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Garry Shandling
November 29, 1949 -
Nationality: American
Category: Comedian
Subcategory: American Comedian

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

   

I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

   

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

   

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

   

I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.

   

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

   

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

   

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

   

I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.

   

You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.

   

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

   

My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.

   

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

   

First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

   

I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.

   

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

   

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.

   

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

   

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

   

I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.

   

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