https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2scOPP5lXgU
Garry Shandling suddenly passed away yesterday and the late night television hosts remember him because he changed that format with his fake TV show The Larry Sanders Show. Conan O’Brien has been doing it the longest now and he remembered his friend on his TBS show last night. Instead of doing a monologue, he shared a story about how Shandling was there for him during a time of need. When Conan’s Tonight Show was cancelled, his wife convinced him to go to Hawaii to get away from it all. As soon as they got there, he got a call and it was from Shandling. The comedian told him there was no way to avoid to him and he spent the rest of the trip with his friend forever. It is a beautiful story that tells you more about than man than just his rich television history.
One that influenced Seth Meyers so much, he had to talk about it at the start of Late Night yesterday. The NBC late night show host said that Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, made him want to do a late night show, but Larry Sanders made him not want to do one. Of course he was joking, but you can see how influential he was.
These are just two of the touching tributes that were paid to the legendary man. There are many more on Twitter and you can see how much his presence touched the lives of Judd Apatow, Peter Tolan, Jimmy Kimmel, Bob Newhart and many many more.
In the upcoming weeks, HBO will once again air The Larry Sanders Show and when they do I highly recommend watching it. See why so many greats respect the man for more than just his comedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZV_fuNT3qk
Yesterday, on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Keri Russell, John Stamos, Henry Cavill and John Goodman all told their younger selves not to do something that would forever change their lives.
Felicity was up first and she told herself not to chop off her hair because the fans, like me, would turn against her. She hasn’t forgiven them for all the hate mail, just like I haven’t forgiven her for doing it. Have you?
Uncle Jesse surprises us with something he did when he was 18. Superman reveals something so shocking that he still can’t handle it today. Then there was Dan Conner and he can’t duck his past.
Now, can we talk about skinny John Goodman? I am still not used to it. He kind of looks like George Clooney, but hotter.
Alison Brie was on Late Night yesterday and Seth Meyers asked her about doing Community and Mad Men at the same time. Somehow she turned the conversation in to the type of undergarments they wore for the advertising drama.
Then she explained that it was not easy to go to the bathroom in them because she was not used to wearing all of that extra material that women used to wear back then.
One day, when she first started on the show, she had to use the little ladies room, but they needed her on the set. She didn’t want to cause trouble, and thought she could hold it in. She couldn’t, so she asked them if she could stop and use the rest room. She moved everything around, but not enough. As she started to go, she realized that it wasn’t going where it was supposed to go. Instead it went all over her underwear and girdle. Since she was needed on the set five minutes ago, she had to shoot the scene in those wet clothes.
During a break from filming, the wardrobe lady asked her if she was uncomfortable in that attire. Brie told her what happened and the lady told her happen more times than you would think.
You will never watch Mad Men the same because you will be wondering if this is when it happened to Christine Hendricks or January Jones.
Now that it looks like The Good Wife is ending this season and Cabaret is currently not on Broadway, Alan Cumming needs to find a new job. So he wrote a musical about the making of the Hover Dam and he is going to star in it.
Yesterday, when he was on Late Night with Seth Meyers, he debuted the show’s big number Dammed If I Do and Dammed If I Don’t. If that doesn’t win all of the Tonys next year than their voting committee is more screwed up than the Oscars’.
Seriously, isn’t that an award winning performance!
If you have seen one Boston movie, you have seen them all. At least according to most NYers and Seth Meyers. Yesterday on Late Night, the NBC host debuted the trailer for his new movie Boston Accent and it is wicked good. So much so, I think the Bro is a real pisser in it.
I might be pronouncing those words incorrectly, but then again I didn’t go to Hawvawd. I went to school in New Yawk.
