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Here’s the legendary clip from The Larry Sanders Show, Garry Shandling’s classic 1990s sit-com about a late-nite talk show host and all the backstage problems he deals with (or more often fails to deal with and instead delegates them to his Jeeves-like producer Artie, played by Rip Torn). In this scene, Larry (Garry) is ducking out of a confrontation between Artie and head writer Phil (Wallace Langham), whose office jokes at the expense of effeminate staffer Brian (Scott Thompson) have gotten the show sued for Sexual Harassment and creating a Hostile Work Environment:
https://youtu.be/Qu6fPbqUDSQ?t=7m58s
The most famous exchange starts at 8:46. Language NSFW
Most of the people on screen in this episode have gotten in trouble in real life in one way or another: the late Garry Shandling was wiretapped by Anthony Pellicano at the behest of mogul Brad Grey when he sued Grey, his business partner; also, Garry was sued by Linda Doucett, who preceded Scott Thompson as Hank’s on-screen assistant, for palimony and for firing her when she broke up with Garry; Rip Torn drove into the lobby of a bank under the mistaken impression that it was his driveway; Jeffrey Tambor is currently being fired from starring in Transparent on charges of not being transphobic enough; Sarah Silverman’s patriotism is currently being called in question; Wallace Langham pled no contest to punching out a gay paparazzi “who had allegedly made accusations against Langham’s girlfriend’s tattoos” (I don’t know what that means); Langham replaced Jeremy Piven on the show, who is a rare figure in Weinsteingate in denying everything. I haven’t heard any good gossip about Mary Lynn Rajskub or the late Bruno Kirby, but I’m probably not looking hard enough.
In summary, professional-level funny people tend to get themselves into sticky situations now and then not unlike the ones their characters get into on-screen.
But, damn, were they funny together.
Illeana Douglas in one of my favorite films : “To Die For” .
“teh gay” aside, Kids in the Hall was a great show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Ka2nkIi2I
Uh Oh !!
Ironic that Jeffrey Tambor, playing a transexual these days, is accused of sexual misconduct. Go figure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hxibHJOE5EReplies: @Bubba
I think I had something important to say but I forgot . Will this do ?
Jumpin’ Jews :
Bunny hoppers .
They’ve got nothing on these guys. As Steve would put it, Chechens being all Checheny.
OT: Do you guys think it is fair to characterize what is going on with sexual harassment as an Awakening in the broadest sense of the term? I sure do – this thing is just humongous and getting more so daily
Years from now it may be remembered as an anti-Semitic purge / pogrom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hxibHJOE5EReplies: @Bubba
Simply sublime! Frank with Count Basie – this is one of the best songs of the 20th century! Thank you!
God gives no discounts , interest builds from the moment of the charge . He is a Jew .
They were often pretty funny – better than anything SNL every mustered. And that is my only requirement for comedians – that they be funny.
OT, but a cornucopia of iSteve topics here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/west-point-cadet-accused-football-player-rape-article-1.3686784
Most campus "rapes" are "regret rapes" which are caused by the combination of alcohol and the appalling messaging of our society (Hollyweird) telling young women to be sluts, against a normal young woman's desire (in the morning) to believe that having sex is something that she does in a committed relationship with her boyfriend, fiancee, husband.
But there are indeed plenty of blacks who would actually go to a white woman's room and force her to have sex. Amped up for highly aggressive football players who have been coddled and think they can get away with it.
What's on display here is the appalling cucky stupidity of modern America. Neither the rapist nor rapee in this case had any business being at West Point. Neither was going to be an officier that added anything to our national defence. They were going to--at best--take up space and burn tax money. Yet there they were. Because "diversity!" (and football).Replies: @unpc downunder
The curse of our generation was unearned prosperity and the Seven deadly sins :
A proud (vain) look
A lying tongue.
Hands that shed innocent blood
A heart that deviseth wicked acts
Feet that be swift in running to mischief
A false witness that speaketh lies
He that soweth discord among brethren[7]
Oh , and sloth .
A proud (vain) look
A lying tongue.
Hands that shed innocent blood
A heart that deviseth wicked acts
Feet that be swift in running to mischief
A false witness that speaketh lies
He that soweth discord among brethren[7]
Oh , and sloth .Replies: @donut
We have trekked so far to die in shame .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC5PToEqo-c
Bunny hoppers .Replies: @Moses, @Tom-in-VA
I think you mean “Jumping Whites.”
No, it isn’t an awakening as of yet. It will be an awakening when Americans realize en masse that the idea of gender equality is a remarkably brazen con job.
