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...Larry Sanders Show (HBO) A sitcom about a talk show, starring a real-life talk-show host, who last starred in a sitcom as himself, a comedian with a sitcom. One's first impulse is to tell Garry Shandling to get a life. The second is to revel in this wicked expose of show-business narcissism -- TV's shrewdest media satire since Tanner...
...Comedy is tragedy plus time. These funny people have a lifetime of things to say and are enough distance away from any pain to talk about it," says Judy Carter, a Los Angeles comic, comedy teacher and author of Comedy Bible: From Stand-Up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide...
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT FOX, Mondays, 8 P.M. E.T. Critics have spent two years�trying to bolster this show, without success. So here's a change in strategy: do not check out TV's best sitcom when it returns this month. Yes, this screwball comedy about an idle-rich family has simplified its story lines so new viewers can catch up. But who cares? Crackling interplay between a top-notch ensemble, the fastest blizzard of jokes this side of The Simpsons and sly guest appearances by stars from Scott Baio to Charlize Theron-- they're all overrated. Besides, intense belly laughs...
...unique on TV these days; while he’s no Michael Richards, as you may have seen in ‘Hitch’ he is a very adept physical comedian, combined with his verbal chops. He’s joined by one of the few sitcom wives with any personality, Leah Remini and the legendary Jerry Stiller—father of Ben—as her live-in father. This weeks’ episode marked the departure of Nicole Sullivan, who plays dog-walker (and senior-citizen walker Holly) for a co-starring role on the new show...
...Extras” is slow-paced, and while it’s not in faux-documentary style like “The Office,” it is not quite a sitcom, either. There’s no laugh track, and there are moments, like some of those at Wernham Hogg Paper Merchants, when the show feels like a full-fledged drama. It takes a little bit of time to get used to. But just watch Andy’s monologue at a Catholic discussion group, and you’ll be sold. The humor, while sometimes more offensive than...