Larry David Decoded
He is our sole cult hero, with the late John Belushi filling that slot before him. As a summer Vineyarder, he’s drastically famous: People recognize him even without ever having watched his comedy series “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Of those who’ve seen it, there are two categories: Those who’ve endured it once and declared, “Everyone’s so testy and unpleasant. I’d rather watch old ‘Cosby’ re-runs.” And then there are the rest of us who sponge it up, and who verbally trade favorite scenes like others swap baseball cards.
My own fav was the time in the deli when Larry decided his pal Richard Lewis had a better sandwich named after him than did Larry. To get back at him, he reveals he’s recently discovered he was adopted. Richard, whose comedy act has always included stories of his dysfunctional New Jersey Jewish family, is so envious, he drops the f-bomb. My son Charlie, a 27-year-old writer now living in LA, says his favorite “Curb” is when Larry “outs” the elderly Japanese kamikaze pilot in a nursing home: “How can you be a kamikaze pilot if you’re still alive?” Clearly, the guy missed the battleship, but is he going to miss Larry when he charges him in his wheel chair?
“Curb” is an improvisational series featuring a mega-successful TV writer / producer (Larry David created “Seinfeld”), pretty much playing himself, with actors portraying other key figures in his life, like his wife and his manager. Actors and comedians, including Wanda Sykes, Ted Danson and Richard Lewis, often play versions of themselves.
Larry’s character lacks that part of the brain with a conference table surrounded by censors with clipboards. Most of us have this brain monitor division fully active— i.e., should I tell her that skin rash looks like leprosy? Should I mention I missed his birthday party because he has boring friends? Would it be a bad idea to inform these people I don’t socialize with Republicans? No, no, and yes, the monitors will prompt us.
Larry maintains that he’s not the annoying jerk that makes us howl with laughter in his series. He revealed in a “Rolling Stone” interview: “We’re always doing things that we don’t want to, we never say what we really feel, and so this is an idealized version of how I want to be.”
But here on the Island where all of us are at our most relaxed, is Larry David one of the nicest guys you’d ever want to meet? Well, sometimes. A friend of mine who attends many of the same up-Island parties says, “He’s a good guy. Oh, he can be a little oblivious to social etiquette, but if he’s known you for a while, he pays attention. He wants to have a good time. He’s very interactive. People really do like him.
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