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ARTIE: You finally got to do a sketch with the great Carol Burnett! LARRY: It wasn't a sketch. It was a massive spastic fuck-up. ARTIE: Tomayto, tomahto! The horrifying rumor? Sony cannot lock up rights to the highly-integrated music featured in loads of installments of “The Larry Sanders Show,” the best live-action American sitcom of all time, and we may never see another season-box of the series.

The considerable consolation is Sony just released Not Just the Best Of The Larry Sanders Show, which for just $32.49 boasts 23 of the show’s 89 episodes and a vast array of alluring extras. The 23 episodes are: 1.1 What Have You Done for Me Lately? 1.3 The Spider Episode 1.13 The Hey Now Episode 2.3 The List 2.6 The Hankerciser 200 2.7 Life Behind Larry 3.6 Hank's Night in the Sun 3.7 Office Romance 3.8 The Mr. Sharon Stone Show 3.13 Hank's Divorce 4.7 Hank's Sex Tape 4.11 I Was a Teenage Lesbian 5.1 Everybody Loves Larry 5.2 My Name Is Asher Kingsley 5.4 Ellen, or Isn't She? 5.13 Larry's New Love 6.1 Another List 6.2 The Beginning of the End 6.4 Pilots and Pens Lost 6.5 The Interview 6.6 Adolph Hankler 6.10 Putting the “Gay” Back in Litigation 6.11 Flip (series finale) DVD Special Features Include: * Documentary: The Making of The Larry Sanders Show * Featurette: Trio * Exclusive Interviews: Personal, Intimate, Indulgent Meetings With My Friends That Are Meant Only for Me to See - Interviews with: Alec Baldwin Ellen DeGeneres David Duchovny Tom Petty Jerry Seinfeld Sharon Stone Jon Stewart Carol Burnett * Featurette: Interview with Penny Johnson * Featurette: Interview with Wallace Langham * Featurette: Interview with Scott Thompson * Featurette: Interview with Janeane Garofalo * Featurette: Interview with Mary Lynn Rajskub * Featurette: Interview with Sarah Silverman * Featurette: Interview with Jeremy Piven * Featurette: Interview with Bob Odenkirk * Featurette: Interview with Linda Doucett * Deleted and Extended Scenes * Alternate Takes * Audio Commentary and Documentary Introduction on What Have You Done for Me Lately with Garry Shandling and Peter Tolan * Audio Commentary and Documentary Introduction on Hank’s Night in the Sun with Garry Shandling and Todd Holland * Audio Commentary and Documentary Introduction on Putting the “Gay” Back in Litigation with Garry Shandling and Judd Apatow * Audio Commentary on Flip with Garry Shandling and Peter Tolan * Digitally Remastered Audio and Video * Full Screen Presentations * Audio: English (Dolby Surround) * Subtitles: Spanish * Closed Captioned From Sony’s press release:

With More Than 8 Hours of Newly-Produced Material Including Garry Shandling in Personal and Intimate Meetings With Stars Like Alec Baldwin, Tom Petty, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, and More, This DVD is... NOT JUST THE BEST OF THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW The DVD Set Also Includes 23 Classic Episodes of the Emmy Award-Winning TV Program, the Documentary - "The Making of The Larry Sanders Show" - and Features Guest Appearances by Jason Alexander, Warren Beatty, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Sean Penn, Vince Vaughn and More The Four-Disc DVD Collection Debuts on April 17 Culver City, Ca (February 5, 2007) - Forget about the 23 featured episodes of the Emmy Award-winning "The Larry Sanders Show" (it received a whopping 56 Emmy nominations during its run on HBO). NOT JUST THE BEST OF THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW contains more than eight hours of newly produced material that makes this not just your usual DVD - not even close! The four-disc DVD boxed set debuts on DVD on April 17 at the suggested retail price of $49.95. This innovative, provocative and hugely entertaining release includes personal, intimate, indulgent visits meant until now for only Garry Shandling to see - raw, real-life situations between Shandling and stars who appear in the featured episodes - including Alec Baldwin, Tom Petty, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Sharon Stone and many others. These unrehearsed visits surpass even the Larry Sanders reality, as they once again explore the core ingredients of the ground-breaking program - unexpected human behavior, truth and humor. The DVD includes the documentary, The Making of The Larry Sanders Show, which reveals an in-depth and surprising look at the process of turning a script into a show that was ahead of its time. The Los Angeles Times selected Garry Shandling’s series as one of ten TV programs that had “inarguable influence” on the industry and this DVD is a celebration of the series’ unique place in entertainment lore. NOT JUST THE BEST OF THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW also features guest appearances on the featured episodes by a wide slate of stars which includes Jim Carrey, Vince Vaughn, Warren Beatty, Sean Penn, Ellen DeGeneres, Jason Alexander, Carol Burnett and Winona Ryder. The featurette "Rip Torn and Jeffrey Tambor Visit Garry Shandling in His Living Room" is a reunion of Shandling, Torn and Tambor discussing working together on the show. Also included are interview featurettes with cast members Penny Johnson, Wallace Langham, Scott Thompson, Janeane Garofalo, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Sarah Silverman, Jeremy Piven, Bob Odenkirk, and Linda Doucett. The Larry Sanders Show debuted on HBO August 1, 1992, and was ahead of its time, becoming an immediate critical and audience hit for its satirical, tongue-in-cheek look at Hollywood. The series that combined documentary-like camerawork with a clever blend of fact and fiction set the standard of quality for HBO and influenced the development of shows like Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The Office. Over the course of its six-year, 89-episode run, the series was nominated for 56 Emmy Awards [winning three: Outstanding Writing (Shandling & Peter Tolan); Outstanding Directing (Todd Holland); Outstanding Supporting Actor (Rip Torn)]. The show also won three Golden Globe nominations, two Peabody Awards, and five CableACE Awards for Best Comedy Series.

