Curb Your Enthusiasm

Has anyone seen this show? I heard from a friend at work that it's hilirious but haven't checked out an episode yet. Any advice from those who have viewed this HBO series?

I've never seen this show either, but also hear that it is very funny. I've seen previews for it, but don't even know when it's on. I should check it out.

TIS

Me too. I want to find sometime to actually be able to sit down and watch a good portion of Season 1, but I don't know how my schedule's gonna look for this weekend or next

CYE is my favorite show on tv. If you like Seinfeld, you'll like CYE. I own the first 3 seasons on DVD.

The star of the show is Larry David, the co-creator of Seinfeld. He plays himself but the other main characters are ficticous (his wife and his manager). The show is basically about all of the misunderstandings that happen in his life, and how people get pissed off at him. What makes CYE so different is that there is no script, it's all improvised.

About the Show

I also own the first 3 seasons on DVD. I would have to say this and the OC are the best shows on tv right now....

This show is like seinfeld except better, because there is swearing and nudity, so therefore its more realistic, and the situations are more realistic as well.

Thanks Freddie C & SicilianMafia. I'm gonna try to find time this weekend to watch at least half of season 1 and see how I like it. I'll try to let you guys know next week what I thought of it.

My friend let me borrow the first season of CYE. It is so funny. I think Larry David is a genius. My friend has the first 4 seasons on DVD and said they get better and better.

David is so neurotic and so obsessively compulsive on this show. It's a bit premature, but I think I may be liking this show more than Seinfeld when it's all said and done. It's certainly funnier than anything I've seen on tv since Seinfeld went off the air.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is the best Comedy show on TV, while Sopranos is the all out best.

I have seasons 1-4 on DVD. They are really, really, great. It honestly is just as good, if not better than Seinfeld. One reason, Larry David. I like him as a character so much more than any Seinfeld character. He's really too good at what he does.

The Doc

I couldn't agree more DonFerro. I loved the "Porno Gil" episode as well as well as the one where he was arguing with the parking attendants while going to appointments at his doctor's & lawyer's offices.

I can't wait to see the other seasons.

WHOA! Stop right there bud.

I've only seen a couple of episodes; the most memorable with Kevin Nash the wrestler. It's outrageously funny, but, I may say, an acquired taste...? Who knows, but I was actually planning on investing in the boxset.

Capo- Season Two is by far the best if you want to ease into buying every set.

It may well be, but I'd never watch a series backwards, or haphazardly. If I make a buy, it would have to be from the start. And the boxsets have been going very cheap lately over here.

I love this show! I started watching reruns on HBO (which are on every night at 6:30 & 10, CDT) and now I even got my parents watching it. Does anybody know anything about the next season? I know they're on hiatus right now, but I imagine they would have a new season coming up here some day..

You're lucky. Over here, they run about $40 a set.

Starting from the beginning is the best by far. Every episode stands on its own, but there are a few smaller subplots, mannerisms, etc that are better if youve seen them in order.
TIP: On the first seasons special features there is the hour long pilot episode. Watch that before any of the actual seasons episodes
EVEN MORE IMPORTANT TIP: Change "If I make a buy" in your post to "When I buy it". You wont regret it

I like the show!
man I like Larry David.
the show is as good as Seinfeld but I believe that Seinfeld was way better... because of Kramer

I bought the first season yesterday.

Post after you watch the "Porno Gil" and the one where L. David's wife's aunt dies. Those are the best episodes from Season 1 IMO.

WHOA! Stop right there bud. [/b][/quote]Lol okay you cant quote something I said a year and a few months ago... Alot has changed since then.

OC has gotten so bad it should be taken off the air. They regurgitate the same plots over and over. Im so sick of it. It was only good season 1.

And yes, Curb is...(besides sopranos) the best show on TV. The best episode ever would have to be in season 3 - club soda and salt.

"Krazy Eyes Killer"

"The Ski Lift"

Two of my favorites

great show

trick or treat one of my favorites


ld:bald as*hole thats a hate crime were a sect were a group

cop:sir, im bald and im not offended

ld:with all due respect officer, you have shaved your head to cultivate a fashionable look, we dont consider you apart of the bald community with all due respect

"Somebody get a sponge!"
"I dont understand, why don't you get a sponge? You're right next to the kitchen."

Too many good episodes to name them all

Really? I didn't care for that one as much as some of others. The one that had me doubled over laughing was "Thor." I loved the whole ass fetish thing and LD's confrontation with Thor.