What year was it that homosexuals surpassed Jews as donors to the Democratic party? It was somewhere in the middle of the Obama regime.
OT- but in baseball, looks like the New York Yankees run “this town.” The Yankees and Marlins have “virtually” finished a trade agreement: Giancarlo Stanton for a bag of balls (or something roughly equivalent.)
Last team to have two <50 hr hitters in the same lineup? The 1962 Mantle/Maris Yankees.
There are going to be a whole lotta 500 ft home runs and strike 3's this summer in the Bronx.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/west-point-cadet-accused-football-player-rape-article-1.3686784Replies: @BB753, @AnotherDad, @Jus' Sayin'...
It sounds like regret-rape to me. Look at her manjaw!
30 Helens agree!
Artie’s throwaway at the end is a thing of beauty. Great ensemble work.
Good for Mike Stanton. This will never be a baseball town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC5PToEqo-c
Bunny hoppers .Replies: @Moses, @Tom-in-VA
They’ve got nothing on these guys. As Steve would put it, Chechens being all Checheny.
“Did you see what he was wearing? This is entrapment!” Hahahaaa! (08:10)
I'd never seen the show, but that was damn funny.
“Looks like they settled out of court.”
I’d never seen the show, but that was damn funny.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/west-point-cadet-accused-football-player-rape-article-1.3686784Replies: @BB753, @AnotherDad, @Jus' Sayin'...
When it’s a black guy, the believability quotient of these rape accusations leaps by an order of magnitude.
Most campus “rapes” are “regret rapes” which are caused by the combination of alcohol and the appalling messaging of our society (Hollyweird) telling young women to be sluts, against a normal young woman’s desire (in the morning) to believe that having sex is something that she does in a committed relationship with her boyfriend, fiancee, husband.
But there are indeed plenty of blacks who would actually go to a white woman’s room and force her to have sex. Amped up for highly aggressive football players who have been coddled and think they can get away with it.
What’s on display here is the appalling cucky stupidity of modern America. Neither the rapist nor rapee in this case had any business being at West Point. Neither was going to be an officier that added anything to our national defence. They were going to–at best–take up space and burn tax money. Yet there they were. Because “diversity!” (and football).
Hollywood Reporter’s Jewish Roundtable(featuring Ridley Scott staring into distance and silently wondering wether he has any Jewish ancestors):
When asked about Weinstein Judd Apatow strays into Bill Cosby affair and manages to blame Black community for his actions.
The head-crusher alone was worth the price of admission. It was epic when he finally met his nemesis and they fought it out.
Yes, it’s like an inversion or perversion of the Great Awakening spurred by the inimitable Jonathan Edwards.
I’m going to assume that was after the Big O’s Road to Damascus conversions on gay marriage and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
But wait, everyone knew he was previously lying. Nevermind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_GMMLULXwReplies: @Luke Lea
donut, isteve’s resident troll. Every self-respecting blog needs one (but only one).
Or Truth.
Or Nick Diaz.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Jim Don Bob, @Brutusale
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I had mixed feelings about it, but every once in a while sketches transported me.
For instance, one about a guy who keeps making empty promises to people, saying “Will do.” But he never does. When called out on it, he says it “slipped my mind.” Then he makes a more elaborate empty promises.
I don’t really laugh when I watch it. I’m more hypnotized.
My favorite Scott Thompson character was the father who demanded a constant supply of sausages.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/west-point-cadet-accused-football-player-rape-article-1.3686784Replies: @BB753, @AnotherDad, @Jus' Sayin'...
Affirmative action and sports have destroyed the integrity of the USA’s military academies. That the Negro thug involved in this incident was later found guilty of cheating and given yet another pass for an offense that should result in expulsion lends credence to the young woman’s story and shows absolutely and unequivocally that our military academies have become corrupt beyond the point of redemption. Downstream this corruption will inevitability pollute the military command structure and corrode whatever integrity our military may retain.
I have yet to see any discussion in any of the fake news MSM about the most salient aspects of this whole situation: Jews and Negroes account for a disproportionate number of the most probable offenders; in the case of Jews, a grotesquely disproportionate number. The disproportions seem to rise both with the weight of evidence favoring the accusers and the seriousness of the offenses. Finally, the establishment has for decades protected from exposure a great many Jewish and Negro offenders, e.g., Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Bill Cosby, and too many to enumerate Negro politicians and athletes.
To Die For is one of my top 10 movies
I thought that was Whiskey.
Or Truth.
Or Nick Diaz.
Sad. I like good vitriol.
