May I Elaborate?

(Team Coco)

Meet your new favorite motivational guru, said Morgan McNaught in AVClub.com. Actor and comedian J.B. Smoove, best known for playing a confidante to Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm, takes the idea of a series built on daily affirmations and “turns it into highconcept art.” In each 15-minute episode, an entry from a quote-a-day calendar inspires oddball musings by Smoove and his sidekick Miles Grose: An Anaïs Nin aphorism about courage, for example, inspired consideration of the difference between a hero and a hoagie. Seekers of conventional life wisdom need not apply, but “if you are a person who wonders if the sun and moon work at the same factory, May I Elaborate? sees you, and offers a lot of inspiration couched in a gonzo sensibility.” Recent episodes have been “pure Smoove,” said Marc Hershon in NYMag.com. Want to break the ice at parties? Leave your fly open, he advises, because “Nothin’ starts a conversation faster than, ‘Hey, brother, your zipper’s down.’”