Now it goes, "There's no business but show business." The premium cable service, previously the home of "The Larry Sanders Show," offers only a small number of original series each year. Folks in flyover land might not laugh as hard as viewers in the biz, but there's still a universal quality that makes "The Comeback" irresistible.

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