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It's Garry Shandling's show Season two [videorecording (DVD)].

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Shout Factory, [2009].

DVD GAR Season 2

Comedians -- Drama.

9781603993067 (set)

1603993061 (set)

Alternate title:

Garry Shandling's show. Season two [videorecording (DVD)]

It's Garry Shandling's show [videorecording (DVD)] : The complete series. Season two

[videorecording (DVD)].

4 videodiscs (ca. 435 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Contains all 17 episodes from Season two, originally broadcast on television in 1987-1988, plus bonus features on 4 discs.

Special features: Commentaries ; outtakes ; "Being there": the cast remembers ; original promos.

[Standard 1.33:1 full frame].

Disc 1. Who's Poppa? -- No baby, no show -- The fugitive -- The Schumakers go to Hollywood -- Nancy gets amnesia -- Disc 2. Angelica. Part 1 -- Angelica. Part 2 -- It's Garry Shandling's Christmas show -- Killer routine -- Disc 3. Mr. Sparks -- The soccer show -- Our town -- Save the planet -- Disc 4. The Grant shuffle -- Go go Goldblum -- Garry falls down a hole -- Mr. Smith goes to Nam.

A presentation of Showtime Entertainment ; producer, Alan Zweibel ; creators, Alan Zweibel & Garry Shandling ; director, Alan Rafkin.

Garry Shandling with Molly Cheek, Scott Nemes and Michael Tucci.

"Before the Internet, before reality TV, no one saw what television could be more humorously and with more vision than Garry Shandling. In 1986 Garry Shandling was poised to become a permanent guest host on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show. Instead, he took a chance on an offer from fledgling cable network Showtime to create his own television series. No questions asked. A surreal look at the daily life of a young single man who is a comedian, It's Garry Shandling's Show was not a typical sitcom: Shandling would break the 'fourth wall' to include the studio audience and the viewers at home in on the actual making of the show. Experimenting with the sitcom form meant inviting the audience onto the set, playing with the passage of time ('It's now two weeks later') and generally exploding the genre and making art of the debris. Teaming up with Saturday Night Live's Alan Zweibel, Shandling 'put on a fourth-grade play' every week for four seasons. With a crew of talented young writers (including Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Al Jean, Michael Reiss and David Mirkin, who would go on to Seinfeld and The Simpsons, and Ed Solomon, who wrote Men In Black), television history was made. Over the years, guest stars (playing themselves) included Tom Petty, Rob Reiner, Vanna White, Red Buttons, Dan Aykroyd, Martin Mull, Gilda Radner (in her last TV performance), Carl Reiner, Chevy Chase, Jeff Goldblum, Don Cornelius, The Turtles, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and more. From its unforgettable theme song to its closing credits, It's Garry Shandling's Show was award-winning, mind-bending television for four seasons, and its influence is clearly seen in the best TV comedies through the decades to follow."--Set container.

Television comedies.

Parody television programs.

Shandling, Garry.

Nemes, Scott, 1974-

Tucci, Michael, 1946-

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