the Larry Sanders Show

my favorite is probably the episode where hank and his ex-wife's home sex tape circulates around hollywood, and hank prays to god for it not to affect his orange juice industry spokesmanship:

"As you know, sex is a consensual act between two or more adults."

i love the david duchovny episode as well.

bonus points for when they hired Sarah Silverman. She was hot back then. Hank's assistant was priceless.

larry sanders is followed by dream on!

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why did you google that? were you looking for thank-you sites?

more like momentary curiousity about how many others have felt the need to express their gratitude in words.

this really is one of the greatest shows ever

agreed. wish there was a second box set coming out...

how can all the seasons be available for torrent if they never came out as DVDs? surely they haven't been recorded to VHS when initially on and then digitised recently?

I watched the entire run of the show last year, thanks to someone seemingly having done just that. Great stuff, though I probably watched it too quickly, so it became a bit of a daze or haze or mayonnaise after a while

Anyways, I guess they might have ripped them from re-runs rather than crusty old tapes. I no longer recall what the image/sound quality was like. I've definitely found rips of other old shows that very obviously were taken from aged cassettes though.

i think about this show all the time. i annoy my wife by singing "ride a painted pony make the spinning wheel bwaaa"

lol

I'm on probably my fifth or so rewatch atm. It just never loses its magic.

I’ve been doing an episode here or there for months, third or fourth rewatch — I think I’m in the fifth season now and even at that pace I don’t want it to ever end

Finished what I think is my fourth time through. I could fill eight screens with all its brilliance--much of it I've noted before in this thread--but a minor quibble that I kept noticing throughout this time: Larry is often mediocre at best as an interviewer, and sometimes he's flat-out terrible. Maybe that's intentional--a comment on the format itself--but he's viewed as something special by the people he interviews, so that's a bit of a disconnect for me. I don't keep up with talk shows anymore: maybe Fallon and Colbert and the rest are no better. That's not my memory of Carson or Letterman, though.

One of my very favourite things: the show is a time capsule of the '90s, but played off against that, primarily via Artie (but Larry, too, witness him watching Jack Paar's farewell), another world long-gone: Jackie Gleason, Totie Fields, Andy Williams, etc.

The actual show we're watching is otherwise brilliant enough that I've long assumed that the in-universe show is intended to kind of suck and that Larry Sanders is intended to be a pretty mediocre talent.

(And one that celebrities hoping to get booked again are quick to kiss up to. Because it's partly an exposé of people with a pathological need for attention.)

I'm actually in my first watch of this show though I'm spacing out the seasons a bit (finished S2 so far). It doesn't have as many laughs as I was expecting but I'm enjoying it

I've gone back and forth on whether Larry's a good host or not. He's a bit low energy but he can be pretty funny with guests. The monologues are where he really flounders imo

The best recurring joke on Flight of the Conchords was how much they sucked whenever shown actually playing live in front of other people.

the show-within-the-show is always losing in the ratings to leno and letterman

The actual show we're watching is otherwise brilliant enough that I've long assumed that the in-universe show is intended to kind of suck and that Larry Sanders is intended to be a pretty mediocre talent.

― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch)

I've always thought he was supposed to be just good enough to keep the job on the network he was on, but not good enough to move up to a more prestigious spot. And he kind of knew it.

I just finished watching the whole series for the first time starting about 6 months ago and finishing a couple weeks ago. Really great job of sustaining the humor and interest, and I'd say ended just at the right time.

And by "always thought" I mean in the past several months I've been watching.

btw, anyone know where I can find Bojack Horseman post season 3? (besides subscribing to Netflix, of course).

where can I find a netflix-made-and-exclusive show without looking at Netflix or stealing it, you mean??

Larry is absolutely meant to suck shit as an interviewer (1st) and host (2nd), the bar just hadn’t been lowered to Fallon and Corden irl yet (or until 25 years later)

where can I find a netflix-made-and-exclusive show without looking at Netflix or stealing it, you mean??

Yes. They had the first 3 seasons on Adult Swim, which my cable has. Was hoping it might be hosted elsewhere now that it's fairly old.

Also: the first two seasons of Bojack where released on DVD/Blu (with extras) a couple years ago by Shout Factory with no news since about any subsequent releases.

We picked back up with Season 2 after a lengthy pause. "Larry's Agent" and "Hankerciser 200" seem top tier so far.

plumped for the box set. So good. Just finished it all, didn't realise he was in an irl relationship with Darlene at the time.

Rip Torn will always be my favourite character from this, the episode where he gets drunk after the show with the janitor is great.

Totally one of my favourite eps

"Arthur After Hours"--I mentioned it recently in connection to Breaking Bad.

BREAKING BAD vs MAD MEN

Love that Wu-Tang episode.

"Where's Dirty Old Bitch?"

I missed this when it came out last fall, but Jon Stewart talked about a Hitler sketch that was vetoed by a Paramount exec. This was on Stewart's ill-fated talk show, and it was indeed the inspiration for the Adolph Hankler episode of Larry Sanders (which Stewart apparently wrote).

(it's around the 8:00 mark, but it's worth hearing Conan's setup for context if you want to hear how both of them got a better perspective of how they were going to succeed)