It’s David, not Donald
No enthusiasm to curb for U.S. president, according to HBO comedy creator
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. Larry David says his irascible, mouthy character on Curb Your Enthusiasm is “about a quarter-inch” away from David himself. But David said he bears no resemblance to another blunt talker, Donald Trump.
“I don’t consider myself a (expletive),” he told a TV critics’ meeting Wednesday, brushing off a reporter’s question about whether Trump represented a rival as David’s HBO comedy returns after a long absence.
Jeff Garlin, who co-stars on the comedy, chimed in.
“Our president is not funny, and Larry’s funny. So I don’t see the competition,” Garlin said. “I think one is completely sad, and one you escape from the horribleness of the sad one.”
Curb Your Enthusiasm, which last aired six years ago, is back for a 10-episode ninth season starting Oct. 1. Besides Garlin, cast members include Cheryl Hines, Susie Essman and J.B. Smoove, with Elizabeth Banks, Bryan Cranston and Lauren Graham among the guest stars.
David was asked why he decided to bring the show back now.
“Why not?” he answered. “I’m not a miss-er, so to speak. I don’t really miss things, people, that much. But I was missing it and I was missing these idiots,” he said of the cast members who joined him to promote the show. “So I thought, what the hell?”
He also tired of people asking him if the show was coming back — but he wouldn’t put to rest questions about whether this would be its last season.
Asked if the TV version of Larry David might eventually become lovable someday, David replied, sarcastically, “No, no he’s not. But fascinating question.”
Would his character eventually have to face everyone he had wronged? That apparent nod to the series-ender of Seinfeld, which David created with Jerry Seinfeld, induced real or feigned irritation.
“I guess that’s a Seinfeld reference? A Seinfeld finale reference? What are you doing? I braved traffic to get here,” David said. “Shame on you.”