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Critic Reviews
Jul 17, 2013
Season 6 Review:
This brilliant and aching and achingly brilliant series is the best original sitcom in the history of cable TV. [15 Mar 1998]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 6 Review:
"The Larry Sanders Show" begins its sixth season in top form, with no letup in its steady flow of spot-on sendups and ironic rubs. [13 Mar 1998]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 6 Review:
As you watch "Larry Sanders," the lines fly by and hit you with a sweet sting. Laden with crass cultural references and blistering put-downs, the show's scripts are usually dense with delights. [12 Mar 1998]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 6 Review:
Perfectly seasoned, unassailably adult, brooding, base and piercingly
funny, it is as good as everybody says it is, perhaps even better. While plot
descriptions and joke recitation can suggest the intelligence and wicked wit
of this portrait of life backstage at a "Tonight"-style TV talk show, only
seeing it can convey how vivid and penetrating it is. [15 Mar 1998]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 6 Review:
Sanders' return is a reminder that Seinfeld is not alone as a significant achievement and advancement in contemporary television humor. [13 Mar 1998]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 6 Review:
"Larry Sanders" remains a piece of small-screen art, a series whose wildly colorful characters and flawless execution make it the wittiest half-hour on TV. [12 Mar 1998]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 5 Review:
It takes a literate, cynical look at showbiz and, in doing so, creates fine art. [12 Nov 1996]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 5 Review:
Television's funniest, nastiest comedy series. [13 Nov 1996]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 5 Review:
"The Larry Sanders Show" opens its fifth season tonight by reminding viewers just how extraordinary it is, not only as one of the funniest, smartest comedies ever, but also in sometimes having celebrity guests depict themselves in ways almost as curious as stories on "The X-Files," the otherworldly Fox series that made [guest David] Duchovny famous.
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Jul 17, 2013
Season 5 Review:
It's as brilliant, hard-edged and hilarious as ever. [13 Nov 1996]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 5 Review:
The Larry Sanders Show is brilliantly back, perhaps better than ever. [13 Nov 1996]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 5 Review:
Based on this season's first two episodes, "The Larry Sanders Show" maintains its killer aim: It's never been more deliciously caustic or more viciously on-target about Hollywood insiders' egos and insecurities -- or more outright hilarious. [12 Nov 1996]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 5 Review:
When a series starts off great and just keeps getting better, it's television-classic time. And as "The Larry Sanders Show" racks up its fifth 13-week season, that's precisely what is happening on HBO.
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Bitterly, brutally, blatantly hilarious. [19 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Filled with a terrific ensemble cast breathing life into characters that stay just this side of being caricatures, stinging Hollywood putdowns that cut to the funny bone and some of the sauciest true-to-life dialogue imaginable, 'Sanders' is the definition of sophisticated adult humor in the '90s. [16 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
The globe's smartest, funniest, greatest comedy series. [19 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Probably the best comedy series on television. ... "The Larry Sanders Show" offers the sharpest of television's multitudinous media jokes while always remaining grounded as a comedy rooted in character. [16 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
The sharpness of the writing and the crispness of the acting demonstrate that cable's best situation comedy has lost none of its bite as it begins its fourth season. [19 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
The writing is bitingly crisp, profane and bull's-eye funny. [18 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Brilliant. [18 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
The smartest and funniest sitcom on television. [19 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
"The Larry Sanders Show" brilliantly exploits the medium as it mocks it. [19 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
This twisted comedy of Tinseltown manners - so wicked insidey and sharply observed - shines through brilliantly here. "Larry Sanders" is arch TV about craven TV with no pretensions - if such a thing is possible, and it obviously is. [18 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
It's mean. It's nasty. It's dirty. It's sick. It's addictive. It's "The Larry Sanders Show," the funniest comedy series on television. [19 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
In addition to being riotously and savagely funny, propelled by more great characters than the average night of network programming, it gets you thinking about what's hiding behind those curtains that Johnny walked through on so many nights. [19 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Hasn't lost one whit of its wit between seasons. [19 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
When it's supposed to be funny it is funny. When it could be trite, it's still funny. When it might be poignant ... it's very funny. [19 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 3 Review:
An utterly dry and brilliantly written dissection of life behind the host's desk. And with its unflinching but affectionate inside look at the pettiness, narcissism and deceit that characterize the TV business, it's probably truer than most of the networks' fact-based miniseries. [22 Jun 1994]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 3 Review:
It is even better - if that is possible, and it is. Take my word. We are talking true comedic masterpieces here. [20 Jun 1994]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 3 Review:
