Leo is Larry's longtime agent, played by John Pleshette. He gets dumped by Larry in the middle of contract negotiations as Larry decides to pursue a big money contract with the help of high powered agent Stevie Grant.
Leo is introduced as a good-natured, personable individual whom Larry socializes with outside of work. Although generally happy with Leo's representation, Larry wants to go after "the Letterman money" in the latest contract negotiations as he feels he deserves it after doing the show for six years. However, he can hardly hide his disappointment with the latest offer Leo comes back with after lunch with the network's head of business affairs. Leo explains that Letterman had to leave a network in order to get the kind of money Larry wants, while Larry insists that "we can do better". Asked by Leo how much better, perplexed Larry says "I want you to tell me" before Leo whispers another figure into his ear to which Larry immediately starts shaking his head in disappointment followed by an instruction to Leo to pass on the network's latest official offer. As he departs, Leo good-naturedly asks him "how much of a fight do you want to put up here", to which already somewhat irritated Larry responds "I don't want a fight, Leo, I want you to fight". Couple of days later, Larry goes out to lunch with Stevie Grant and decides to sign with him, thus dumping Leo.
Leo is predictably devastated when broken the news at Larry's home during a dinner also attended by Artie and Francine, while Larry maintains this is strictly a business decision and doesn't want Leo to take it personally. Leo naturally does and their longtime friendship gets ruined.
He is first seen in the episode "Larry's Agent", and was created by Garry Shandling, Paul Simms, Maya Forbes, and Drake Sather.
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