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Garry Emmanuel Shandling was an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer.
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entertainment · American comedian (1949–2016) · actor · screenwriter · film producer · comedian · television producer · film actor · television actor · television director · film director · voice actor · also Garry Shandling, Shandling
Born 29 November 1949 · Died 24 March 2016 · Q1374481
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“A lot of questions I had about life and about art and psychology he had answers to. And he was guiding people in that class to eliminate everything but their essence and just be, so you”
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People: Kevin Nealon Says Burglar Stole Necklace with Late Garry Shandling's Ashes in It During Break-In
Page Six: After HBO documentary, Garry Shandling’s Twitter account is revived by friends
Yahoo: Garry Shandling’s Twitter Account Revived as Tribute Page
Yahoo: Garry Shandling Died of Blood Clot and Had Opiates in His System, Coroner Report Reveals
Died 2016-03-24.
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Shandling died from pulmonary thrombosis, a blood clot that traveled from his leg to his lungs
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Two months before his death, he appeared on Seinfeld's show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
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Entertainment Weekly ranked it the 28th in the "100 best shows from 1983 to 2008" list, and it was included on Time magazine's 100 Greatest Shows of All Time
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Along with a Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders Show, Shandling's picks of the best 23 episodes
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Was presented with the Austin Film Festival's Outstanding Television Writer Award
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TV Guide named The Larry Sanders Show as 38th Greatest Show of All Time
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Museum of Broadcasting: It's Garry Shandling's Show / The Larry Sanders Show
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And 2004, and co-hosted (doing the opening monologue) in 2003
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And was the topic of season five's episode "The Book"
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for The Larry Sanders Show (1998).
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Along with Peter Tolan, for writing the series finale
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Was that he didn't want to enlarge his family
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NBC offered Shandling $5 million to take over Late Night when David Letterman announced his highly publicized move to CBS, but Shandling declined
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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
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A third special, Garry Shandling: Stand-Up, was part of the HBO Comedy Hour
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Created It's Garry Shandling's Show, which aired on Showtime
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Shandling and Alan Zweibel went on to create It's Garry Shandling's Show
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Shandling performed his first stand-up special, Garry Shandling: Alone in Vegas for Showtime, followed by a second televised special in 1986, The Garry Shandling Show: 25th Anniversary Special, also for Showtime
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Shandling performed his first stand-up routine at The Comedy Store
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Shandling was involved in a car crash in Encino that left him in critical condition for two days and hospitalized for two weeks with a crushed spleen
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In 1976, Shandling was involved in a car crash in Encino that left him in critical condition for two days and hospitalized for two weeks with a crushed spleen.
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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
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The son of pet store proprietor Muriel Estelle (née Singer) and print shop owner Irving Shandling
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Born 1949-11-29.
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