Courteney Cox on The Larry Sanders Show

Alec Baldwin on the Larry Sanders Show

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The Larry Sanders Show is a satirical television sitcom that aired from August 1992 to May 1998 on the HBO cable television network in the United States. It starred stand-up comedian Garry Shandling as vain, neurotic talk show host Larry Sanders, and centered on the running of his TV show, and the many people behind the scenes. It is notable for featuring celebrities playing exaggerated, self-parodying versions of themselves, and for its character-based humor. Other series which subsequently aired on HBO, such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Extras, and Entourage, shared these traits.

The series, in which Shandling used his experience as a guest host on The Tonight Show, is ranked by various critics and fans as one of the best TV comedies of the 1990s. The series ranked #38 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, the only HBO comedy to make the list. It was also included in Time magazine's list of the "100 Best TV Shows of All Time."

The show won 24 major awards, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, five CableACE Awards, four American Comedy Awards, two British Comedy Awards, a BAFTA Award and a Satellite Award. It also received 86 nominations, including 56 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, five Directors' Guild of America nominations, six Writers' Guild of America nominations, six American Comedy Awards nominations, three Golden Globe nominations, three Satellite Awards nominations and a GLAAD Award nomination.

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Critical reaction

After the show ended, the New York Post called it "One of the Greatest Achievements in Television". LA Weekly called it "Very Funny". Time said it was "The Closest Sitcom Ever Came to Perfect Pitch". The Washington Post called the show "Brutally and Blatantly Hilarious" and USA Today gave it four stars.

Many critics alike called it one of the greatest television shows of all time. Metacritic gives the show a metascore of 96%, based on 8 reviews. Ken Tucker from Entertainment Weekly said "Revisiting former colleagues and friends to find out how they felt about both Larry Sanders and Garry Shandling amounts to a monumental display of ...fearless revelation and humor." Doug Elfman from the Chicago Sun-Times said "It is simply the one of the best sitcoms ever". Ivan Morales calls it "the greatest HBO sitcom of all time".

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* Alec Baldwin
* Roseanne Barr
* Marina Maximova
* Ed Begley, Jr.
* Richard Belzer
* Sandra Bernhard
* Clint Black
* Carol Burnett
* T-Bone Burnett
* Brett Butler
* Jim Carrey
* Dana Carvey
* Elvis Costello
* Billy Crystal
* Ellen DeGeneres
* Danny DeVito
* Illeana Douglas
* David Duchovny



* Peter Falk
* Chris Farley
* George Foreman
* Jeff Goldblum
* Bobcat Goldthwait
* Hugh Hefner
* Bruno Kirby
* k.d. lang
* Sugar Ray Leonard
* David Letterman
* Jon Lovitz
* Norm Macdonald
* Martin Mull
* Catherine O'Hara
* Ryan O'Neal
* Sarah Jessica Parker
* Bernadette Peters
* Regis Philbin



* Rob Reiner
* Burt Reynolds
* Michael Richards
* John Ritter
* Mimi Rogers
* Winona Ryder
* Bob Saget
* Pat Sajak
* Adam Sandler
* George Segal
* Jerry Seinfeld
* Doc Severinson
* Pauly Shore
* Richard Simmons
* Gene Siskel
* David Spade
* John Stamos
* Howard Stern



* Shadoe Stevens
* Jon Stewart
* Sharon Stone
* Alex Trebek
* George Wendt
* Robin Williams
* Henry Winkler
* Steven Wright
* Warren Zevon

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Op vrijdag 16 september 2011 21:13 schreef Mike het volgende:
Misschien wel m'n favoriete comedyserie.

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Op vrijdag 16 september 2011 22:01 schreef One_conundrum het volgende:

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Ken je trouwens het interview van Gervais met hem ook? Briljant

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Op maandag 14 november 2011 22:04 schreef CaptainCab het volgende:
Hey now!