What makes curb your enthusiasm funny

In essence, this episode effectively set the tone for the whole series. This very fact is the groundwork for one of the strangest, funniest episodes of the series. Get me the head! This episode remains a Curb classic for a very simple reason: There's no world where the idea of Larry getting himself caught up in the intricacies of the hip-hop world and race relations isn't hilarious.

Fun fact: Watch the documentary short Long Shot to see how this episode played a huge part in a very real true crime story. However, the finale showed that in a sort of meta gag, Brooks was just using David to tank the show so he could end the nightmare of a production. This gag puts a great twist on an already terrific episode, which finds Larry avoiding more needed rehearsal for the sake of trying to get laid as part of his tenth-anniversary present, notably with cast member Cady Huffman.

A perfect episode for anyone who likes to see David constantly fumbling, yet somehow making it to the end with everything mostly intact. Really, the whole episode rides on David being a ridiculous human being. So angry with his wife and family that he decides to drive himself to a concert in a limo, only to become an actual limo driver as a favor to the actual limo driver. Larry is no stranger to offending the disabled, so it makes sense he proved to have learned nothing when he begins seeing a woman named Denise Anita Barone.

A show in which I think will have the potential to be a more raw version of Seinfeld with a more realistic yet equally funny set. This pilot might have been made to prepare viewers not so familiar to Larry David's honest yet border-lining rude humour, but the pilot almost derailed into a narcissistic reality show.

I hope this will not be the case for the upcoming show. It exposed Larry David to the rest of the world, with a few bits that would later re-surface in the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm", most notably the death in the family bit. It was really funny from beginning to end. It had to be one of the most convincing mockumentaries ever made, through a clever fusion of celebrity cameos, a real solid technical understanding of the "documentary" aesthetics from the slightly "imperfect" composition to occasional on camera interviews , and a pitch-perfect satire.

It was obvious that Larry David was putting on a routine, but the tone of the film was so dead-pan that David seemed distant enough for those kind of neurotic reactions. That, unlike Woody Allen's neurotic New York comic reacting to the LA phonies in "Annie Hall", David's interactions with the people around him were passive-aggressive enough to take place in the actual LA.

Compared to the series, it was more subdued and unpredictable, which made it a little slower and less funny I guess. Not to mention, he was responsible for the setups and payoffs. The script structure is superb. The production quality isn't the greatest, but this show is by far the best on TV. I hope that it will just last a while. LarryLegend28 30 July This is hands down the best comedy on television. I started watching from the beginning and it gets better every week. The two best episodes to date were the one where Larry David accidentally trips Shaq at a Lakers' game and the one where he interrupts the baptism of his future brother in law when he mistakenly thinks he's being drowned.

I am predicting this show wins the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy. CurbYourMetsSein 17 April Just when we thought only "Seinfeld" reruns would make the laughter ensue, "Curb In my opinion,"Curb Who needs therapy when we have "Curb" to make us laugh!?!

He and the entire cast is brilliant plus! Julia, Jason as guest stars are fantastic, too as the chemistry is just so very right on! Best of Luck and keep the laughs coming via Larry and "Curb" - Kudos!!!!! Larry David is a master at comic awkwardness. He is a decent actor too even if he is playing a fictionalized, caricature of himself. New, real-life situations are blown out of proportion in Seinfeld style, and while it would be impossible to recreate that show, this new material from Larry David is quite welcome.

I am very happy that it has now become a series on HBO. Curb Your Enthusiasm is the best comedy on TV! I've talked with Larry and he is as funny as on TV! Watch it! Too bad that the three big networks don't realize that their shows are so bad mostly because they use a cookie cutter method in creating shows! Years ago America pondered the "Seinfeld" philosophy, climaxed, and then closed the book after the closing episode on NBC. Seinfeld was, at times, a good show, and in more ways than one.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is awkward, tense and diabolically funny. Although the show resembles Seinfeld, HBO's Larry Sanders and Woody Allen merchandise, it is impossible not to say that Larry David and the creators have not re-re-re-invented the situation comedy once again. This is the funniest thing that you will ever see on television. You thought Seinfeld was funny??? Think again you fool. Larry David saved his best for last apparently. This series will make you laugh so hard that you will miss part of it because you will have to go to your bedroom and change your underwear because you peed your pants.

It is that funny. It did not disappoint. Naturally, he comes up with a plot to dig her up and return her to her rightful place. Is that how the world works for you? This is why everyone just texts these days. He befriends the sex offender and invites him to a Passover seder; sex crimes, in his mind, are a lesser offense than newspaper theft. After Larry notices that a friend has made a habit of disappearing to the bathroom at the exact moment the check arrives every time they dine together, leaving him to foot the bill, he confronts him.

He begs Ted Danson to switch sandwiches with him, but Ted refuses to budge. After two un-costumed teenagers show up at his door demanding candy, Larry turns them away. Why does everything have to be happy? Her shoddy defense? After Laverne Cox playing herself tells him she has a cold, she introduces Larry onstage to give a speech at a charity event, and when she goes in for a hug, he recoils.

I just say it. Larry makes the mistake of lending Jason Alexander a pen to use during the table read for the Seinfeld reunion, and to his horror, the actor chews on it, sticks it in his ear and generally renders it completely disgusting. That sparks a whole new conflict when Jason buys him a different type of pen than the one he originally borrowed. After F.

Stick yourself in the scrotum? When said tongs accidentally fall on the floor and she puts them back on the table, all hell breaks loose. This is a disgrace! If you know the first thing about Larry, you know that yoga is an activity he seems predisposed to loathe. Lionel Templeton played by Bryan Cranston is no exception. I like to imitate horses.