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 The Larry Sanders Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Larry Sanders Show was a satirical television series that originally aired from 1992 to 1998 on the HBO cable television network in the USA.
The series, which was partly inspired by Shandling's stint as a guest host on The Tonight Show, is ranked by many critics and fans alongside Seinfeld as one of the best TV comedies of all time.
The Larry Sanders Show was particularly notable because the off-stage segments of the show were shot in single-camera mode, using a film camera, and had no 'laugh track' (most situation comedies are either taped before a live audience or dubbed with canned laughter), which gave it a behind-the-scenes documentary feel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Larry_Sanders_Show   (674 words)

  
 BBC - Comedy Guide - The Larry Sanders Show
His Larry Sanders was a complex character: egocentric yet lacking in confidence; single-minded but often swayed by advice from the strangest corners; fearful of being fired by the network yet constantly complaining that he was treated badly and that the punishing schedule left him little time to himself.
Larry, Artie and Hank were the triumvirate at the centre of the show but the other characters were uniformly well drawn and portrayed.
Sanders' scriptwriters, especially Phil, were paranoid and felt that their best work was being wasted, and the support staff were much put upon and rarely appreciated, especially Hank's assistant, Darlene and later Brian.
www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/l/larrysandersshow_7774080.shtml   (844 words)

  
 IMDb user comments for "The Larry Sanders Show" (1992)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
On camera, the Larry Sanders Show is slick, professional, and vacant, as celebrities appear pretending to be best of friends with Larry and delighted to be on the show when all they're really doing is plugging their latest product and when everyone in the paranoid entertainment industry actively hates everybody else.
TLSS was THE show about the shallowness of TV and film business personalities, even down to the real life LSSish saga of Gary Shandling falling out and suing his one time friend and manager, Brad Grey for $100m.
TLSS is shot on video for the talk show portions, the part that is "broadcast", while the behind-the-scenes reality parts are shot on film, giving you a line of demarcation for what's "real" and what's "the show".
www.imdb.com /title/tt0103466/usercomments   (2625 words)

  
 THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW: THE ENTIRE FIRST SEASON - DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
But as Garry Shandling, the brains behind the series as well as Larry Sanders' alter ego, tells television critic Tom Shales in an interview exclusive to the first season DVD release of "The Larry Sanders Show", if the show were all cynicism, it wouldn't have lasted for six years.
Her egotistical demands are in keeping with the rest of Larry's satellites, but because she's a woman and indirectly involved in Larry's affairs, Jeannie's hostility contributes little beyond sour grapes.
Larry is asked to do on-air commercials for The Garden Weasel by the new head of programming, and he infuriates her with his sarcastic delivery of the ad copy.
www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/larrysandersshow.htm   (996 words)

  
 The Larry Sanders Show
Being a fictional show in a real world, "The Larry Sanders Show," which was created by and stars comic Garry Shandling, has the luxury of taking real behind-the-scenes events from late night talk shows and applying it to their show.
For Larry Sanders it was his ninth season when his ratings started to drop, and it was at this time that the network executives assigned a creative consultant to improve the show.
Larry's show was no longer his own and due to his slipping ratings, he was forced to go along with the changes or else risk not having his contract renewed.
www.slimpictures.com /larrysanders.htm   (1508 words)

  
 It's Garry Shandling Show
Though Larry is not the biggest fish in the chat pond, it is difficult to realize this from his interactions.
On-screen, Larry is smooth and controlled, but behind the scenes, he is manipulative and disturbed, descending frequently into paranoia and tempter tantrums.
Larry tolerates Hank because he is, at once, confidant and pitch-man, as responsible for Larry's success as are his own skills.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/I/htmlI/itsgarrysh/itsgarrysh.htm   (1305 words)

  
 The Larry Sanders Show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Larry is doing the show, talking about rap artists and their stage names, and as a throwaway he says "Hank, if you were a rapper, what would your name be?" and Hank says, totally deadpan: "Hank the Rapper." That just blew me off the couch.
LSS never jumped, although it came close when Darlene left because she was boffing Larry on the show and Gary in real life.
Larry Sanders is now on in syndication in LA. Not that the show was about the swearing, but it's somehow lacking something without it.
www.jumptheshark.com /l/larrysanders.htm   (5802 words)

  
 DVDlaunch.com: The Larry Sanders Show - The Entire First Season review
When I think of satirical shows that poke fun at something, usually the media, I think "The Larry Sanders Show." Truly one of cable television's greatest triumphs, like a good deal of cable shows, there is stuff here that you couldn't get away with on network television.
Besides that, I still think that "The Larry Sanders Show" is one of the best shows to air in the 1990s, and one of the funniest of all time.
The show is pretty dialogue driven, but there are segments which require effects and music (mainly on the talk show portions themselves).
www.dvdlaunch.com /larrysandersseason1.html   (963 words)

  
 Larry Sanders Show, The - Season One Press Release
Larry battles his reluctance when real live spiders are scheduled for the show, and he tries to find a sketch to do with guest Carol Burnett.
Larry feels out of touch when he's the last to know that his head writer is having a torrid office affair.
Larry makes the tabloids when a woman claims he knocked her into a magazine rack and neglected to apologize.
www.tvshowsondvd.com /newsitem.cfm?NewsID=98   (407 words)

