The show's influence is certainly still being felt -- most noticeably on NBC's "30 Rock," with its show-about-a-show, and on HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," where Larry David plays a neurotic ...

On Aug. 15, 1992, HBO premiered The Larry Sanders Show, a series that would change the face of television comedy forever.

Garry Shandling acknowledges the audience during a photo session after a showing of the final episode of The Larry Sanders Show. Behind him, from left, are co-stars Rip Torn and Jeffrey Tambor.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Garry Shandling, who as an actor and comedian masterminded a brand of self-inflicted phony docudrama with “The Larry Sanders Show,” has died of an apparent heart attack.

Part of what gave The Larry Sanders Show its bite is that Garry Shandling was very much a product of this smarm factory he was satirizing. He got his start in the 1970s as a writer on classic Me ...

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"The Larry Sanders Show" ran for six seasons on HBO from from 1992-98. The series, created by and starring Shandling, centered on a fictional late-night talk show host.