~terry
Sun, Oct 6, 2002 (13:16)
seed
Curb Your Enthusiasm is Larry Davids piece de resistance, a fitting followup to the lives of the cast members post Seinfeld. The series started in October of 2000, so it's been around two years now and I don't believe it's taken me this long to create a topic for it! It's already won at least one Emmy (do a fact check on this), and it's one of the funnest shows I've seen. I look forward to every episode.
Here's the deal, Larry's kind of a frumpy guy, he's kind of an average guy who always gets in to trouble because of his awkwardness and bluntness. He has a gorgeous wife played by Cheryl Hinds. She's hot. What does she see in him? Well, he's rich for one thing and some women may find Larry good looking, what do you think?
Larry's bright but he's bored. He has a big ego and he trusts his ego, he may not have very good insight on himself.
You always wonder if the real Larry David isn't very much like the Larry David on this tv show. He has some great friends that show up on the show, like Ted Dansen, Julia Louise Dreyfuss, Richard Lewis, etc.
~terry
Sun, Oct 6, 2002 (13:25)
#1
There have been some great episodes and the last one was awesomely funny, especially the ending to the last episode. I did a tivo instant replay at least 5 times on this ending. Talk about helplessness and irony and priceless looks on the faces of Larry, Cheryl, Ted Dansen and the other supporting character. Priceless!
Club Soda and Salt was one of the funniest episodes ever.
This season just kicked off last Sept 15th, along with the first episode of Sopranos. So there are a lot of new episodes coming up.
Here's a good NPR piece from last year on the show:
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2001/larrydavid/011027.larrydavid.html
~terry
Sun, Oct 6, 2002 (13:35)
#2
They do a ten episode season, each episode is 30 minutes.
I'm listening to the NPR interview via realaudio from the above website.
It's a great interview. Larry says the real Larry David isn't this guy, good thing. He "expresses a lot of things that people are thinking about" "the stories are difficult to write" "I write it for me, I'm the audience. I write it to amuse myself." "People are invariably dissappointed when they meet me." "It's all ad libbed" !!!
Sunday nights on HBO.
~terry
Sun, Oct 6, 2002 (15:19)
#3
from the npr.org piece:
In its excavation of the darkest, most humiliating corners of Mr. David's
personality, the show is indeed not unlike Seinfeld. But there are other
comparisons to be made. It is somewhat akin to, but not really derivative of, The
Larry Sanders Show another reality-blurring cable vehicle that explored mid-life
male angst and self-loathing. In some ways, it's a more-controlled version of the
comedy of neurosis-king Richard Lewis, who has appeared as a guest star. But, based
as it is so closely on Mr. David, it couldn't help but be truly original. One
episode, "The Thong," had Mr. David plotting to escape his therapist, a pudgy,
middle-aged gentleman whom Mr. David saw wearing the offending garment on the
beach. The site was so ghastly, so horrifically traumatizing for Mr. David, that he
simply couldn't bring himself to face the man any longer. But he was equally afraid
of telling his therapist why he was leaving, so he pretended to be cured. In this,
he was less than convincing.
~terry
Sun, Oct 6, 2002 (15:25)
#4
The official show site:
http://www.hbo.com/larrydavid/
New season of Emmy�-nominated HBO series gets critical raves!
The third season of Larry David's critically-acclaimed HBO comedy series continues with episode 24, The Nanny, premiering Sunday, October 6 at 10pm ET/9pm C. Larry, Cheryl, Jeff and Susie encounter a "nanny from hell" whose reign of terror is thwarted by--ten sponge cakes! Guest stars include Cheri Oteri, Tim Kazurinsky, Michael York and Richard Lewis. Can't wait? Catch an encore airing of episode 23. Tom Shales of The Washington Post says about the new season, "If we gave out stars with reviews around here... Curb Your Enthusiasm wouldn't get four; it would get four hundred." Missed the first two seasons? They're currently re-airing on HBO Comedy.
~terry
Mon, Oct 21, 2002 (08:46)
#5
Amazing episode. Larry plays a Jewish gangster on a Scorcese production, and wyou won't believe how totally different he looks with the big head of hair. It's double take material.
And the bit about his mom's death. Or it's more about the dead mother excuse. It's tinged with the Sopranos and Six Feet Under!
~cfadm
Sat, Jul 1, 2006 (21:08)
#6
That was a really great Larry DAvid episode.