Artie is chosen to produce the People's Choice Awards, prompting both Larry and Hank to try for a role in the show.
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“People's Choice” ranks #20 of 90 The Larry Sanders Show episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.5 — Elite. The episode packs 52 scored jokes at 1.9 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.9 on impact, with Larry landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Artie: I gave her her first orgasm.
Artie Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Hank: Mmm, tastes a little like coconut.
Hank Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Artie: Rule number one... never quit. Always make them fire you. That way, you get your money.
Artie Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Larry: You folks came on a very rare night where you get to see me fuck up 3 jokes in a row. Don't take it for granted.
Larry Meta/Self-Referential Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Elvis Costello: Well, at least he was funny.
All Jokes — 52 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Larry: I pay a cabana boy to wheel me down to the beach every day on a stretcher like a coma patient.
Is that included in the package?
Larry: It just seems like that's the kind of thing they'd ask me to do, that's all.
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch There is a finite amount of videotape in the world.
Unknown Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Some shave creams are coconut-scented, so it's not funny.
Unknown Observational Meta/Self-Referential Should I go talk to him?
I wouldn't talk to him at all.
Then you go talk to him.
Artie: How could she not be available?
Artie Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Artie: I gave her her first orgasm.
Artie Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Larry: Oh, well, then she's perfect.
Larry Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Larry: Maybe he'll do pump it up. That's my favorite song.
Unknown: I think he'd rather do something off the new album.
Larry: So I thought I'd heard that song somewhere before. I had to bring it up.
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Keep it down because he could be lurking out there.
He does that?
Hank: Al 'harelip' hartman?
Hank Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Hank: And he drinks.
Artie: So do I. That's why I like him.
How many things can he have up his ass at once?
Larry Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry: You folks came on a very rare night where you get to see me fuck up 3 jokes in a row. Don't take it for granted.
Larry Meta/Self-Referential Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Larry: What a shit crowd. What a shit, shit crowd.
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Larry: What are they doing, bringing these busloads in from the english-as-a-second-language program?
Larry Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Larry: I'm only smiling because the audience is looking at me, and I'm a professional.
Larry Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: Thank God. I thought it was something that might have to do with the show we're taping now.
Larry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Larry: Andalé, felipe. Vamanos.
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Artie: You'll only have to strip at the end of the show.
Artie Absurdist Misdirection Larry: News travels fast, doesn't it?
Larry Observational Character Comedy Stevie: You're cohosting with fucking superman.
Stevie Escalation Character Comedy Stevie: Cohosting detracts from your essential specialness in the marketplace.
Stevie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Stevie: Who are you, kathie Lee all of a sudden?
Darlene: At the daily planet newspaper in metropolis.
Darlene Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist Hank: It's another pleat in your cape.
Hank Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hank: You don't wanna be introduced as... superman. Do you?
Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Larry: That makes no sense.
Artie: Of course it does. Sweetheart, it's the network.
Larry: One person is a host. 2 or more are cohosts.
Larry Observational Deadpan/Understatement Rita to bring in the urbanites and the hairdressers
Artie Character Comedy Absurdist Artie: I mean actual hairdressers.
Artie Escalation Deadpan/Understatement Larry: Yeah, they are a bunch of dickheads, aren't they?
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Well, that doesn't seem that funny, either.
Melanie Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement Larry: Chicken is funny in the context of a smell that goes on your face.
Larry Meta/Self-Referential Absurdist Artie: stevie called me up, and he was crying to me, 'why haven't you given Larry this job? Why don't you ask him to host?' Wee wee wee wee wee.
Artie Character Comedy Escalation Larry: You should call the conan o'brien people, see if they need a producer for the farewell special.
Larry Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Larry: No wonder you been married so many times.
Larry Character Comedy Escalation Hank: Save your Ivy-league double-talk for your chums down at the parliamentary debating society.
Hank Character Comedy Escalation Artie: Why is everybody acting like a bunch of 4-year-olds at a fucking barney show?
Artie Character Comedy Escalation Artie: Is that about a specific person or a pet?
Artie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hank Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Hank: Coconut. 2 'k' sounds followed by a nut.
Hank Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Artie Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Elvis Costello: Don't gimme any more of that big fan shite.
Elvis Costello: Well, at least he was funny.
Larry: This reminds me of the time angela lansbury was on.
Larry Callback Observational ★ Rewatch Callback Artie: Rule number one... never quit. Always make them fire you. That way, you get your money.
Artie Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Larry: I just pulled something. I just... right here.
Larry Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Rita Moreno: I don't think he dances.
Hank: Mmm, tastes a little like coconut.
Hank Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — The Larry Sanders Show