I watched all of season one in two sittings, six episodes last night, four this morning as soon as I woke up. Admittedly haven't watched the hour-long pilot yet, but will before darkness comes round again.

"Porno Gil" was absolutely brilliant. Every episode was brilliant, but that one just had me dangerously creased.

here is a post of mine from almost 4 years ago trying to turn the board on to curb.


posted October 25, 2002 05:13 PM
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Anyone catch the begining this past Sunday with Larry David in a Mob flick directed by Scorsese.
It was great althought the rest of the show was not as funny as it usually is.

BTW - If you have'nt watched this show I highly recommend it. It is very funny and it is on right after the Sopranos.

Yeah, I was reading the back of one of the boxsets today (I'm gonna buy them soon enough), and saw Scorsese's name mentioned. Which season is that?

Season Three has Marty

BTW Porno Gil is a scream.

I think it is almost impossible to explain a plotline to an episode. You can't. You just gotta watch it

Capo - wait 'til you see "Shaq" in Season 2. Can't remember the season, but I also loved "Beloved Aunt."

"Beloved Aunt" is the penultimate episode of season one. Incredibly funny. I loved the one in which he doesn't tip the captain.

Are there more guest appearances as the seasons progress? I was under the assumption, before viewing season one, that there was a different one every episode.

My favorite CYE episode would have to be the one where Larry picks up the prostitute so he can get to the baseball game quicker via the carpool lane. Brilliant episode! Many of them are brilliant!

Not only does he pick up the prostitute but they get high with his dad. the best episode hands down.

Larry David, the show's creator, grew up in the same building development as me. He was four years older so I really didn't know him but he incorporated some of the residents into "Seinfeld" episodes (minor mentions).

I've watched "CYE" a few times, and even though I find it funny I just can't seem to really get into it. (I did see the prostitute show and thought it was hilarious, too).

Yes, both major and minor stars. As one of the previous posts stated, many are minor characters that appeared in Seinfeld. Others are Ted Danson, Shaquille O'Neill, Joan Rivers, Diane Keaton to name but a few. The Seinfeld main characters, save Michael Richards, have all made at least one cameo.

Anybody else think that LD's agent on the show, Jeff, looks very much like Mike Golic of EPSN Mike & Mike fame?

I watched the hour-long pilot earlier. I was tired, but I found it incredibly underwhelming; I appreciated the intertextuality, even if it was more explicit and obvious than the subsequent series. I don't know if this was the intention, but most of it just simply wasn't funny.

Capo

My friend let me borrow season one. I forgot to watch the pilot. But your assessment is essentially how he described it - more of a documentary than an actual episode and not all that funny.

Wait until you see "The Doll" in Season 2. Priceless.

I liked the pilot.

The part where HBO presents to Larry the possible setups for the stage of his comedy tour is really funny

^^^ "If I ever look like that, please just kill me"

This show is hilarious. This is me, everytime I watch an episode:

There are so many great episodes, it is hard for me to name my favorite ... as Michael Bolten said in Office Space about his favorite Michael Bolten album, "I guess, I sorta like 'em all."

I agree - every episode has its laugh out loud moments. I just finished Season 3 where Larry went to the doctor because he had a pubic hair caught in his throat and spent the entire episode trying to cough it up. In the finale, he hired a chef with Turrets to run his new restaurant. The problem being that the chef cooked right in front of everybody.

For those who care- Season 5 is coming out on dvd August 1st.

Man, Season 5 got trashed, but I liked it. I mean, you had a finale where David finally does something un-selfish, and guess what? Being geneous doesn't pay!

But man, he taught me a good lesson: Never argue with Moses on how to organize HBO DVDs.

I'll be there!

I don't have HBO but was wondering if anyone heard when Season 6 will start airing. I heard that they began filming in October of last year.

I was just looking at Best Buy to see when Season 6 will be released on DVD. I found a great deal: $14 each for seasons 1-5. They are regularly $35 each. So it was time for an early Christmas present to myself!

Season 6 is being released at the end of January.

I enjoy this show.I love the subtle comedy.
It's not in the same league as Seinfeld,but that being said,it is a completely different show.

