The Larry Sanders Show is an American television sitcom set in the
office and studio of a fictional late-night talk show. The series was
created by Garry Shandling and Dennis Klein and aired from August 1992
to May 1998 on the HBO cable television network.The series stars
Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, and Rip Torn and features celebrities
playing exaggerated, self-parodying versions of themselves. The show
has its roots in Shandling's stand-up comedy background, his
experience as a guest host on The Tonight Show and his earlier sitcom
It's Garry Shandling's Show. The program has had a marked and
long-lasting influence on HBO as well as on television shows in the US
and Britain such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock and The Office. The
supporting cast includes Janeane Garofalo, Wallace Langham, Penny
Johnson, Linda Doucett, Scott Thompson and Jeremy Piven.The series
stars Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, and Rip Torn and features celebrities
playing exaggerated, self-parodying versions of themselves. The show
has its roots in Shandling's stand-up comedy background, his
experience as a guest host on The Tonight Show and his earlier sitcom
It's Garry Shandling's Show. The program has had a marked and
long-lasting influence on HBO as well as on television shows in the US
and Britain such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock and The Office. The
supporting cast includes Janeane Garofalo, Wallace Langham, Penny
Johnson, Linda Doucett, Scott Thompson and Jeremy Piven.The show
received universal acclaim from critics and is often regarded as an
influential and landmark series. It ranked 38 on TV Guide's 50
Greatest TV Shows of All Time, the only HBO comedy to make the list,
and 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, two Peabody 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.From the
mid-1980s to the late 1990s, there was a stream of American stand-up
comedians finding success in sitcoms on broadcast network television,
including Bill Cosby, Roseanne Barr, Richard Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld,
Tim Allen, Paul Reiser, Tom Arnold, Brett Butler, Ellen DeGeneres, and
Drew Carey. Garry Shandling took a slightly different path with the
cable network sitcoms The Larry Sanders Show and its forerunner It's
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