Editing Garry Shandling (section)

==Career==
===Early work===
When Shandling was 19, he drove two hours to a club in Phoenix and showed some jokes to [[George Carlin]], who was performing there. The next day, on a repeat round-trip, Carlin told him that he had "funny stuff on every page" and should keep at it.<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/sarah-larson/lots-of-love-for-garry-shandling| title=Lots of Love for Garry Shandling| first=Sarah| last=Larson| date=March 25, 2016| access-date=April 8, 2018| journal=[[New Yorker (magazine)|New Yorker]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/03/garry-shandling-death-anniversary-jeffrey-tambor| title=One Year Later, Comedy's Still Mourning Garry Shandling| first=Donald| last=Liebenson| journal=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]| date=March 24, 2017| access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref> In 1973, he moved to Los Angeles and worked at an advertising agency for a time, then sold a script for the popular [[NBC]] sitcom ''[[Sanford and Son]]''.<ref name=deadline>{{cite web| url=https://deadline.com/2016/03/comedian-writer-actor-and-producer-gary-shandling-dies-at-66-1201726026| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326234704/http://deadline.com/2016/03/comedian-writer-actor-and-producer-gary-shandling-dies-at-66-1201726026/| url-status=dead| archive-date=March 26, 2016| title=Garry Shandling Dies: 'Larry Sanders' Creator-Star Was 66| first=Ross A.| last=Lincoln| website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]| date=March 24, 2016| access-date=March 24, 2016}}</ref> He also wrote scripts for the sitcom ''[[Welcome Back, Kotter]]'' and attended a story meeting for ''[[Three's Company]]''.<ref name=news>{{cite news| url=https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2002/12/25/Cathys-World-Garry-Shandlings-Larry/52871040860003| title=Cathy's World: Garry Shandling's 'Larry'| date=December 25, 2002| website=[[United Press International|UPI]]| access-date=April 27, 2023}}</ref>

===Stand-up comedy===
Shandling said that he became a stand-up comedian because of an incident that happened one day at a story meeting for ''[[Three's Company]]'', in which one of the show's producers complained about a line of dialogue and said, "Well, [[List of Three's Company characters#Chrissy Snow|Chrissy]] wouldn't say that."<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/09/catching-up-with-david-mirkin.html| title=Catching up with David Mirkin| journal=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]| date=September 17, 2012| access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>[[David Mirkin]]</ref> He recalled, "I just looked. I said, 'I don't think I can do this.' And I stopped right there and went on to perform."<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.upi.com/Cathys-World-Garry-Shandlings-Larry/52871040860003/| title=Cathy's World: Garry Shandling's 'Larry'| website=UPI| access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref>

In 1978, Shandling performed his first stand-up routine at [[The Comedy Store]]. A year later, he was one of the few performers to [[Strikebreaker|cross the picket line]] when a group of comedians organized a boycott against the Comedy Store, protesting owner [[Mitzi Shore]]'s policy of not paying comedians to perform. According to [[William Knoedelseder]], Shandling "was the scion of a family with decidedly [[Union busting|antiunion]] views. He had not shared the struggling comic experience. He was a successful sitcom writer trying to break into stand-up, and prior to the strike, Shore had refused to put him in the regular lineup because she didn't think he was good enough. Of course, that changed the minute he crossed the picket line."<ref>{{cite book| last=Knoedelseder| first=William| year=2009| title=I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era| publisher=Public Affairs Books| url=https://archive.org/details/imdyingupherehea00knoe/page/262/mode/2up?q=shandling| location=New York| page=262| isbn=978-1-5864-8317-3}}</ref>

Shandling's onstage persona was an anxiety-ridden, nervous, uptight, conservative man on the verge of a breakdown.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://forward.com/culture/336992/why-garry-shandling-was-one-of-the-greatest-jewish-comedians-ever/| title=Why Garry Shandling Was One of the Greatest Jewish Comedians Ever| website=[[The Forward]]| date=March 25, 2016| first=Jason| last=Diamond| access-date=April 27, 2023}}</ref> After a couple of years on the road, he was booked by a talent scout from ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' to appear as a guest in 1981. Shandling substituted for Carson on a regular basis until 1987,<ref name=deadline /> when he left to focus on his cable show, leaving [[Jay Leno]] as permanent guest host and Carson's eventual successor.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

