It's really good in the first five or so seasons but loses the magic later on, as most long-running comedies do. It stops catching you off guard, same problem as Always Sunny.

I'd add that it's a distinctly unbingeable show, probably for that same reason of beginning to feel your way through the catastrophes. I can do about two episodes max before I get desensitized. Simpsons, I top out at four.

Have you watched this year? I was of the same opinion but really enjoy the latest season.

The show itself is fine. The comedy normies that deify the show are insufferable.

I think I'm midway through Season 3 at the moment (Larry was shuttling a dog back and forth between two families last I saw) and I have got to say, this is not the side-splitting, nonstop laugh riot I have heard devoted fans make it out to be.

Best of clips of Larry Sanders Show are still worth watching on youtube. But I'd don't know if I could sit down and watch entire seasons of it glued to every word; the way we watched Larry Sanders when it first ran on HBO back in the 90's. Followed by Mr Show and what was the other half-hour show? Not as good as Larry Sanders or Mr Show, Tenacious D based show maybe.

One of the funniest scenes I have ever seen in any show was in the Black Swan episode, where Funkhouser was offered free lifetime dues if he told the country club owner who killed his swan. Bob Einstein RIP.

Police Squad! and Lookwell are examples prior to The Larry Sanders Show that did not employ the laugh track. In fact, the reason given that Police Squad! was cancelled was because without a laugh track it required too much effort from the viewer to understand the humor.