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Article: TV Preview; Heeeeere's Larry!; Talk Show Spoof Speaks Volumes
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- The Washington Post
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- August 14, 1992
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"The Larry Sanders Show" is brilliantly brilliant, wonderfully
wonderful and hilariously hilarious, the next step in the evolution
of the television talk show and a contribution to the betterment of
viewerkind.
Premiering tomorrow night at 10:30 on HBO, "Sanders" isn't
really a talk show, but it isn't quite a satire of talk shows
either. It briefly shows us life onstage at a typical late-night
talk show and expansively shows us life backstage, where the star
and his underlings and overlings wrestle with their own and each
other's fears and neuroses.
Garry Shandling, whose previous series, "It's Garry Shandling's