# Garry Shandling dead at age 66 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050 "2016-03-24T20:37:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![smokey78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@smokey78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smokey78)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/21 "2016-03-24T23:59:23Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > As I have said for some time now, 2016 is coming to get everyone born before 1949. > > It’s Garry Shandling’s Show was the first show I remember consistently breaking the fourth wall. One episode that stands out in my mind was when he appeared naked except for the black dot over his groin. Does anyone else remember this hilarious TV ‘costume’? I’m just STUNNED someone mentioned this; it was the first thing I thought with Garry Shandling’s Show. I think I did see a clip of it on Utube recently. Where he had to adjust the black dot when he fell down (or he passed out)? onto the floor. RIP Garry ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/22 "2016-03-25T00:01:44Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > As I have said for some time now, 2016 is coming to get everyone born before 1949. > > It’s Garry Shandling’s Show was the first show I remember consistently breaking the fourth wall. One episode that stands out in my mind was when he appeared naked except for the black dot over his groin. Does anyone else remember this hilarious TV ‘costume’? I remember that just after that scene, he said something like “Thank goodness I remembered to wear my dot!” He’s not someone I’ve thought of often over the years, but when I saw this thread title, I went back to old memories of Garry Shandling’s Show and felt sad. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/23 "2016-03-25T00:03:17Z")
I remember watching _The Garry Shandling Show_ as a kid with my dad. I was too young to get most of it, but I still enjoyed it. _Larry Sanders_ was a great show. I mainly remember like 4 or 5 straight times I turned it on, it was the same episode: the one where Hank’s contract is up and he’s very ineptly attempting to BS his way into a better deal. It was still funny every time. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/24 "2016-03-25T00:18:32Z")
> [@smokey78](#): > > I’m just STUNNED someone mentioned this; it was the first thing I thought with Garry Shandling’s Show. I think I did see a clip of it on Utube recently. Where he had to adjust the black dot when he fell down (or he passed out)? onto the floor. > > RIP Garry The adjustment is what made it so memorable! Now I gotta go see if this episode is on the internet somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/25 "2016-03-25T00:44:33Z")
Gary Shandling will appear as the corrupt senator again in _Captain America: Civil War_. I, too, love that theme song. From the first time I saw him: “I’m great in bed! I hardly ever fall out.” ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/26 "2016-03-25T01:03:50Z")
Oh, he was so funny. RIP Garry. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/27 "2016-03-25T01:37:04Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Gary Shandling will appear as the corrupt senator again in _Captain America: Civil War_. He’s not listed in the [IMDb.com](http://IMDb.com) credits, and given the disposition of the character at the end of _Winter Soldier_, it seems unlikely he’d return to any position of authority. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/28 "2016-03-25T01:45:13Z")
The [theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cWbkWTYwTw) to Garry Shandling’s show. I forgot how great it was. There are episodes available on Youtube, also. Bob ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/29 "2016-03-25T01:55:40Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > As I have said for some time now, 2016 is coming to get everyone born before 1949. Before? He was born _in_ 1949. All us Baby Boomers are doomed. Ditto to what everybody’s saying here, including wishing he had done more shows. Maybe, a la Tom Lehrer, he thought that Hollywood had gone beyond satire. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/30 "2016-03-25T03:31:39Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Funny scene in Garry Shandling’s Show from my memory: > > After being shocked by the price of a house, Garry asks why it’s so expensive. The agent responds that the view is amazing – Garry’s retort is “for that kind of money, there better be breasts pressed against the window!” XD > [@Loach](#): > > I hope someone is taking care of David Duchovny right now. His heart must be broken. what? de-testicle? Shandling was great in that hydraulic wheelchair thing in “Tom Goes to the Mayor” ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/31 "2016-03-25T03:47:17Z")
