Comment: “You know who runs this town, don’t you?”
“The Jews?”
“The gay Jews!”
Gary Shandling’s interview with Ricky Gervais is something special. I think that after that they cancelled Ricky’s interview show.
* Shandling was a definite contender to succeed Johnny Carson at the Tonight show, having been a popular guest host during the Carson years, so he was hardly an exotic talent.
I don’t think Shandling had the durability of a Leno to do 5 shows per week for decades. So it was probably wise of him to go the weekly sitcom rather than daily talkshow route. As it was, Shandling seemed pretty worn out by his six years doing “Larry Sanders.”
Part of the high regard he was held in by the other pros was related to how it didn’t come easy for him.
* I come from a family full of good-looking people. One kid in our family started modeling at 5 years old. We used to marvel at the fact that we didn’t have any “clunkers.”
Then a couple of my cousins moved out of state, and married some really shitty looking men. They could marry anyone they wanted. They picked inbred-looking losers. Result was some depressingly ugly babies, who are growing into offensive looking children. We were hoping my cousin’s genes would overwhelm the ugly spouse’s genes, but no such luck! One of my cousins looked just like Liv Tyler, I still can’t believe her husbands genes overruled hers. But they did.
They keep posting pictures of their ugly dullard-looking children on Facebook, and it bums me out every time. I guess I’m just spoiled, but I despise looking at people’s ugly kids, and being expected to act as if they don’t repel me. I’m not exaggerating. These kids are fucking ugly. If you woke up in the middle of the night, and saw one of them standing at the foot of your bed, you’d hit the fucking ceiling.
Every time my cousins post yet another fucking Facebook photo of their genetic malapropisms, I want to say, “Nobody forced you to marry that ugly man, and now you have ugly kids, and you want me to pretend they’re NOT so you’re not constantly reminded of your stupid ass mistake!”
Anyway, there’s plenty of ugly kids around, and if you “can’t see it,” you’re neurotic.
