" The smitten Shandling bought all of Allen's comedy albums and listened to them over and over again. When one of Allen's early films, "Take the Money and Run," opened in 1969, young Garry was first in line at the theater. "I've probably seen all his early movies five or six times," Shandling, now 50, confides. "There's a wit to the way that he writes and an unexpected self-deprecation. I completely related to the kind of Jewish nebbish character he portrayed, because that is how I perceived myself... more