A darkly hilarious look at the neurotic personalities and duplicitous machinations of late-night talk shows, it's the smartest and most ruthless show about TV ever on TV. [22 Jun 1994]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 2 Review:
[A] brilliant and acid satire of late-night TV that scores its bitter points with the zing of a Variety headline. [2 Jun 1993]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 2 Review:
"Larry Sanders" seems to be continuing waspishly along on track, blurring the line between reality and fantasy in wry, inventive ways, using a show biz milieu to comment on a lot more than just show biz. [2 Jun 1993]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Subtle, sophisticated, witty, cutting and right on target. [14 Aug 1992]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Scathing but hilarious, the series finds its richest material in spoofing showbiz pretentiousness. ... [Shandling] has brought something new to the sitcom format: a devastating commentary on the medium itself. [15 Aug 1992]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 1 Review:
They'd better set up a separate category for HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" when Emmy time comes around. [13 Aug 1992]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Laugh-out-loud and sad all at once, The Larry Sanders Show shines merciless light in the heartless dark night of TV. [14 Aug 1992]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 1 Review:
"The Larry Sanders Show" is brilliantly brilliant, wonderfully wonderful and hilariously hilarious, the next step in the evolution of the television talk show and a contribution to the betterment of viewerkind. [14 Aug 1992]
Jun 12, 2013
Jul 17, 2013
Season 6 Review:
"The Larry Sanders Show" is the most painful comedy on TV, and I mean that as a compliment. At its best, this half-hour sitcom, set in and around a Los Angeles-based talk show, achieves a sublime level of cruelty. [13 Mar 1998]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 5 Review:
Even though this is not the strongest season opener in the history of the series, it still makes most of the sitcoms on the broadcast networks look weak of knee and soft of head. [13 Nov 1996]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Remains one of TV's best sitcoms. [19 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 4 Review:
As cheerfully goofy and bizarrely on target as ever. [19 Jul 1995]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 3 Review:
Deadpan lunacy has never worked better for Mr. Shandling and his splendidly merry gang of featured players. [22 Jun 1994]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 3 Review:
"The Larry Sanders Show" returns for another season with a full barrel, taking exact aim at backstage eccentricities, connivances and weaknesses. [20 Jun 1994]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 2 Review:
As witty and well-written as comedy series get. ... They used to say it was impossible to satirize something as self-satiric as television. That was before "The Larry Sanders Show." [1 Jun 1993]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 2 Review:
A vicious and timely show-biz satire. [1 Jun 1993]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 2 Review:
Shandling is perfect in a role he created, skillfully balancing arrogance and insecurity; Torn, always exasperated, and Tambor, forever fawning, are spectacular foils in a show that is stunningly quick-witted. [2 Jun 1993]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 2 Review:
The Larry Sanders Show is still a first-rate, one-of-a-kind walk through a talk-show looking glass. [2 Jun 1993]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 2 Review:
This isn't the stuff network sitcoms are made of, but that's what makes The Larry Sanders Show so special. Adult, darkly funny, it jabs the medium for its excesses and pretentiousness. [2 Jun 1993]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Shandling adeptly bends the line between reality and TV's make-believe. [14 Aug 1992]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Razor-edged satire of late-night talk TV from people with an ear for truth and a taste for blood. [14 Aug 1992]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 1 Review:
It's a clever melding of real-life and on-camera stuff that's down and dirty and diabolic in its intent. ... An absolute gem. [14 Aug 1992]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 2 Review:
At its best, "Sanders" takes the late-night smorgasbord and wickedly stirs it to a froth. [1 Jun 1993]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A clever combo - sophisticated sitcom meets late-night talk show. [14 Aug 1992]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 5 Review:
Television's blackest comedy. [13 Nov 1996]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 2 Review:
There's a shrewd madness in this straight-faced satire. [2 Jun 1993]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 2 Review:
The show's supporting cast assists tremendously in convincing viewers that they are watching behind-the-scenes wranglings at a well-known talkshow, and the creative decision to delve more into Sanders' off-screen life could be a wise one to help expand the show's appeal. [2 Jun 1993]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 3 Review:
The humor is meaner and the laughs less free and easy. [22 Jun 1994]
Jun 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
By making seemingly real people do bad things, 'Larry Sanders' becomes an adept satire of corporate and human behavior as well as a delicious satire of a specific industry. [19 Sep 1992]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Unfortunately, the next two episodes are not up to the [premiere's] standards, but the series still promises an enjoyable weekly joust with the puffed-up image that some TV types assume viewers still believe in and accept as real. [14 Aug 1992]
Jul 17, 2013
Season 1 Review:
If the writers and producers are able to trust a little more in their characters and resist the broad gags, this may develop into a grown-up show. [14 Aug 1992]
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