Count me in as another person who watched _It’s Garry Shandling’s Show_ with my parents when I was way too young (it came to Fox when I was 9). I have no idea how appropriate or inappropriate it was for someone my age. I do remember it being hilarious. I haven’t watched it since it went off the air, and never watched _Larry Sanders_ but I still think of the _Garry Shandling’s Show_ theme song all the time! Too bad, he seemed like a great figure in the comedy world. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/32 "2016-03-25T03:50:05Z")
I remember reruns of It’s Garry Shandling’s Show ran at midnight in the early to mid 90s-- perhaps on Lifetime or FOX. Watching it was my bedtime ritual the whole summer. RIP Garry. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/33 "2016-03-25T03:53:22Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > He’s not listed in the [IMDb.com](http://IMDb.com) credits, and given the disposition of the character at the end of _Winter Soldier_, it seems unlikely he’d return to any position of authority. > > Stranger I dunno, Bucky seemed to bounce back pretty good after the end of _Captain America…_ ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/34 "2016-03-25T14:24:25Z")
> [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](#): > > I’ve worked out my funny bone there before. > > RIP Garry. Eh, Siri. She don’t know gem from gym from Jim. A favorite meta moment from IGSS was when his girlfriend decided to speed ahead by moving his clock ahead several hours, causing him to miss a cross stitch class with special guest star Magic Johnson (who never guest starred because of her messing with time). ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/35 "2016-03-25T14:33:48Z")
He waited a few hours too long to get to the ER. Reminds me of David Letterman, he got lucky and had gone in for a routine cardiology test. They rushed him into surgery for a quintuple bypass a few hours later. He was a prime candidate for a massive heart attack at any time. > **[Garry Shandling was about to leave for ER on doctor’s orders when he...](https://www.nydailynews.com/2016/03/25/garry-shandling-was-about-to-leave-for-er-on-doctors-orders-when-he-collapsed-from-heart-attack/)** > > Garry Shandling was reportedly minutes from heading to the ER on doctor’s orders when he went into cardiac arrest. The “Larry Sanders Show” creator-star, who died Thursday morning… > [@](#): > > The “Larry Sanders Show” creator-star, who died Thursday morning at 66 from an apparent heart attack, suffered aches and shortness of breath late Wednesday afternoon, sources told TMZ. > > Shandling apparently confided his concerns in a doctor pal, who made a house call to examine the comedian. Per the doc’s advice, he agreed to visit an emergency room the next day if his symptoms continued. > > He did not mention any chest pains, according to the report. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/36 "2016-03-25T14:41:44Z")
This sucks. I loved his standup work and It’s Garry Shandling’s Show. I liked Larry Sanders when I watched it but I never got the chance to really follow it. ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/37 "2016-03-25T14:58:49Z")
That’s a real shame. I liked him in _What Planet Are You From?_ Rest in peace, Garry. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/38 "2016-03-25T15:38:10Z")
I watched It’s Garry Shandling’s Show when it was on FOX and always enjoyed the fourth-wall-breaking aspects. I always meant to check out Larry Sanders but never did. I need to fix that. RIP Garry. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/39 "2016-03-25T15:55:45Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I watched It’s Garry Shandling’s Show when it was on FOX and always enjoyed the fourth-wall-breaking aspects. I always meant to check out Larry Sanders but never did. I need to fix that. > > RIP Garry. You really should, it was great. As Seinfeld said when he interviewed Shandling, it kind of originated that “air about it”. Just the dialogue and character interaction. Kind of like what The Office did but without the mockumentary aspect. Boy that Comedians in Cars interview is getting linked to like crazy. Death was definitely on both their minds during it so I guess they both knew it was coming. Looked like Shandling had made peace with it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050/40 "2016-03-25T15:59:32Z")
Another favorite moment from IGSS: Garry and Rob Reiner reenacting the train track scene from _Stand By Me_ (Reiner’s hit movie which was then current) but on an indoor track. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garry-shandling-dead-at-age-66/750050.md?page=3)