In 1984, Shandling performed his first stand-up special, ''Garry Shandling: Alone in Vegas'' for [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]],<ref>{{cite news| last=Erickson| first=Hal| url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/62749/Garry-Shandling-Alone-in-Las-Vegas/overview| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021213215/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/62749/Garry-Shandling-Alone-in-Las-Vegas/overview|url-status=dead| archive-date=October 21, 2012| department=Movies & TV Dept.| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| title=Garry Shandling: Alone in Las Vegas (1984)| author-link=Hal Erickson (author)| date=October 21, 2012| access-date=June 23, 2009}}</ref> followed by a second televised special in 1986, ''The Garry Shandling Show: 25th Anniversary Special'', also for Showtime.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363631| title=The Garry Shandling Show: 25th Anniversary Special (1986)| website=[[IMDb]]| access-date= June 23, 2009}}</ref> In 1991, a third special, ''Garry Shandling: Stand-Up,'' was part of the ''[[HBO]] Comedy Hour''.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://tv.nytimes.com/show/48296/Garry-Shandling-Stand-Up/details| title=Garry Shandling: Stand-Up| newspaper=The New York Times| access-date=June 23, 2009| archive-date=February 25, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225200519/http://tv.nytimes.com/show/48296/Garry-Shandling-Stand-Up/details| url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Television series===
====''It's Garry Shandling's Show''====
In 1985, Shandling and [[Alan Zweibel]] went on to create ''[[It's Garry Shandling's Show]]''. Through 1990, it ran for 72 episodes on [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]. The edited reruns played on the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox network]] beginning in 1988.<ref name=dollying /> Shandling wrote 15 of the episodes.

The series subverted the standard sitcom format by having its characters openly acknowledge that they were all part of a television series. Building on a concept that hearkened back to ''[[The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show]]'', in which [[George Burns]] would frequently break the "[[fourth wall]]" and speak directly to the audience, Shandling's series went so far as to incorporate the audience and elements of the studio itself into the storylines, calling attention to the show's artifice.<ref name=variety /><ref name=dollying>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-oct-20-et-shandling20-story.html| title=Dollying through that fourth wall on 'It's Garry Shandling's Show': The funny guy deconstructed the sitcom on his Showtime series, which is newly out on DVD| first=Robert| last=Lloyd| newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]| date=October 20, 2009| access-date=March 24, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408040027/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/20/entertainment/et-shandling20| archive-date=April 8, 2016| url-status=live| df=mdy-all}}</ref>

The series was nominated for four Emmy Awards,<ref name=variety /> including one for Shandling. He won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Performance in a Series; and four CableACE awards, two for Best Comedy Series. The show also won an award for [[TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy|Outstanding Achievement in Comedy]] from the [[Television Critics Association]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://tvcritics.org/tca-awards| title=Past winners of the TCA Awards| website=Television Critics Association| access-date=March 24, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401233500/http://tvcritics.org/tca-awards/| archive-date=April 1, 2016| url-status=dead| df=mdy-all}}</ref>

====''The Larry Sanders Show''====
[[File:Garry Shandling (2077238844).jpg|thumb|upright|Shandling during the 1994 Emmy Awards rehearsals]]
In 1992, Shandling launched another critical and commercial success by creating the mock behind-the-scenes talk show sitcom ''[[The Larry Sanders Show]]'', which ran for 89 episodes through to 1998 on [[HBO]]. It garnered 56 [[Emmy Award]] nominations and three wins. Shandling based the series on his experiences guest-hosting ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]''.<ref>{{cite news| title=Garry and Larry and Jeffrey and Hank| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/arts/television/31sanders.html| first=Dave| last=Itzkoff| newspaper=The New York Times| date=October 29, 2010| access-date=March 24, 2016| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In 1993, NBC offered Shandling $5 million to take over ''[[Late Night with David Letterman|Late Night]]'' when [[David Letterman]] announced his highly publicized move to [[CBS]], but Shandling declined. He was subsequently offered ''[[The Late Late Show (CBS TV series)|The Late Late Show]]'', but also declined in favor of continuing ''The Larry Sanders Show''.<ref name=variety /><ref>{{cite book| last=Carter| first=Bill| title=The War For Late Night| year=2010| publisher=Penguin| isbn=978-0-452-29749-4| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WUyzf2cJzu8C&pg=PT47| access-date=March 25, 2016}}</ref>

