Story within a story The Irish television series "Father Ted" features a television show, "Father Ben", which has characters and storylines almost identical to that of Father Ted. The television shows "30 Rock", "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip", "Sonny with a Chance", and "Kappa Mikey" feature a sketch show within the TV show. An extended plotline on the semi-autobiographical sitcom "Seinfeld" dealt with the main characters developing a sitcom about their lives. The gag was reprised on "Curb Your Enthusiasm", another semi-autobiographical show by and about "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David, when the long-anticipated "Seinfeld" reunion was staged entirely inside the new show. The
The Larry Sanders Show "The Larry Sanders Show". Matt Zoller Seitz wrote in "Time Out Los Angeles" that it introduced to television the cinematic technique of "walk and talk" where the camera follows the actors as they move around the offices in conversation. This later became an important part of the style of "The West Wing" and "ER". The show can also be seen as a distorted example of reality television because the portrayal of the talk show production is so convincing. According to Andrew Pulver in "The Guardian", "This is where it all began. The whole postmodernist, self-reflexive fact-fiction sitcom thing." After the