“My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.'...I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go abo…”— Garry Shandling, npr.orgTagged: Los Angeles
“My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things—I mean this seriously—a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves a…”— Garry Shandling, npr.orgTagged: Tonight Show
“To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.”— Garry Shandling, npr.orgTagged: Stand-Up Comedy, comedy, Comedians