It's Garry Shandling's Show

In this 1986-90 series, Shandling was the Penn & Teller of sitcoms: he deconstructed the magic, talking to viewers to let them in on the joke. (Even the theme song was about writing a theme song.) As self-referential comedies went, you never meta better one.

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