Also entering the market today is The Larry Sanders Show: The Complete First Season, a re-release with much better cover art.

“IGNORE ME!!!!!” – Grand Galactic Inquisitor “Make way for the Homo Superior!!” – David Bowie The Venture Bros.: The Complete Second Season also streets today. The series is easily the funniest thing ever produced for The Cartoon Network. It often rivals even "South Park" and Sam Simon-era "Simpsons" in its genius. Christopher McCulloch (a.k.a Jackson Publick), whose writing credits include stints on both the animated and live-action versions of "The Tick," took the characters of "Jonny Quest" and realed them up just enough to maximize their comedy potential. Where kid adventurers Jonny and Hadji were quick-witted and well-spoken, Venture preteens Hank and Dean are tirelessly puerile. Where Dr. Benton Quest was heroic and good-natured, Dr. Thaddeus Venture is impatient, short-tempered and prone to fits of despair. Where Race Bannon demonstrated a penchant for overpowering evil spies with well-placed uppercuts, Venture bodyguard Brock Samson (voice of Patrick Warburton) demonstrates a handy knack for bloodshed, torture, and dismemberment. Alarmingly entertaining supporting players include deformed sibling Jonas Venture Jr., necromancer-neighbor Dr. Byron Orpheus, Orpheus’ hot goth daughter Triana, the Humanoid Electric Lab Partner Robot (HELPR), easily frustrated butterfly-supervillain The Monarch, The Monarch’s stunning yet fiendishly man-voiced Dr. Girlfriend, college rival and tyrant dictator Baron Werner Underbheit, aging hydrocephalitic "boy genius" Master Billy Quizboy, effeminate albino genius Mr. White, superhero/scientist Richard Impossible and the Impossible Four, astronaut Bud Manstrong and the conjoined Tiny Attorney. Season two revisited all these characters and added many a well-conceived new one: the difficult-to-ignore alien Grand Galactic Inquisitor, the Russian superspy Molotov Cocktease, the strung-out middle-aged Jonny Quest, Triana’s girlfriend and fledgling supervillain Kim, the imprisoned Manic Eightball, Blacula-slaying superhero Jefferson Twilight, and magic-murder-bag-toting Dr. Henry Killinger. In “¡Viva los Muertos!” “Tick” creator Ben Edlund introduces the aging “Groovy Gang,” which paid homage not only to the Scooby Gang, but also serial killers Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz (still talking to dogs), kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst and lesbian would-be Warhol assassin Valerie Solonas. We learned in season two that Dean and Hank are no strangers to the choir invisible. We found out what Monarch henchmen 21 and 24 look like outside their butterfly suits. We were made privy to three conflicting secret origins of supervillain Phantom Limb. We discovered that Venture Enterprises has its own spider-like Walking Eye. And we came to know that musical cohorts David Bowie and Iggy Pop are possessed of an unlikely array of superpowers. Only $20.99 for 13 episodes. How cool is that box??

Also out today is Shadow Warriors: The Complete First Season , which features martial arts movie icon Sonny Chiba as 15th century ninja master Hattori Hanzo. Recall that Chiba played a modern Hattori Hanzo – reputedly the great great great great great great grandson (or something) of 1980s TV version – in “Kill Bill.” The set comes complete with a new Chiba interview!

60% Off NewsRadio!! In celebration, presumably, of the release of the final season of “Newsradio” last month, all previous extra-crammed sets of the series are available for less than $16 each! $15.99 NewsRadio Season One and Two $15.99 NewsRadio Season Three $15.99 NewsRadio Season Four

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