"Larry, don't micromanage, let me handle the details". Larry's response verges on anger: "You know what your problem is, Stevie? You're talking to me like you think I believe you" before he goes on stage to do a show at the end of which he announces his retirement and intention to spend the rest of his life in Montana. In the episode "People's Choice" Stevie is livid after finding out Larry agreed to host the People's Choice Awards as a favor to Artie, who is producing this year. Stevie is beside himself that Larry made a decision without consulting him. Instead of hosting by himself, which is what he thought he was agreeing to, Larry is angrily informed by Stevie that he actually agreed to co-host with Rita Moreno and Dean Cain. To further drive his point home Stevie makes Larry repeat the following out loud: "Co-hosting detracts from my essential specialness in the marketplace". When Larry gets addicted to painkillers in the episode "End of the Season", thus missing a week of shows and forcing the staff to call Pat Sajak into guest-hosting action, he's cared for at his home by old friend Roseanne Barr, and Stevie pays him a visit with a fruit basket in tow. However, while talking to Larry alone, Stevie's much more interested in Roseanne's agent situation at the rival William Morris Agency - at one point even asking Larry whether he knows if she's happy with the representation over there. As jittery and distracted Larry reaches for the wrapped-up fruit basket on the table, Stevie informs him that it's actually for Roseanne while also telling him that his basket won't be ready until tomorrow because "you like that sugar-free shit, right". In the episode "Conflict of Interest", Stevie starts dating the Larry Sanders Show talent booker Paula, which soon raises suspicion among the staff that he's only doing it in order to use their relationship as a way to get his lesser-known clients such as Ed Begley, Jr., Sally Struthers, Jake Johansen, and Andy Kindler booked on the show. He is first seen in the episode "Larry's Agent", and was created by Garry Shandling, Paul Simms, Maya Forbes, and Drake Sather. Sid Bessel Sid Bessel, played by Phil Leeds (seasons 3–4) is Hank's agent, an elderly Jewish American out of step with modern showbusiness. Hank seems to be aware of Sid's inadequacies and is