The Larry Sanders Show
The Larry Sanders Show Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | ||
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| S1 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 8.3 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 8.1 | ||||||
| S2 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.3 | |
| S3 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 7.6 | 9.1 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.4 | 7.6 | 7.6 | ||
| S4 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 7.9 | 7.4 | 9.1 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 8.8 | 7.3 | ||
| S5 | 7.8 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.2 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.6 | ||||||
| S6 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 9.4 |
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"The blueprint for every fake-nice showbiz comedy since"
A late-night talk show host navigates ego, insecurity, and backstage chaos with his producer and sycophantic sidekick. The show-within-a-show format lets you see the fake warmth performed for cameras and the pettiness that follows the second they cut to commercial. It's dry, cringing, and quietly cutthroat, more interested in humiliation and vanity than jokes-per-minute. The pace is unhurried and conversational, riding entirely on performances and razor-sharp, deadpan writing rather than plot. It's a chamber piece about showbiz insincerity that influenced basically every workplace comedy that came after it.
the razor-sharp study of ego and fake sincerity behind a talk-show desk.
you want fast jokes and plot momentum rather than slow-burn character cringe.
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