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

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Shout Factory, [2009].

DVD GAR Season 4

Comedians -- Drama.

9781603993067 (set)

1603993061 (set)

Alternate title:

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

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

[videorecording (DVD)].

4 videodiscs (ca. 490 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Contains all 19 episodes from Season four, originally broadcast on television in 1989-1990, plus bonus features on 4 discs.

Special features: Commentaries ; outtakes ; "Try to remember," a conversation with Garry Shandling and Alan Zweibel.

[Standard 1.33:1 full frame].

Disc 1. First show of the fourth season -- Take my girlfiend, for example -- Nathan's sheer madness -- Super Grant -- Dinner at Eddie King's house -- Disc 2. The proposal -- Firehose -- The day Howard moved in -- The wedding show -- The honeymoon show -- Disc 3. Shandling vs. Mull -- Leonard gets metaphysical -- Chester gets a show -- My mother the wife -- Family man -- Disc 4. Mad at Brad -- The last show -- The talent show -- Driving Miss Garry.

Producer, Alan Zweibel ; creators, Alan Zweibel & Garry Shandling ; director, Alan Rafkin.

Garry Shandling, Molly Cheek, Scott Nemes, Michael Tucci and Jessica Harper.

"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-

Harper, Jessica.

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