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Garry Shandling, the comic whose trademarked dry delivery made mundane subjects (including his hair) funny and launched a pair of beloved television comedies, has died at age 66.
"At 10:40 this morning we received a call for a medical emergency. An adult male patient was transported to St. John's hospital. It was a 911 call," a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Los Angeles Police officer Tony Im said Shandling died Thursday, March 24, in Los Angeles of an undisclosed cause. Im did not have any details on when the call summoning medical help was placed or what the nature of the emergency was. He said police will conduct a death investigation. Coroner's spokesman Ed Winter also said his office did not yet have any details about Shandling's death.
Shandling, who was born in Chicago in 1949 and raised in Tucson, moved from a short stint in the advertising business to comedy, writing for TV sitcoms such as Sanford and Son and Welcome Back Kotter and performing as standup comic. In the 1980s he began to experiment with TV comedy in front of the camera with his first series, It's Garry Shandling's Show, a Showtime sitcom that called attention to its artificial nature with the actors routinely breaking the fourth wall. In 1992, he created his comic masterpiece The Larry Sanders Show, which starred him as an egomaniacal late-night TV host with an anxiety-ridden show-biz life behind the scenes.
"At 10:40 this morning we received a call for a medical emergency. An adult male patient was transported to St. John's hospital. It was a 911 call," a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Los Angeles Police officer Tony Im said Shandling died Thursday, March 24, in Los Angeles of an undisclosed cause. Im did not have any details on when the call summoning medical help was placed or what the nature of the emergency was. He said police will conduct a death investigation. Coroner's spokesman Ed Winter also said his office did not yet have any details about Shandling's death.
Shandling, who was born in Chicago in 1949 and raised in Tucson, moved from a short stint in the advertising business to comedy, writing for TV sitcoms such as Sanford and Son and Welcome Back Kotter and performing as standup comic. In the 1980s he began to experiment with TV comedy in front of the camera with his first series, It's Garry Shandling's Show, a Showtime sitcom that called attention to its artificial nature with the actors routinely breaking the fourth wall. In 1992, he created his comic masterpiece The Larry Sanders Show, which starred him as an egomaniacal late-night TV host with an anxiety-ridden show-biz life behind the scenes.