Jeff Schaffer the sitcom Seinfeld. He also served as executive producer during its ninth season. He has also held various other positions on the show such as program consultant, supervising producer and story editor. Schaffer directed several episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and also served as executive producer for several episodes. Notably, Schaffer directed "Seinfeld", the finale episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm"s seventh season, which featured a reunion of the original cast of the "Seinfeld" series (for which the star and creator of "Curb Your Enthusiasm", Larry David, was co-creator, head writer and executive producer). "The League" is a "semi-improvised series." The
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