Editing The Larry Sanders Show (section)

=== Critical reaction ===
After the show ended, the ''[[New York Post]]'' called it "one of the greatest achievements in television." ''[[LA Weekly]]'' deemed it "very funny." ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' said it was "the closest sitcom ever came to perfect pitch." ''[[The Washington Post]]'' called the show "brutally and blatantly hilarious" and ''[[USA Today]]'' gave it four stars.

Many critics called it one of the [[List of television shows considered the best|greatest television shows of all time]].<ref name=latimes /><ref name=telegraph>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/dvd-reviews/8410940/The-Larry-Sanders-Show-DVD-review.html|title=The Larry Sanders Show, DVD review|access-date=27 March 2013|location=London|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Mark|last=Monahan|date=28 March 2011|archive-date=15 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115011719/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/dvd-reviews/8410940/The-Larry-Sanders-Show-DVD-review.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=rolling /> [[Metacritic]], which uses an [[weighted average]], gives the show a score of 95 out of 100 based on 69 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web |title=The Larry Sanders Show |url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-larry-sanders-show |accessdate=June 19, 2023 |website=Metacritic|publisher= |language=en-US}}</ref> Doug Elfman from the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' said "It is simply one of the best sitcoms ever." Ivan Morales calls it "the greatest HBO sitcom of all time." Brooke Allen in the ''New York Times'' called it "a comedy series so funny and risque as to make ''Seinfeld'' look positively bland".<ref name=nytimes4>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/24/bib/990124.rv041526.html|title=CONFESSIONS OF A LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST|access-date=19 March 2013|work=The New York Times|archive-date=28 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828022643/http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/24/bib/990124.rv041526.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Mark Monahan in ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'' called it "very close indeed to comic perfection."<ref name=telegraph />