The previous review stated that The Performance Artist satirized Bill Hicks' set being cut from an episode of The Late Show with David Letterman. Untrue. In a weirdly prescient coincidence, this episode of The Larry Sanders Show first aired over a month BEFORE Bill's final Letterman performance. (The Performance Artist - 25 August 1993, Bill Hicks on Letterman - 1 October 1993).
It is notable mainly for that reason & Roseanne calling Larry out for censoring the performance artist (Tim Miller) - would that Bill have had the same kind of support back in the day.
The Performance Artist is a great measure of this program's reading the pulse & pressure of the late night TV talk show environment and is as valid (and funny) today as it was back in the early 1990s.
It is notable mainly for that reason & Roseanne calling Larry out for censoring the performance artist (Tim Miller) - would that Bill have had the same kind of support back in the day.
The Performance Artist is a great measure of this program's reading the pulse & pressure of the late night TV talk show environment and is as valid (and funny) today as it was back in the early 1990s.