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It's Garry Shandling's Show: Complete Series [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
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Format | Multiple Formats, Full Screen, NTSC |
Language | English |
Number of discs | 16 |
Runtime | 31 hours |
Publication date | 20 Oct. 2009 |
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 page 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!
Product details
- Is discontinued by manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 1.78 x 19.05 x 13.72 cm; 839.15 g
- Item model number : 27425522114
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Full Screen, NTSC
- Run time : 31 hours
- Release date : 20 Oct. 2009
- Studio : Shout! Factory
- ASIN : B002AMVGCW
- Number of discs : 16
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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.
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.