Shandling wrote 38 episodes of the series and directed three in its final season. He was nominated for 18 Emmy Awards for the series:<ref name="variety" /> five for acting, seven for writing, and six for being co-executive producer with [[Brad Grey]].<ref name=goes-dark>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/31/magazine/garry-shandling-goes-dark.html| title=Garry Shandling Goes Dark| first=Lynn| last=Hirschberg| newspaper=The New York Times| date=May 31, 1998| access-date=March 24, 2016| url-access=subscription}}</ref> He won one Emmy Award for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series|Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series]] for the series finale "[[List of The Larry Sanders Show episodes#Season Six|Flip]]". He was also nominated for two [[Golden Globe Award]]s for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy|Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)]] in 1994 and 1995. He won two [[American Comedy Awards]] for Funniest Male Performance in a Comedy Series, eight [[CableACE Award]]s, and a [[BAFTA Award]].<ref name="deadline" /> The series  influenced other shows, such as ''[[Entourage (U.S. TV series)|Entourage]]'', ''[[30 Rock]]'', and ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'', where guest stars portray themselves.<ref name="obsession">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/arts/television/28stei.html| title=Hey Now: It's Garry Shandling's Obsession| first=Jacques| last=Steinberg| newspaper=The New York Times| date=January 28, 2007| access-date=March 24, 2016| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In 2002, ''[[TV Guide]]'' named ''The Larry Sanders Show'' as 38th Greatest Show of All Time. In 2008, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' ranked it the 28th Best Show of the past 25 years, and it was included on ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's 100 Greatest Shows of All Time.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

The first season was re-released in 2007, along with a ''Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders Show'', Shandling's picks of the best 23 episodes.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.ew.com/article/2007/04/12/not-just-best-larry-sanders-show| title=Not Just the Best of The Larry Sanders Show| magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]| access-date=March 24, 2016}}</ref>

In October 2012, Shandling returned with fellow cast members from ''The Larry Sanders Show'' for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'''s Reunions issue, where he was reunited with co-stars [[Rip Torn]], [[Jeffrey Tambor]], [[Sarah Silverman]], [[Penny Johnson Jerald]], [[Wallace Langham]] and [[Mary Lynn Rajskub]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.ew.com/article/2012/10/12/reunions-2012-garry-shandling-larry-sanders-show| title='Larry Sanders' reunion| magazine=Entertainment Weekly| access-date=March 24, 2016}}</ref>

===Other work===
[[File:Shandling.jpg|thumb|right|Shandling at the 1992 Emmy Awards]]
Shandling hosted the [[Grammy Award]]s in [[32nd Annual Grammy Awards|1990]], [[33rd Annual Grammy Awards|1991]], [[35th Annual Grammy Awards|1993]] and [[36th Annual Grammy Awards|1994]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/garry-shandling-dies-12-little-878200| title=12 Little-Known Facts About Garry Shandling| magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]| date=March 24, 2016| access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref> He hosted the [[Emmy Awards]] in [[52nd Primetime Emmy Awards|2000]] and [[56th Primetime Emmy Awards|2004]], and co-hosted (doing the opening monologue) in [[55th Primetime Emmy Awards|2003]].<ref name=variety /> He appeared occasionally in films, beginning with a cameo as Mr. Vertisey in ''[[The Night We Never Met]]''. He had supporting roles in ''[[Love Affair (1994 film)|Love Affair]]'' and ''[[Mixed Nuts]];'' ''[[Dr. Dolittle (1998 film)|Dr. Dolittle]]'' (1998), as the voice of a live-action [[pigeon]]; the [[David Rabe]] play adaptation ''[[Hurlyburly (film)|Hurlyburly]]'' (1998); and ''[[Trust the Man]]'' (2001). He wrote and starred in [[Mike Nichols]]'s ''[[What Planet Are You From?]]'' (2000) and co-starred with [[Warren Beatty]] and others in ''[[Town & Country (film)|Town & Country]]'' (2001).

