**The Larry Sanders Show** is a groundbreaking show that not only holds up incredibly well for a 30-year-old show, but It's also oddly prescient. It's 30 Rock years before 30 Rock and it's Curb Your Enthusiasm long before that OTHER Larry perfected the art form. Larry Sanders walked so these shows could run, as it was the first big show to feature celebrities playing exaggerated or fictionalized versions of themselves. The core trio of Shandling/Torn/Tambor is flawless. Larry Sanders also stands the test of time because it's literally a window to a particular comedy time frame. This show can also be seen as a bit of a Historical Document, as Larry Sanders hit the airwaves literally RIGHT in the midst and fallout of the Late Night Wars of the early 1990s. Even Bill Carter, who wrote The Late Shift said _"Without ever actually being a full-time late-night host, Garry Shandling put an artistic stamp on the genre as indelible as the mark left by any of his contemporaries."_