Seinfeld (Curb Your Enthusiasm) not well received by critics or fans. David previously refused to make a "Seinfeld" reunion, but he thought it would be funny to do it on "Curb Your Enthusiasm". He stated that it "was a perfect way to do something like that but not to do it. Under the guise of doing the "Curb" show, it was very relaxed and loose and easy." The original sets were used to reconstruct Jerry's apartment and Monk's Café, with Jerry's apartment updated to reflect the 11 years that had elapsed since "The Finale". Eric Goldman of IGN gave the episode a 7.4 saying
The Larry Sanders Show Brett Butler, Ellen DeGeneres, and Drew Carey. Garry Shandling took a slightly different path with the cable network sitcoms "The Larry Sanders Show" and its forerunner "It's Garry Shandling's Show". In "It's Garry Shandling's Show", Shandling makes use of the George Burns technique of directly addressing the audience. He speaks to the studio and home audiences as well as the other actors, often in quick succession. In both shows celebrity guests appear as themselves and Shandling essentially plays himself: a star of a television show and stand-up comedian with a distinctive "comic persona and rhythm". Shandling said, in an interview