--- title: The Larry Sanders Show description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103615/the-larry-sanders-show/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-12T14:33:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T23:01:25.129Z og:title: The Larry Sanders Show og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103615/the-larry-sanders-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4912585597b7c933/69869f27cd804de8fcccc4ee/t100_tv_larry-sanders-show1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Larry Sanders Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Larry Sanders Show twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4912585597b7c933/69869f27cd804de8fcccc4ee/t100_tv_larry-sanders-show1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 12, 2014 # _The Larry Sanders Show_ by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  Everett If there’s one thing Hollywood has more of than self-love, it’s self-loathe. Premiering right around the King-Lear-like bloodsport over the future of Johnny Carson’s throne, Garry Shandling’s comedy cast a gimlet eye on insecure, petty late-night host Sanders, and found no shortage of takers in showbiz to send themselves up: Ellen DeGeneres, Carol Burnett, Roseanne and David Duchovny, evincing the most unsettling man-crush TV has ever seen. But the needy heart of Sanders was its supporting characters, including Jeffrey Tambor as self-promoting, self-hating sidekick Hank “Hey Now!” Kingsley, and Rip Torn as Artie, the most terrifyingly unctuous producer ever to stalk a green room. Shandling revealed Hollywood’s blemishes like the world’s funniest jar of makeup remover. [Get This TV Series](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0767847563/?tag=timecom-20) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103615/the-larry-sanders-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103615/the-larry-sanders-show/"},"headline":"The Larry Sanders Show","datePublished":"2014-08-12T14:33:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:01:25.129Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103615/the-larry-sanders-show/","keywords":["Sitcom"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4912585597b7c933/69869f27cd804de8fcccc4ee/t100_tv_larry-sanders-show1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4912585597b7c933/69869f27cd804de8fcccc4ee/t100_tv_larry-sanders-show1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103615/the-larry-sanders-show/","name":"The Larry Sanders Show"}}]}] ```