[ bleep ] up the white house. like the grass won t be cut. dishes piled up, cousins running through the white house, cookouts, basketball goal in the back. in the late 80s, hbo was just sort of gaining ground for series. by the 90s, hbo had started to begin its explosion. when we started doing dream on, one of the things that hbo said to us was, it s got to be something that couldn t be on network tv. because hbo was driven by subscribers and not by commercials and selling advertising time, they had a different way of looking at success or failure. what they were looking for was critical acclaim. you ve watched letterman, you ve watched leno, but what about larry? larry sanders, that is. he s the tv alter-ego of comedian gary shandling. gary shandling wanted to do a show that deconstructed the kind
make more money but you ll also have content restricted. you could go to cable and have no restrictions. not make as much money but have freedom of expression, which almost everybody who works in these mediums wants. some of the content truly was, you can t get this anywhere else. you re a fantasy maker, the only limit on the kinds of fantasies is people s imagination. hbo turned to people who said, i can t do that on television, but you can do it on hbo. white people don t trust black people. that s why they won t vote for no black president. like a black brother will [ bleep ] up the white house. like the grass won t be cut. dishes piled up. cousins running through the white house. cookouts. basketball going in the back. in the late 80s hbo was just sort of gaining ground for series. by the 90s hbo had started
was, you can t get this anywhere else. you re a fantasy maker, the only limit on the kinds of fantasies is people s imagination. hbo turned to people who said, i can t do that on television, but you can do it on hbo. white people don t trust black people. that s why they won t vote for no black president. like a black brother will [ bleep ] up the white house. like the grass won t be cut. dishes piled up. cousins running through the white house. cookouts. basketball going in the back. in the late 80s hbo was just sort of gaining ground for series. by the 90s hbo had started to begin its explosion. when we started doing dream on, one of the things hbo said to us was, it s got to be something that couldn t be on network tv.
like the grass won t be cut. dishes piled up. cousins running through the white house. cookouts. basketball going in the back. in the late 80s hbo was just sort of gaining ground for series. by the 90s hbo had started to begin its explosion. when we started doing dream on, one of the things hbo said to us was, it s got to be something that couldn t be on network tv. because hbo was driven by subscribers and not by commercials and selling advertising time, they had a different way of looking at success or failure. what they were looking for was critical acclaim. you ve watched letterman, you ve watched leno, but what about larry? larry sanders, that is. he s the tv alter ego of comedian garry shandling. garry shandling wanted to do
only limit on the kinds of fantasies is people s imagination. hbo turned to people who said, i can t do that on television, but you can do it on hbo. white people don t trust black people. that s why they won t vote for no black president. like a black brother will [ bleep ] up the white house. like the grass won t be cut. dishes piled up. cousins running through the white house. cookouts. basketball going in the back. in the late 80s hbo was just sort of gaining ground for series. by the 90s hbo had started to begin its explosion. when we started doing dream on, one of the things hbo said to us was, it s got to be something that couldn t be on network tv. because hbo was driven by subscribers and not by commercials and selling