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smalltalkbigwalk t1_j9a7vta wrote

Reply to comment by CarpenterAndSuch in The Larry Sanders Show is still such a great, great show by BigEvil621

Don't forget 30 Rock! Larry Sanders and 30 Rock are two of the very few comedies that I have saved to offline media. Larry's comedy is potent enough that I expect some random Garry Shandling scene to offend some fringe niche group horribly enough for episodes to be removed, which was what happened with 30 Rock.

Also I feel like some early Conan has been very heavily inspired by bits from this show.

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CarpenterAndSuch t1_ja0zugn wrote

I never thought about the early Conan / Larry similarities before! Conan has always played "himself" as a perpetually unpopular and transparently needy talk show host so there's definitely a tonal overlap between his Late Nite persona and TLSS.

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collinsmcrae t1_jadhmz6 wrote

Don’t know about that, as Conan started around the same time as TLS. It would be awfully strange to draw inspiration from a factionalized talk show from a sitcom that was on the at the same time as your own real talk show. And Gary was parodying cliches from actual talk shows, and the backstage environment. The fictional TLS didn’t really do much that set itself apart from traditional talk shows, and Conan’s show, while a bit edgy and crass compared to other contemporary shows, was still very much a traditional talk show format, so naturally there would be some similarities.

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