about larry? baby busters, whatever the 46 million young souls are called are turning out larry sanders, that is. to be a hard sell. he's the tv alter ego of comedian garry shandling. >> in the '90s, what we realized >> garry shandling wanted to do is advertisers would pay premiums for college educated young adults 18 to 49. we started reinventing nbc and a show that deconstructed the trying to speak to that audience. >> where is someone? i'm starving. kind of show "the tonight show" was. >> this is him right here. >> just pretend like you're talking to me till we're off the air so it won't seem weird. >> okay. blah, blah, blah, blah. >> "the larry sanders show" was >> is there a table ready? >> the chinese restaurant was sort of cathartic. one of the very, very early because in the world of "the larry sanders show," there was a episodes of "seinfeld." network. >> you want me to [ bleep ] your and truly nothing happened in budget? the episode. is that what you want me to do? they were waiting for a table. >> so it became this weird funhouse mirror thing, where you >> i feel like just walking over there and taking some food off could use stuff from your of somebody's plate. misery, your career, as fodder. >> don't take this as a threat >> we said to larry david, hey, but i killed a man like you in like nothing happens. and larry was offended. korea, hand to hand. my boy doesn't want to do any he was like wildly offended. more commercials. >> larry sanders to me was, aside from being a brilliant >> nbc believed in the show so they said we're committing to four episodes. >> yes, yeah, right. four episodes. >> normally it's 13 or 8 or