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...Shandling, though, the sentiments seem both authentic and well considered. It's not always true, as the shibboleth holds, that the best comedy grows out of characters, not jokes, but the characters on Larry Sanders really are what make it so funny. The one-liners, the self-mocking guest stars, the setting so rich in hypocrisy--these would have been enough to make Larry Sanders a very clever show; the human-behavior bit has made it a classic...
...virtues of the show on display. Larry's talk show is ending as well, and he is nervous about who will appear on the final night. There are some perfect moments of celebrity humiliation: Larry chases Warren Beatty in the parking lot and asks him to be a guest to say goodbye. Beatty says, "I could say goodbye to you now." Larry's needy sidekick, Hank, and his blustering producer, Artie, have always been at the center of the show, and in the last episode too they have wonderful scenes. Artie bucks up Larry when it turns out that Clint...
Shandling held his own with these two. There is an episode in which a staff member runs down a list of possible guest hosts while another keeps responding, "Threatens Larry...Threatens Larry," and Shandling's slightly wide-eyed expression (more pronounced in a face that seems to carry three extra layers of flesh) perfectly conveys the sense that Larry is always threatened--by the chance his girlfriend Illeanna Douglas will make a bad guest or that George Segal will be booked again...
...would be best, of course, if you were a player, a singer, a fellow musician. But with luck and fine timing, you could also be a casual guest, a dinner companion, a colleague's spouse--even, if the furies were snoozing, a journalist. In 1988 Sinatra, the paragon of show-biz sangfroid, told Larry King, "I swear on my mother's soul, the first four or five seconds, I tremble every time I take the step and I walk out of the wing onto the stage, because I wonder if it will be there when I go for the first...
...stayed one night," says Kaplan. "I was sitting in the middle of the yurt, on Turkmen carpets, and they roasted a lamb outside. The vodka is sitting in the middle of the yurt in the middle of the desert." Though Kaplan enjoyed his stay, being the affable guest can take a toll. "You're not sure all the time what you're eating," he says. "You're up late, and the host always wants you to drink far too much. So it gets a little draining...