TV Series· 2000· Sitcom

Curb Your Enthusiasm

by Larry David

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Seinfeld

TV Series · 1989

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Curb is the show Larry David made out of the one he had just left. He co-created Seinfeld and wrote the George Costanza half of it out of his own life; Curb removes the intermediary and puts him on screen as himself. The method is Seinfeld's, pushed further: a half hour assembled from small social infractions that converge in the last two minutes, no moral, and no character allowed to learn anything. What is new is the production, outlines rather than scripts with the dialogue improvised inside them. The seventh season stages a Seinfeld reunion inside Curb, which is the show saying the connection itself.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

David stars as a fictionalized version of himself and the show follows his life as a semi-retired television writer and producer in Los Angeles and, for one season each, New York City and Atlanta. Also starring are Cheryl Hines as his wife Cheryl, Jeff Garlin as his manager and best friend Jeff Greene, Susie Essman as Jeff's wife Susie, and J. B. Smoove as Larry's housemate Leon Black. It often features celebrity guest stars, many of them playing fictionalized versions of themselves, including Ted Danson, Richard Lewis, Wanda Sykes, Rosie O'Donnell, and Jon Hamm.