Why Garry Shandling Matters Or How To Honor Jew Comics

It's nice to see The Red Man do something with himself that didn't involve Stacy Valentine, and old sock, and a tub of Vaseline. Good going buddy! Next time you take a few weeks off from blogging, be sure you do a better job of honoring Jewish comics than throwing in two sentences about a guy who has a book that sits on your shelf, and then throw in a shitty YouTube clip. Now let's do this up right!

Jewish comic Garry Shandling is a ground-breaker, first as a writer, then as a stand-up comic, a host, and then creator of two hilarious shows. He's kind of like a Jewish Gallagher in a sense that he too helped make the cable company Showtime worth buying in the 80's.

Before Jerry Seinfeld and Orny Adams took Jewish comedy into the stratosphere, the groundwork was laid out by Shandling. He wrote an episode of "Sanford and Son" proving that he could "keep it real" with the homies and brothers who watched that wretched show. In other words, Shandling's brand of hilarity transcended color lines and religious backgrounds.

Shandling ofted filled in on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson until that shegetz Jay Leno elbowed him out and eventually took over the show for good in 1992. Being the good mensch that he is, Shandling didn't get angry but simply took his comedic genius to Showtime with "It's Garry Shandling's Show" (which co-starred the underrated Michael Tucci from the famous Tucci acting family) and then he took it to Fox which aired a watered-down, cleaner version of the show. But it proved Shandling's appeal had worldwide potential.

Next stop was HBO and "The Larry Sanders Show." Garry knew a thing or two about hosting his own talk show and so it was a foregone conclusion that this would be a hit, and therefore would make it worth buying HBO. He has been nominated for several Emmys and has won his share of the coveted award as well.

Garry has accomplished all of these things, and has sported the "Jew Fro" about as well as anyone possibly could.

And so we tip our yarmulke to you, Garry Shandling, as we say mazel tov to your success and a hearty thanks for all of the laughs.