  
 "The Larry Sanders Show" (1992)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Yes, late-night talk shows really are that calculated.
It was interesting to learn these things in a documentary about talk shows recently, but more fun to see this reality skewered on the Larry Sanders show.
The show usually stops short for about a minute or so while the 'musical guest' on the show-within-a-show performs a song, and sometimes we have to sit through the lame monologues as well.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0103466   (391 words)

  
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THE EMMYS The Larry Sanders Show was nominated for Best Comedy each year of it’s run, though it somehow never won, being beaten regularly by Frasier and once by Seinfeld.
Janeane has gone on record saying Larry Sanders was the work she is most proud.
The Larry Sanders Show is still unseen by many Janeane fans, which is a shame considering it was a showcase for some of best performances.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Film/4591/Sanders.html   (961 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Larry Sanders Show [1993]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The complex interdependence of Larry, Artie and that fragile monster Hank is especially compelling: "a fugue in insecurity", as one TV critic put it.
Whilst, Garry Shandling and Rip Torn are excellent in their roles as Larry (the host of a spoof talk show) and Artie (his producer), for me Jeffrey Tambor (who plays Shandling's side kick Hank Kingsley), steels most of the scenes he is in.
This show - about a show - meticulously unclothes the chat show industry and it is indeed a shame that it did not catch on in the U.K. It is cult viewing and so well made but still with an air of sponteneaity(?).
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TLAM   (912 words)

  
 Any chance they will release the rest of "The Larry Sanders Show" on DVD? - The CHUD.COM Message Boards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Gary Shandling created quite a stir on Leno last night when it was mentioned that season 2 of The Larry Sanders Show would be released in the fall.
Columbia TriStar is working on a "Larry Sanders Collection" which will be produced by Gary Shandling and feature his favorite episodes from the series.
"The Larry Sanders Collection" should be a 3 or 4 disc set released in early 2005.
www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=72547   (387 words)

  
 Digital Spy Forums - Larry Sanders Show
The show's announcer and Carson's sidekick was Ed McMahon, who from the very first show would introduce Carson with a drawn-out "Heeeeeeeeerrrreeee's Johnny!" (something McMahon was inspired to do by the over-emphasized way he had introduced reporter Robert Pierrepoint when as host McMahon had introduced him on the NBC Radio show Monitor).
This is not any kind of mistake in the Larry Sanders Show, as it is quite reasonable to assume that any TV show will promote what they expect to include in it, at the time of recording.
For example, the current incarnation of the Tonight Show is interesting because Leno does all the book and film plugging that Larry Sanders satirises, but somehow comes across as more interested in the state of the US and its fat, moronic population (his oft-used words, not mine) than in Sarah Jessica Parker's latest film.
forum.digitalspy.co.uk /board/showthread.php?t=312513   (1655 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Larry Sanders: First Season -- Garry Shandling - DVD
The groundbreaking comedy, depicting the behind-the-scenes machinations at a late-night TV talk show in hilariously petty detail, allowed former frequent Tonight Show guest host Garry Shandling to engage in an extended what-if scenario, and the presence of stars appearing as themselves gave the proceedings an air of self-reflexive naughtiness.
Shandling's Larry Sanders has the quick wit necessary to compete for late-night audiences, but the show is really about his anxiety and self-doubt.
The show's unheralded ensemble proved sensational from the start: Torn's Artie, the crafty executive producer; Jeffrey Tambor's Hank "Hey Now" Kingsley, Larry's decidedly third-rate second banana; Wallace Langham and Jeremy Piven, the show's long-suffering staff writers; Penny Johnson as Beverly Barnes, Larry's even-longer-suffering personal assistant; and Janeane Garofalo as Paula, the guest-booker.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?wrk=3618597   (824 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Larry Sanders Show - The Entire First Season: DVD: Larry Sanders Show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Larry is the worst of all, he hates dealing with other peoples emotional needs and has his producer, ARtie deal with them.
Garry Shandling as Larry Sanders is always hilarious, and this was probably his greatest work as the late night talk show host of The Larry Sanders Show.
Garry Shandling as Larry Sanders, Penny Johnson as Beverly Barnes, Wallace Langham as Phil, Janeane Garofalo as Paula (1992-1997), Megan Gallagher as Jeannie Sanders (1992), Kathryn Harrold as Francine Sanders (1993), Jeremy Piven as Jerry Capen (1992-1993), Linda Doucett as Darlene Chapinni (1992-1994), Scott Thompson as Brian (1995-1998)...
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767847563?v=glance   (2951 words)

  
 TechnoFILE Reviews "The Larry Sanders Show" on DVD
This show within a show is a terrific send up of show business and those in it.
At the heart of the series is the relationship between Larry, Hank and Arthur, a trio whose friendship transcends their daily duties.
EPISODE 8 "OUT OF THE LOOP" has Larry feeling out of touch with the show at large when he discovers he's the last to know that his head writer is having an office affair.
www.technofile.com /dvds/larry_sanders.html   (774 words)