Whisper

Here's a little taste from this season. Larry & his wife adopt a family whose house was severely damaged in a hurricane. Larry and one of the guys staying with him, named Leon, have identical phones that get in the wrong hands. Leon grabs Larry's and vice versa, both to disastrous and hilarious results.

phone swap

I think this show is better than "Seinfeld" and I love the latter.

hahaha thanks for the link Goombah.

I guess i'm more familiar with Seinfeld,But i do enjoy CYE a lot.Thanks again for the link.

According to this site, Season 7 will begin production in December and then air sometime in 2009.

'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Season 7 Coming in 2009

I can't wait to see what crazy ideas Larry has come up with again. I hope Leon is back and I will be interested to see if Larry and his wife get back together.

Time to order HBO again. Season 7 begins September 20th. HBO has a short clip on the show's homepage from the upcoming season. I'm ready to laugh my ass off again.

'Seinfeld' reunion comes together on new season of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'

Big news, "Curb" fans. I just listened to an interview with Jeff Garlin and he confirmed to Dennis Miller that Larry is hard at work writing Season 8!

It's funny, I just rewatched all of season 5 last week. "The Ski Lift" might be the funniest television episode in the history of the medium.

SPOILER ALERT: Watching Larry cough and grunt while pretending to be an Orthodox Jew, all in order to con a genuinely devout man into moving Richard up on the kidney donor list, was beyond brilliant. And the audio-sight gag at the end, when Larry's cell phone starts ringing from the nurse's "unusually large vagina," almost gave me a heart attack the first time I saw it. Literally. I could NOT stop laughing. My cheeks were purple and my wife thought I was gonna have to go to Emergency!

I still love Jerry, but the more I watch "Curb," the more I become convinced that Larry was the true genius behind "Seinfeld."

Anyway, here's the Jeff Garlin audio: http://multimedia.play.it/m/audio/29164928/jeff-garlin-interview.htm

FUCK HUGH!

Fuck Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh!

I heard Jeff last week on the radio stating that he and LD were already writing. That is good news. Next season needs more Susie, Richard Lewis and Bam Bam Funkhouser. And tons of Leon!

I'm with you Pizza Boy - I think "Curb" shows that Larry is the comedic genius. Jerry's great, but Larry is the driving force.

Oh it's not inside the box, it's not inside the box...

Larry's reaction is priceless in this scene:

Season 8 filming is under way, Goom. And most of it will take place here in New York. Who needs Lebron James? We have Larry David!

'Curb' ball

Larry, Rosie battle heat in Central Park

By MICHAEL STARR, NY Post

Leave it to sad-sack Larry David to pick the hottest day in years to shoot some scenes for next season’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

That’s David, Rosie O’Donnell and “Curb” co-star Jeff Garlin (l-r)in Central Park on Tuesday, wearing softball uniforms during an athletic shoot for “Curb,” which will be set mostly in New York City for the first time in show history.

David and Garlin wore T-shirts with “Yari’s Autonomics” emblazoned across the front, and could be seen tossing a softball to each other and to O’Donnell, on a day when temperatures reached a sizzling (and record) 103 degrees.

David, in some other scenes shot near Central Park, was dressed in his regular “Curb” uniform (sports jacket, Chinos and tennis shoes) gabbing with series regular Wanda Sykes.

Ah, Jeff Garlin, funny Chicago boy. He often appears on WGN radio with Garry Meier when he is back in town. He sang "Take me out to the Ballgame" at a Cubs game in May. He was talking about the upcoming season andit sounded great. BTW, am I the only one who thinks Cheryl Hines is gorgeous,or what?

I'd drink her bathwater.

My favorite Curb episode, hands down, is Season 4's "The Survivor." It was actually the first one I ever saw. I was watching an episode of season 5 of The Sopranos, and for some reason I didn't turn off the TV when it was over. "The Survivor" came on right afterwards. I didn't know anything about Curb at the time, but as I watched this episode, I remember thinking that it was one of the most incredible, daring, and audacious episodes of television I had ever seen in my life!

She is very attractive. I think she has improved her look over the years on "Curb," which is not easy to do. Larry getting Cheryl to love him always reminded me of Marisa Tome liking George Costanza.

A few of my favorite moments from last season.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EVWigkrGt8&feature=player_embedded#!

was that scene from an earlier episode? if so, was there a string of Seinfeld-related episodes leading up to the 7th Season finale?

in the actual "Seinfeld" episode, all there is to it is right in the beginning when Larry is talking to Cheryl and he mentions that Michael's "prognosis came back negative"

I'm way late, but I'm finally starting this series! I'd heard good recommendations from Seinfeld fans, and I figured I'd certainly love it... just now getting around to it, is all. I was immediately drawn in by the opening scene with the fold in his pants - such a typical "nothing" kind of event, which are always so relevant, and why I loved Seinfeld so much. My brother began it with me, and we're cracking up at how Cheryl does stuff that is frighteningly similar to our mom.

