New York Post

Cazzie David ‘the next Lena’

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CAZZIE David — the much buzzed-about comedian daughter of Larry David — will soon be following her dad to TV and is being hyped as the “next Lena Dunham.” Sources tell Page Six there’s a bidding war to bring Cazzie’s hip Web series “Eighty-Sixed” to the small screen.

A Hollywood insider says that Hulu and Amazon are interested in developing her series as a TV project, and that there have been meetings with HBO — the home of Larry’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Cazzie, 23, created YouTube series “EightySixe­d” with friend Elisa Kalani, and it has been called a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” for millennial­s. The series streamed with eight episodes last year and outlets such as the Atlantic enthused, “The still under-the-radar series wryly comments on narcissist­ic, social-media-obsessed millennial life by following Cazzie David’s character, Remi, as she recovers from a breakup (hence the title).”

HBO — which is searching for the next female voice of a generation — previously found gold in Web shows it has transforme­d into cable fare, including Issa Rae’s “Insecure” and the pot-dealing comedy “High Maintenanc­e.” The channel has also picked up the Web series “Brown Girls” from Fatimah Asghar and Samantha Bailey.

Comedy Central found its hit “Broad City” on YouTube, and it recently snapped up a pilot from Web comic Franchesca Ramsey. An HBO source said they were not currently “in the mix” for Cazzie while Hulu and Amazon didn’t respond to us.

Cazzie has also made headlines for her relationsh­ip with “Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson, which, millennial style, has been far too intimately and copiously chronicled on Instagram.

Meanwhile — and likely the cause for her relationsh­ip issues with Pete — Cazzie is still happy living with her famously neurotic dad. She wrote in InStyle that, even though Larry isn’t sick or dying, “I’m living at home as long as I can because I want to spend as much time as possible with my dad before he dies.”

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