James Kaplan’s 2004 profile on Larry David, the star and creator of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” on HBO, and co-creator of “Seinfeld,” on NBC.
David had a reputation as a comic’s comic—“which means I sucked,” he likes to say. His material was uncompromisingly to his own taste, filled with wild tirades about apparent trivialities. In one routine, he went on at length about the use of the familiar “you” in foreign languages . He imagined himself as a professional masturbator so talented that people stopped him on the street to ask for advice . He wondered how answering machines might have changed the Old West.
The show wasn’t quite like anything that had been on TV before. The real-life details , the handheld camera , and the improvised dialogue made the show much closer to the bone than “Seinfeld.” “Seinfeld” was scherzo, its fun stemming from the constantly shifting play among its troupe of four. David’s new form was simpler and starker. There was a basic triangle: Larry; Jeff, his manager, who helps get him into trouble ; and Cheryl, his wife, who calls him to account.
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