  
 Media Nugget : The Larry Sanders Show : Garry Shandling
I had vague memories of enjoying this show when it originally aired on HBO, but the interminably long off-seasons and relatively short shows (about 22 minutes) began to wear on me after a while.
This show was nothing short of amazing from start to finish.
Garry Shandling is Larry Sanders, a successful, but neurotic late night talk-show host.
www.medianugget.com /2003/06/the_larry_sande.html   (208 words)

  
 The Larry Sanders Show (an Episode Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Larry accepts a script from Chris Elliott for a new sitcom to be produced under Larry's deal with the network, then gives it to Phil for some "fine tuning." Hank honors his oldest fan.
Larry begins an affair with a much younger show intern which causes resentment among the staff and places him in the awkward position of meeting her parents.
Larry's relationship with his new girlfriend is threatened when she takes on the "mermaid" role in a show skit, and wants to use it as a springboard for her career.
epguides.com /LarrySandersShow/guide.shtml   (6111 words)

  
 Larry Sanders Show: The Entire First Season DVD - MovieWeb
In season one of {@HBO's Emmy award-winning series The Larry Sanders Show, audiences experienced the bizarre and often hilarious backstage antics of a late-night television talk show as rarely glimpsed by the outside world.
From the stress of floundering ratings to the foibles of being a celebrity and the outlandish quirks that define the entertainment industry, The Larry Sanders Show introduced a series of sometimes grating characters that audiences would come to simultaneously love and endure in the coming seasons.
In addition to host Larry (Garry Shandling), sidekick Hank (Jeffrey Tambor), and strong-arm producer Artie (Rip Torn), the first season of The Larry Sanders Show introduced audiences to such recurring celebrity characters as Mimi Rogers and Dana Carvey.
movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?043396047594   (208 words)

  
 DVD Review - The Larry Sanders Show: The Complete First Season
Sanders is very much the show business animal, constantly trying to balance his on and off camera personas.
The end result was a program that actually made you feel like a fly on the wall of a major TV show, complete with a cast of unique, well rounded characters that you loved and despised all at the same time.
There is no informative booklet provided, but there is a color leaflet, which provides episode titles and production credits for each show (be careful not to lose it, however, since there's no pocket or folder anywhere in the packaging to keep it safe).
www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews2/larrysanderss1.html   (1338 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - The Larry Sanders Show [TV Series]
An unconventional behind-the-scenes sitcom based on a fictional talk show and centering on its neurotic and self-centered host, The Larry Sanders Show bravely went behind the scenes of late night television and pulled no punches with its caustic humor and often abrasive mainstay characters.
Originally airing on HBO, the writers of The Larry Sanders Show were granted more freedom to express themselves, as well as accurately portray the often coarse backstage language, than would never be permitted on network television.
As Artie, the producer of The Larry Sanders Show, Rip Torn frequently provided Larry and Hank with the sort of level-headed advice only a seasoned producer can offer, even if he wasn't always quite so rational and restrained when it came to some of his own personal quirks.
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/215770/plot.jhtml   (331 words)

  
 CleverDonkey.com: The Larry Sanders Show (****) (TV)
Bravo shows it twice a night, and with TiVo I am now a regular viewer, and I have to say that this show is one of the best pieces of entertainment it has been my pleasure to experience.
In the show, Larry Sanders has a talk show that competes with Leno and Letterman, complete with real guests playing themselves as if they were on a talk show.
I mean, at some points in the show, you're watching Larry doing his show (the show within the show), and then other times you are watching the backstage/offstage stuff.
www.cleverdonkey.com /ViewArticle.asp?ID=44&Cat=Entertainment   (553 words)

  
 The Partial Observer - Top TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
I found my list heavily weighted with shows from the 60s and 70s so if I had to pick the best TV show on today, this would be it.
This show is a bastion of rational thinking in a soup of shouting and arms-folded scorn.
The most reliable show in television history because it offers a fresh story line every week, you don't have to "get to know" the recurring characters to appreciate it, and consistently interesting and thought-provking murder cases.
www.partialobserver.com /ReaderInvitational.cfm?RIid=4   (2586 words)

  
 DVD Empire - Item - Larry Sanders Show, The / DVD-Video
This was the original show that stretched the boundaries for HBO and it earned its reputation as one of the funniest shows on the ca
Skip to the last paragraph if you already know how great the Larry Sanders show is, and are only interested in a technical review of the DVD.
Instead of taking a job as a real life talk show host, Garry Shandling thought it would be more interesting to make a comedy series about being a talk show host.
www.dvdempire.com /exec/v4_item.asp?partner_id=10007441&item_id=44672   (352 words)

  
 The Larry Sanders Show
Larry and the executives are very happy about his witty oneliners and they ask him to join the big Larry Sanders family.
An offer Jake would love to accept, but there is one guy who tries to sabotage the whole thing.
It's Hank, the 'funny man' of the show (he's the one who does the remarks from the 'off'), who gives Jake a lot of trouble.
www.gary-kemp.com /gxtv-3.htm   (138 words)

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