Now Kato (AKA Yan Shen) feels left out.
A very diverse group.
“Sarah Silverman’s patriotism is currently being called in question” – Huh?
Most campus "rapes" are "regret rapes" which are caused by the combination of alcohol and the appalling messaging of our society (Hollyweird) telling young women to be sluts, against a normal young woman's desire (in the morning) to believe that having sex is something that she does in a committed relationship with her boyfriend, fiancee, husband.
But there are indeed plenty of blacks who would actually go to a white woman's room and force her to have sex. Amped up for highly aggressive football players who have been coddled and think they can get away with it.
What's on display here is the appalling cucky stupidity of modern America. Neither the rapist nor rapee in this case had any business being at West Point. Neither was going to be an officier that added anything to our national defence. They were going to--at best--take up space and burn tax money. Yet there they were. Because "diversity!" (and football).Replies: @unpc downunder
You forgot students loans and credit cards. A young person’s ability to get into trouble depends a lot on how much access to credit they have.
Women have been free to take drugs and drink alcohol since the late 60s, but its only in the last couple of decades that this has become a major issue.
From the same time period as that Larry Sanders bit
a single season tv series about making movies, where the villain’s power move in negotiations was to expose himself
relevant bit at 1:10
Or Truth.
Or Nick Diaz.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Jim Don Bob, @Brutusale
Don’t forget Corvinus.
You can put a lot of institutions in that space.
“It was f—in good ham.”
+1 on To Die For. A very funny clever black comedy.
I haven’t heard any good gossip about Mary Lynn Rajskub or the late Bruno Kirby, but I’m probably not looking hard enough.
According to Nicholas Stix, Bruno Kirby did something to piss off Billy Crystal, but nobody knows what. That’s about it.
Mary Lynn Rajskub was in a supplementary scene to the movie Magnolia, in which she is sexually assaulted by Tom Cruise’s pick-up artist character. Which seems a little topical these days, but is also a fascinating vision of an unusual parallel world in which Hollywood’s leading men lust after decidedly average-looking women like Ms Rajskub.
Nice teeth. Nothing else.
There’s always the Girl in the Room phenomenon.
Why did Schwarzenegger, for instance, go after his maid? Because she inspired uncontrollable lust in him? Or because she was there?
No offense to Mary Lynn, of course. I'm sure she's a fine person and a true patriot. However. Facts are facts and must be dealt with honestly.
Well, that’s true. But you wouldn’t think he’d have to resort to trickery to bang this chick, would you? He’d just point out that he’s Tom Cruise and she is Mary Lynn Rajskub.
No offense to Mary Lynn, of course. I’m sure she’s a fine person and a true patriot. However. Facts are facts and must be dealt with honestly.
She said she was triggered when a boyfriend of hers flew the American flag at his home.
Or Truth.
Or Nick Diaz.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Jim Don Bob, @Brutusale
The last few post by Whiskey have been way shorter than his usual 7 paragraphs and have lacked the HATE HATE HATE signature, so I can only conclude that he has been compromised.
Sad. I like good vitriol.
I disagree. I would assault.. err, try to seduce Mary Lynn Rajskub given the chance in a heartbeat. She’s quite a woman! While I doubt a sexually ambiguous midget like Tom Cruise would interest her in any way.
Maybe UNZ should let us have avatars :
Or Truth.
Or Nick Diaz.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Jim Don Bob, @Brutusale
Donut is the VIDEO troll.
Where I worked the Captains , 1st Mates and Chief engineers relived each other every 60 days , 60 on 60 off . They always kept those people on the same ship as i recall . Licensed personnel could bring their spouses onboard for a trip . On this one ship the second mate brought his wife on board for a trip . Within the week we knew he was a pussy whipped bitch and she was not a very nice person . The deck officers all slept in the midships house the rest of the crew aft . Anyway somebody went up to the forward house washing machines and stole all her panties .
I’ll decide who is White Moshe .
Scott Thompson never forgave the Larry Sanders people for making his character so boring. What possessed them to reduce such a wonderful comic actor to a role that had no funny lines, no presence, no nothing, still escapes me.
Jealousy? The Larry Sanders Show was loaded with talent, and maybe that didn’t leave much screen time for a newcomer arriving halfway through. I know it sounds crazy that established stars might not always be wholly interested in giving the new underling a fair chance to shine, but … oh, wait … that’s the plot of about every third episode of the show, like the time Larry decides he needs a vacation so Artie gets rising talkshow talent Jon Stewart to sit in for Larry. The audience loves Stewart so Larry rushes back early to dismiss the potential usurper.