The Larry Sanders Show in its entirety on DVD. Sony was struggling to get the music rights and so they put out the first season on DVD and then a “best of” that harvested 23 (out of 89) of the show’s greatest episodes, while also getting star Gary Shandling to host some of the most amazing ever produced for DVD. Leave it to The Shout Factory! – those artists of TV box sets – who cleared all the red tape so we can now have the complete six-season, eighty-nine run in a gorgeous box set that includes all previous supplements, and adds new content.This is a powerhouse cast, though most episodes offer guest stars. Some of the more memorable guest spots are the one’s done by Alec Baldwin – who has slept with Sander’s ex (Kathryn Harrod), David Duchovny – who nurses a strange crush on Larry.
Gary Shandling stars as Larry Sanders, a talk show host dealing with the passive aggression of Hollywood, and his support staff – with producer Artie (Rip Torn) and sidekick Hank Kingsley (Jeffery Tambor) his main collaborators. The show follows the last six years of the show as it goes from being a reasonably successful late night talk show spot, to one where the network is looking for a younger voice, with that voice being Stewart. That Stewart plays himself shows how much the show blended reality and comedy.Those are some of the money guests, but there’s an amazing range of actors and actresses who show up and often mock their image, including Sean Penn, Mimi Rodgers, Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller, Dana Carvey, Carol Burnett, Ellen Degreneres, George Segal, Roseanne Barr, Brett Butler, Elvis Costello, Jeff Goldblum, Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Jennifer Aniston, and more.
Shandling is Sanders, a neurotic talk show host who is dripping in Hollywood behavior. Larry likes to be the loved guy – he tells all the guests that he’s a big fan while not always knowing their work, he likes using the show to meet women, and likes his role as the king who doesn’t know how everything behind the scenes is done, but is still the boss. His right hand is Artie (Rip Torn), his producer and the guy who can get angry for him and say no, but can chatter endless about how great a guest is, and is happy to get them a fruit plate. He’s a bullshit maestro. The other hand is his sidekick Hank Kingsley (Jeffery Tambor), whose catchphrase is “Hey now!” and is mostly buffoonish, but also has an underbelly of and anger that is tempered by him being exceptionally clueless. The support staff includes Larry’s personal assistant/secretary Beverly Barnes (Penny Johnson), writers Phil (Wallace Langham), Jerry (Jeremy Piven) and Wendy (Sarah Silverman), Hanks PA’s Darlene (Linda Doucett) and then later the very gay Brian (Scott Thompson), talent wranglers Paula (Janeane Garofalo) and Mary Lou (Mary Lynn Raskub), and Larry’s agent Stevie Grant (Bob Odenkirk), who is a true asshole.
Project Runway DVD Set, The Glee Project DVD Set, Psych DVD Set
.jpg)
