The Larry Sanders Show (TV Series) Putting the 'Gay' Back in Litigation (1998) User Reviews

comic lightning strike

[robrosenberger · 10/10 · 21 December 2011]

The odds against lightning striking on all fronts when a show divides into three plot lines are staggering. Brian, fed up with Phil's gay jokes, sues the show for harassment. Scott Thompson's greatest moment. Both Wallace Langham's jokes and the pressures he's under are perfectly rendered...with an audacious climax between the two that would have missed the mark 99 tries out of a hundred. Meanwhile, Larry worries that his new girlfriend Ileana Douglas isn't a good enough guest to date. He bumbles around, then has a humorless moment that makes you realize for the first time in six seasons that he understands how f*#^ed up he is. Over on track C, Hank mines comic gold as he films celebrity friends doing farewell tributes to Larry. Bruno Kirby and Drew Barrymore are priceless.