Innovative comedian
Garry Shandling, regarded by some as one of the funniest and most innovative comedians working today, spearheads a new format in television sitcoms with his “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” debuting tonight at 8.30 on One. While the offbeat series has the obligataory opening theme song, the obligation stops there. It is not a tune to set viewers humming — rather, it serves as a warning that what follows is the result of some lively, mischievous minds at play.
Shandling talks directly to the audience at the top of each show and at numerous other times during the programme. He also, on occasions, invades the studio benches and includes the audience in the proceedings, soliciting their opinions as to how to carry on — unprecedented behaviour for an actor appearing in a scripted show. He engages his crew, camera operators, whomever, in his wanderings, and works all these normally behind-the-scenes people very much into the scenes. j
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Press, 23 July 1987, Page 11
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