WIN STUFF!! IT’S GARY SHANDLING’S SHOW Competition
To celebrate the Region 2 DVD release of It’s Gary Shandling’s Show on the 22nd of March I have been given three copies to offer as prizes to my lovely readers.
To enter, simply answer the question, before the closing date of the 1st of March, using the form below and keep your fingers crossed!
Before we get to the question, though, here’s a little background on the show:
Before the internet, before reality TV, what television series was more humourous and with more vision than ‘It’s Garry Shandling’s Show’. In 1986 Garry Shandling was poised to become a permanent guest host on Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show. Instead he took a chance of an offer from fledgling network Showtime to create his own television series.
The show was a surreal look at the daily life of a young single man who is a comedian. ‘Its Garry Shandlings Show’ was not a typical sitcom. Shandling would break the ‘fourth wall’ to include the studio audience and the viewers at home in on the actual making of the show. Experimenting with the sitcom form meant inviting the audience onto the set, playing with the passage of time (it’s now two weeks later) and generally exploding the genre and making art of the debris
Teaming up with Saturday Night Lives Alan Zweibel, Shandling ‘put on a fourth grade play’ every week for four seasons. With a crew of talented young writers including Tom Gammill. Max Pross, Al Jean, Michael Reiss and David Mirkin, who would go onto to Seinfield and The Simpsons and Ed Solomon who wrote Men In Black, television history was made. Over the years, guest stars (playing themselves) included Tom Petty, Rob Reiner, Vanna White, Red Buttons, Dan Akroyd, Martin Mull, Gilda Radner ( in her last TV performance), Carl Reiner, Chevy Chase, Jeff Goldblum, Don Cornelius, The Turtles and many more.
From its unforgettable theme song to its closing credits, ‘It’s Garry Shandling’s Show’ was award winning, mind bending television for 4 seasons and its influence is clearly seen in the best TV comedies through the decades to follow
Enjoy all 16 episodes from the first of four seasons of this much loved classic on DVD March 22nd 2010.
So now I’ve reminded you what this show was like, here’s the place to enter:
This competition has now ended.Good luck!
If you simply cannot wait, though, you can pre-order the DVD from HMV.
Competition Rules
1. Our decision is final. Simple as that
2. Entries that are received after the 1st of April will not be accepted
3. Entries that do not include your name and address will not be accepted (we will not use your name, address or email for anything other than this competition or pass them on to a third party)
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