This Is the Theme to Garry’s Show Lyrics
This is the theme to Garry's show
The theme to Garry's show
Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song
I'm almost halfway finished
How do you like it so far?
How do you like the theme to Garry's show?
[Verse 2]
This is the theme to Garry's show
The opening theme to Garry's show
This is the music that you hear as you watch the credits
We're almost to the part of where I start to whistle
Then we'll watch It's Garry Shandling's Show
[whistling]
This was the theme to Garry Shandling's show
About
It’s Garry Shandling’s Show (1986–1990) was a groundbreaking American sitcom co-created by comedians Garry Shandling and Alan Zweibel. Shandling stars in the series as a fictionalized version of himself. In every episode, he steps out of the story’s action now and then in order to comment on the events of the story, to interact with the video cameras, and to address the audience directly. Like the show itself, the theme song’s lyrics are written to be self-referential.
Q&A
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Vocalist Bill Lynch remembers recording the song in one take:
I went up to this recording studio in a house in the Hollywood Hills. Joey Carbone, who wrote the song, was there. So was [film and television] producer Brad Grey …
They told me, “Here’s how it goes, here’s what we want.” I go into the studio and put these headphones on and they said, “Let’s get a level.” I sang the thing, then sat there about 30 seconds waiting. Then they said, “Thank you. We’ve listened to it a couple times, and this is exactly what we wanted.”
Then I walked out of the studio, stopped and turned around and said, “Excuse me, but who is Garry Shandling anyway?” They fell on the floor laughing. They thought it was hilarious I didn’t know who he was.