This is FRESH AIR. Next Monday and Tuesday, HBO presents a two-part biography of comedian Garry Shandling that covers his life and career but sometimes is much more serious than you might expect. It's ...

Judd Apatow was a teenager when he first "met" comic Garry Shandling in a phone interview for his high school radio show. Years later, their paths intersected again when Shandling, who was hosting the ...

“It’s Garry Shandling’s Book,” edited by Judd Apatow, brims with photos, diary excerpts, reminiscences, newspaper clippings, script pages and more. By Peter Keepnews Judd Apatow’s four-and-a-half-hour ...

Garry Shandling wasn’t easy to classify in life. He was a widely admired stand-up comic and a creator of two influential TV series: “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” a self-aware deconstruction of the ...

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LOS ANGELES Garry Shandling, who as an actor and comedian masterminded a brand of self-inflicted phony docudrama with The Larry Sanders Show, died of an apparent heart attack. Shandling s spokesman ...

On Aug. 15, 1992, HBO premiered The Larry Sanders Show, a series that would change the face of television comedy forever. The cable network had been looking to launch a project with Garry Shandling ...