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Though largely forgotten, It's Garry Shandling's Show is a pivotal sitcom text that reclaims the self‐reflexive, meta‐narrative style of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show . Shandling births the contemporary sitcom by de‐centering the idealized nuclear family; using Brechtian direct address that fuses the sitcom with stand‐up comedy; and parodying specific genres, films, and television shows. These destabilizing features turn the calcified genre into the television equivalent of Mikhail Bakhtin's carnival.
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