Larry gets upset over a review from TV critic Tom Shales, prompting him to fire off a fax in retaliation and to seek sympathy from show guest Sally Field.
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“Where is the Love?” ranks #56 of 90 The Larry Sanders Show episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.8 — Great. The episode packs 55 scored jokes at 1.9 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Hank landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Larry's a talk show host.
Artie Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Larry: So I'll sit in it a couple of times, it'll complain, and then I'll sell it.
Larry Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Artie: Well, Phil, I can't believe you're a comedy writer, but we have to take them both on faith.
Artie Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Artie: Please don't have sex with Hank before the show. It makes his blood sugar drop.
Artie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Rabbi Susan: As a Jew you're almost a Methodist.
All Jokes — 55 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Larry: Now I can get rid of Stephanie.
Larry Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Artie: Larry, she just had a baby.
Artie Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hank: He said this chair is just like having sex.
Hank Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Larry: So I'll sit in it a couple of times, it'll complain, and then I'll sell it.
Larry Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch What is perfectly adorable, good as new, and has 7 tiny little dents in it?
Larry: Is he on the show? He just came in to tell us that joke?
Larry Observational Cringe/Discomfort Larry: What's not to feel?
Larry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Hank: But from today on, it would mean so much to me if each of you referred to me as Hank Lepstein.
Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Artie: This is more along the lines of a preemptive strike.
Artie Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Hank: He's a sweet guy. He's a genius guy. Not so pretty, but awfully sweet.
Hank Character Comedy Observational Hank: You know, the drinking and the gambling and the cheap sex, and I mean-- oh, what a waste of time.
Hank Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Artie: Why don't you just lie down there, I'll get you a cold cloth, you poor bastard.
Artie Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Artie: They run this town. They run it a hell of a lot better than the Asians.
Artie Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Artie: Morality's just gonna get in the way.
Artie Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Artie: And I don't want you to fuck that up.
Artie Character Comedy Escalation Larry's a talk show host.
Artie Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Phil: You're not even Jewish.
Hank: I am Jewish.
Phil: No, you're not.
Hank: I am Jewish!
Phil: You complained to me because it made you look too Jewish.
Phil Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Hank: At least I'm smart enough not to worship a god that sits in the middle of a Chinese restaurant with a sign that says, 'Rub my belly for luck.'
Hank Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Beverly: A rabbi fits more nicely into a show business environment.
Hank Observational Character Comedy Artie: Well, Phil, I can't believe you're a comedy writer, but we have to take them both on faith.
Artie Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hank: This would be a real good place to hide the matzo on Passover.
Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hank: Catholic priests can't do that, which is why I believe so many of them have prostate problems.
Hank Observational Dark/Subversive Hank: Yom Kippur and the 4th of July.
Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Rabbi Susan: As a Jew you're almost a Methodist.
Rabbi Susan: Call me Susan.
Hank: You have soft skin. I mean-- I mean, for a rabbi.
Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Artie: Please don't have sex with Hank before the show. It makes his blood sugar drop.
Artie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Hank: A friend loveth at all times, but, um, a brother is born for adversity.
Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hank: Sally Field wore her hat on The Flying Nun and look at that. That was a big show.
Hank Character Comedy Absurdist That was a show about a flying nun.
Larry Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Larry: I'd like to tour the rest of the place.
Larry Setup/Punchline Observational Hank: I am on God's team, and this is God's cap.
Hank Character Comedy Observational Hank: And besides, I am-- I am looking at the postseason.
Hank Character Comedy Absurdist Artie: When I was 12, I got baptized, and I didn't shut up about it until a year later when I got laid.
Artie Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Artie: I talk to the man upstairs on my own time and not in the middle of 'Larry's Funny Photos.'
Artie Observational Character Comedy Beverly: He even made sure that he left early for midnight mass.
Beverly Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: Somebody has been sitting in my chair.
Phil: Did they also eat your porridge, too? You know, like Goldilocks and the three bears.
Stu: But I am behind the camera, where the viewing public cannot see me.
Stu Observational Character Comedy Hank: We live in a racist society. Even behind the camera, apparently.
Hank Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Hank: You're an uncle Tom.
Hank Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Artie: They just get a little-- [mimics shock] Little butt hummer.
Artie Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Artie: Uncle Miltie never wore a yarmulke on his show and neither did Jack Benny.
Artie Observational Callback Hank: You'll get this yarmulke when you pry it off my cold dead head.
Hank Callback Escalation Callback Artie: Be careful, she's a hot box here.
Artie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hank: Like the-- Like the Hebrews at Masada.
Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hank: Yeah, that sounds like a woman.
Hank Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Hank: Yeah, that sounds like a woman.
Hank Character Comedy Reaction Beat Hank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hank: What the hell are orange Jews?
Hank Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Artie: Maybe he's referring to the orange juice you endorse.
Artie Setup/Punchline Observational Artie: That's what the Olsen twins say.
Artie Dark/Subversive Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: My ass feels like it's on fire!
Larry Physical/Slapstick Callback Callback Artie: I thought it was Phil.
Artie Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — The Larry Sanders Show
