt and looking quite dapper, gave the jury an up close glimpse at one of Mr. Pellicano’s alleged wiretapping victims. During his testimony, he seemed genuinely distressed that during his lawsuit with former manager, Brad Grey, his phones had been wiretapped, his character publicly assassinated and his reputation in town tarnished. When Mr. Shandling was ... Read Full Story