"Television Parts" also featured guest appearances by a number of comedians, including Martin Mull, Whoopi Goldberg, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Martin, The Funny Boys and Garry Shandling, whose appearance on the show was the seed for "It's Garry Shandling's Show".One of the show's featured pieces, "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey" was later picked up by "Saturday Night Live".