I'd taped today's Astros game, and even though I knew they lost, I watched it anyway because I enjoy hearing our announcers. It ended up being totally worth it because I got to hear Jim Deshaies do a great LD impersonation! I'm sure you Curb fans will appreciate it..

Video

Nice!

I had to tape it just to show my brother, since we've been watching the show together for a few months now. I was so excited I almost called him, but figured he should hear it for himself.

I might add, it's always refreshing to see you pop in, G!

Thanks, Geoff, I can never stay away from here.

Larry David still rules. Last night's season ten premiere made me laugh so hard that it physically exhausted me. That's all I got. I gotta see it again before I comment further😂😂.

amazing show i love it !!!

caught the new ep last night. larry's still got it, that might have been one of the funniest episodes of the series.

Oh Man, had to go to Manhattan for meet last two days......

Wife DVR’D , iM watching tomorrow for sure.

I haven't seen the latest episode, but I think Curb jumped the shark around the time JB Smoove was introduced.

Watch Seasons 1-4 and then watch modern Curb. It's like a completely different show; it's become much too self-aware. First of all, Larry David smirks through the entire thing like he's part of the joke. He also goes out of his way to be a jerk, whereas in the earlier episodes you could understand his motivations. It used to be a lot more organic. The series lost its documentary feel somewhere around Season 6.

It's a pity. Seinfeld's motto was "no hugging, no learning". Now it's like Larry has turned into what he originally preached against. Curb spoon-feeds the audience with contrived scenarios where Larry behaves as he is conditioned to.

Example: if he is walking into a building and someone is walking several steps behind him, he will pause just long enough, grunt knowingly, and close the door in someone's face rather than hold it open for them - just being an ass for the sake of being an ass.

The setups are just way too obvious.

I can only judge based on the trailers, but the stuff with Jon Hamm just reeks of fan service as well. Compare it to the natural chemistry with actors like Jason Alexander and Bob Odenkirk in older episodes. It's night and day.

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Watch Seasons 1-4 and then watch modern Curb. It's like a completely different show; it's become much too self-aware. First of all, Larry David smirks through the entire thing like he's part of the joke. He also goes out of his way to be a jerk, whereas in the earlier episodes you could understand his motivations. It used to be a lot more organic. The series lost its documentary feel somewhere around Season 6."

Agree, I get that feel and vibe as well.

I'm a third of the way into the first episode of the new season.

Nothing sums up modern-day Curb better than literally the opening shot which has a woman in the background laughing her head off at Larry and Leon as they walk down the street.

Later in the same scene, Larry breaks the selfie stick of two teenagers over his legs. While I share the sentiment (I, too, hate the concept of selfies/selfie sticks), it's not something the Larry of Curb's past would do. He would pass comment about it. Breaking it is something modern, self-aware, Larry would do.

The new Larry reminds me of Jerkass Homer prevalent in Simpsons episodes post-21st century, where he goes out of his way to initiate conflicts with people.

And while this has always been the case, the show used to be a lot more subtle about it. The newer Curb episodes are just dripping with smugness and self-awareness in a way that jars with older episodes where the setups were a lot more organic and believable.

In older episodes, it was roughly 50/50 whether you would take Larry's side on things; the show had a raw, realistic, almost documentary feel.

Now Larry goes out of his way to be an asshole in his interactions with people and is clearly a conduit for the layman's observations of modern social trends.

The show has become way too on the nose with its jokes, and nothing sums this up better than the scene where Jeff's resemblance to Harvey Weinstein is played up for laughs. It also has a tendency to run jokes into the ground, like the repeated occurrences of people offering Larry a belated "Happy New Year".

I know it might be akin to heresy to say this as well, but Leon ran his course a long time ago. There is no way the Larry of earlier seasons would hang around with him period, let alone for a sustained length of time - and his presence seems to serve little else other than being a cheap punchline.

I will try to persevere anyways. I just think the show would've been better off calling it a day after Season 7.

While I love this show, I have to agree that it's become a parody of itself.

I still never miss an episode though.