Larry Sanders

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I’ve just seen a couple episodes of The Larry Sanders Show, Garry Shandling’s show from HBO about life backstage at a late night talk show. It’s showing up in syndication late Saturday nights on channel 5 (NYC’s Fox affiliate, but I don’t know if it’s local or network programming), where Stargate SG1 used to. I’d heard lots of good things about it, but I found it only mildly amusing; pretty much the only reason I might watch it would be to stare at Jeanane Garofalo. I think it suffers from comparison with Sports Night, another TV show about a TV show, written by Aaron Sorkin, with really tight comic pacing and good writing.