In October 1999, Shandling, with David Rensin, published ''Confessions of a Late Night Talk Show Host: The Autobiography of Larry Sanders'', written in the voice of his alter-ego Larry Sanders.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.cnn.com/books/reviews/9812/22/late.night/| title=Review: The whole truth (and nothing but the truth) about Larry Sanders: 'Confessions of a Late Night Talk Show Host The Autobiography of Larry Sanders As Told to Garry Shandling'| first=L.D.| last=Meagher| work=[[CNN]]| date=December 22, 1998| access-date=March 24, 2016}}</ref>

He also appeared in a brief cameo in ''[[Zoolander]]'' (2001). Again voicing an animal, Shandling co-starred as Verne in ''[[Over the Hedge]]'' (2006), which became one of his best-known roles.<ref>{{cite news| title=Close to the Edge to Over the Hedge; STAR TAKES TIME OUT FROM ACTION MOVIES TO MAKE A FILM FOR HIS KIDS Die Hard Star Bruce Goes Green and Cuddly| url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Close+to+the+edge+to+Over+The+Hedge%3B+STAR+TAKES+TIME+OUT+FROM+ACTION...-a0147495379| newspaper=[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]]| first=Brian| last=McIver| date=June 27, 2006| location=Glasgow| access-date=April 27, 2023}}</ref> He appeared in ''[[Iron Man 2]]'' (2010) as Senator Stern, and reprised the role in ''[[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]]'' (2014). He appeared in an uncredited cameo as a health inspector in ''[[The Dictator (2012 film)|The Dictator]]'' (2012).

He starred as himself representing [[Fox Mulder]], alongside [[Téa Leoni]] as [[Dana Scully]] in ''[[The X-Files]]'' [[List of The X-Files episodes#Season 7 (1999–2000)|season 7]] spoof episode "[[Hollywood A.D. (The X-Files)|Hollywood A.D.]]"<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751136| title="The X Files" Hollywood A.D. (2000)| website=[[IMDb]]| access-date=April 7, 2008}}</ref>

In February 2010, Shandling was staying at the same [[Waipio Valley]] hotel that [[Conan O'Brien]] checked into after his [[2010 Tonight Show conflict|departure from ''The Tonight Show'']]. They spent their entire vacations together, Shandling helping to rehabilitate O'Brien.<ref name=gq>{{cite journal| url=https://www.gq.com/story/comedy-issue-garry-shandling| title=Garry Shandling: The Reclusive Master of American Comedy| first1=Amy| last1=Wallace| first2=Danielle| last2=Levitt| date=August 12, 2010| journal=[[GQ]]| access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-conan-obrien-remember-friend-garry-shandling-20160325| title=Watch Conan O'Brien Lovingly Remember Friend Garry Shandling| magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]| date=March 25, 2016| access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/25/conan-o-brien-on-how-garry-shandling-helped-save-his-life| title=Conan O'Brien on How Garry Shandling Helped Save His Life| first=Matt| last=Wilstein| newspaper=The Daily Beast| date=March 25, 2016| access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.etonline.com/news/185286_conan_o_brien_remembers_garry_shandling_helping_him_through_a_particularly_difficult_time| title=Conan O'Brien Remembers Garry Shandling: He Helped Me Through a 'Particularly Difficult Time in My Life'| website=[[Entertainment Tonight]]| access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/03/25/conan-obrien-shares-emotional-garry-shandling-story-seth-meyers-pays-tribute/| title=Conan O'Brien shares emotional Garry Shandling story; Seth Meyers pays tribute| first=Emily| last=Yahr| date=March 25, 2016| access-date=April 11, 2018| newspaper=The Washington Post| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Shandling was a longtime friend of [[Jerry Seinfeld]]. In 2016, two months before his death, he appeared on Seinfeld's show ''[[Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee]]''.<ref>{{cite news| last=Sacks| first=Ethan| date=March 24, 2016| url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/garry-shandling-acclaimed-comic-actor-dead-66-article-1.2576782| title=Garry Shandling, acclaimed comic and star of 'The Larry Sanders Show,' dead at 66| newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]| access-date=March 25, 2016}}</ref>