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It's Garry Shandling's Show: The Complete Series
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July 3, 2012 "Please retry" | — | 16 |
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| — | $124.08 |
Format | Full Screen, Multiple Formats, NTSC |
Contributor | Garry Shandling |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 16 |
Runtime | 31 hours |
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Product Description
For The First Time On DVD, All 72 Episodes Of Garry Shandlings Groundbreaking First Television Series
. . . audacious, satirical, hip, sophisticated and wonderfully silly, and often miraculously all of the above at the same time. TV Guide
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 Carsons 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, Its Garry Shandlings 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 and generally exploding the genre and making art of the debris.
Teaming up with Saturday Night Live writer Alan Zweibel, the two men 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, David Mirkin, who would go on to write 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, Red Buttons, Jeff Goldblum, Don Cornelius, The Turtles, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and more.
From its unforgettable theme song to its closing credits, Its Garry Shandlings 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.
Bonus Features:
* 6 Featurettes With Cast, Crew and Writers
* It Only Looks Easy: Episode Outtakes
* Original Promos
* 18 Commentaries
* And More!
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It doesn't get more meta than Jerry Carbone's irresistible theme song to this game-changing 1986 sitcom that paved the way for The Simpsons and Seinfeld (several of the writers went on to work on those series), Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, and others. Broadcast on Showtime to critical acclaim and later on Fox to abysmal ratings, It's Garry Shandling's Show is an audaciously original self-reverential sitcom starring Shandling as endearingly vain, insecure, and whiny standup comedian Garry Shandling, whose life is a sitcom. ""You must lead a very interesting life,"" someone observes in season 4. ""No, I don't,"" Shandling responds, ""and it's been a stumbling block through the whole series."" From the opening monologue in each episode to asides that thoroughly demolish the fourth wall between performer and the audience (""You didn't get to meet Jackie last week because we hadn't cast her yet""), It's Garry Shandling's Show turns the sitcom format on its head. Most times the actors go about their business, and other times, their characters, too, get in on the postmodern act. ""Thanks a lot for the big part in the show this week, Uncle Garry,"" a character sarcastically comments in one episode. In other surreal developments, Shandling one time departs for New York to star in a new cop series, leaving his show to be fronted by venerable comedian Red Buttons. At one point, audience members make themselves at home on the set while Shandling is out, and at the beginning of season 4, the network president (Richard Fancy, the future Mr. Lippman on Seinfeld) disapproves when Shandling announces his new girlfriend (the charming Jessica Harper) will be joining the cast. He suggests instead that Shandling hire a butler (a comic premise to which Seinfeld later paid homage when Jerry and George pitched their own sitcom to NBC in the fourth season).
Comedy greats, old and new school, from Steve Allen to Martin Mull and Chevy Chase, appear as themselves. An episode to cherish is ""Mr. Smith Goes to Nam,"" which features the last television appearance of Gilda Radner, whose final wink to the camera is perhaps reason enough to purchase this set. Others include the prodigious bonus features, including outtakes, a series retrospective, and very honest commentaries (writers Al Jean and Mike Reiss likewise express reservations about giving Shandling a steady love interest, ""a conventional sitcom move for an unconventional sitcom""). It's Garry Shandling's Show enjoys a mystique among comedy buffs, but it has not been seen in syndication or ever been released on home video. How does it hold up? As Shandling's mentor, comedy club owner Mr. Peck (Danny Dayton), describes Shandling's first stage appearances, ""It's as good today as it was in those days."" He did not mean it as a compliment; we do. --Donald Liebenson"
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.85 Pounds
- Item model number : 27425522114
- Media Format : Full Screen, Multiple Formats, NTSC
- Run time : 31 hours
- Release date : July 3, 2012
- Actors : Garry Shandling
- Studio : Shout! Factory
- ASIN : B002AMVGCW
- Number of discs : 16
- Best Sellers Rank: #98,500 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #11,211 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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That was then. Now, both of those things are still funny to me, but more of the show is, too. "You'll get to meet Pete's wife next week. She wasn't in this episode because we haven't cast her yet." Characters in the show will have been watching the show when they're not onscreen. Garry will narrate to his audience that time has passed in order to make the transition between events. In an early episode, Garry leaves his apartment and members of the studio audience take the opportunity to hang out in his place, watch his TV and, if I recall correctly, use his shower. The show's perspective is such a strange one that it can't help but be unforgettable.
The show does date itself a little heavily, but not so much that one can't enjoy the deconstructive nature of a show about people who know they're in a show.
I have an eye-roll for the people complaining about the price. They apparently don't understand quality, or math.
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The packaging is very good and the book is mainly an episode list with what episodes are on what discs and where to find the extras. Very helpful. There are two discs in each slim DVD case.
Overall, I have found it to be worth the money spent.