Editing Jeff Garlin (section)

==Early life==
Garlin was born on June 5, 1962, in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], to Gene<ref name=ChicagoTrib-FatherObit-2011>{{cite news|title=Gene A. Garlin|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?pid=154436473|access-date=January 23, 2015|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|publisher=[[Legacy.com]]|date=November 2, 2011}}</ref> and Carole (née Crafton) Garlin. He grew up in [[Morton Grove, Illinois]],<ref name=FamilySearch-USPR-2008a>{{cite web|title=Gene A Garlin - United States Public Records|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KLXT-G23|website=FamilySearch.org|access-date=January 23, 2015}}</ref> where his father owned a plumbing supply business called Bilko and his mother was active in community theater. He has a younger brother, Michael.<ref name=WTF-Maron-2015>{{cite web|last1=Maron|first1=Marc|title=Episode 567 - Jeff Garlin|url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_567_-_jeff_garlin|website=[[WTF with Marc Maron]]|access-date=January 23, 2015|format=Audio podcast|date=January 12, 2015}}</ref> Garlin is [[Jewish]]<ref name=JewishJournal-2010>{{cite web|last=Torok|first=Ryan|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/summer_sneaks/article/jeff_garlinseriously_20100601|title=Jeff Garlin...Seriously|work=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|Jewish Journal]]|date=June 1, 2010|access-date=August 24, 2010|archive-date=August 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824185935/http://www.jewishjournal.com/summer_sneaks/article/jeff_garlinseriously_20100601/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and attended [[Hebrew school]].<ref name=SomethingJewish-2004>{{cite web|last=Westbrook|first=Caroline|url=http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1229_jeff_garlin.htm|title=Jeff Garlin interview|work=www.somethingjewish.co.uk|quote=...very proud and happy to be Italian, and I think everything that I do is naturally Jewish.|date=October 19, 2004|access-date=June 23, 2010|archive-date=January 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105165004/http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1229_jeff_garlin.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=TavisSmiley-2005>{{cite web|last=Smiley|first=Tavis|url=https://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200509/20050912_garlin.html|title=Jeff Garlin profile|work=[[The Tavis Smiley Show]]|quote=I guess you could say – I mean, I'm Jewish, Larry's Jewish.|date=September 12, 2005|access-date=June 23, 2010|archive-date=May 31, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531163759/http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200509/20050912_garlin.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Garlin has said he wanted to be a comedian since he was eight, when he saw [[Jimmy Durante]] perform in Chicago.<ref name=JewishJournal-2010/> Garlin attended Melzer Elementary School in Morton Grove.<ref name="DailyHerald-2011"/> He enjoyed playing sports at school, but had to stop after being diagnosed with [[Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome]], a heart ailment.<ref name=WTF-Maron-2015/>

When Garlin was in sixth grade, his father sold his supply business and the family relocated to South Florida.<ref name=DailyHerald-2011>{{cite news|last1=Sotonoff|first1=Jamie|title=Jeff Garlin: Spontaneous, sugar-free and suburb-loving|url=http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110607/news/706079986|access-date=January 23, 2015|work=[[Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)|Daily Herald]]|publisher=Paddock Publications|date=June 7, 2011}}</ref> He graduated from [[Nova High School]] in [[Davie, Florida]], in 1980. He attended [[Broward Community College]], followed by a stint studying film at the [[University of Miami]], where he first began to perform stand-up comedy.<ref name=ClevelandJewish-2008>{{cite web|url=http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2008/03/06/features/arts/aarts0306.txt|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723060106/http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2008/03/06/features/arts/aarts0306.txt|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 23, 2012|title=Jeff Garlin definitely will not curb your enthusiasm|work=[[Cleveland Jewish News]]|last=Fine|first=Arlene|date=March 6, 2008|access-date=July 3, 2010}}</ref>