Curb Your Enthusiasm celebrates 20 years - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 10-15-2020, 04:02 AM

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Larry David's acclaimed HBO comedy premiered on Oct. 15, 2000 with "The Pants Tent" one year after he starred in the HBO mockumentary Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm. Curb is still going strong two decades later, with Season 11 about to begin production. "Celebrities had parodied themselves before on TV – including in HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show, itself an influence on Curb – but David’s sitcom helped popularize the practice, flinging open the floodgates for series like Entourage, Extras and Episodes," says Louis Chilton. "Curb’s auteurist bent and verite style was a precursor to shows like Louie; and there’s more than a little Larry David in Hannah Horvath’s self-righteous social dysfunction in Girls. But Curb remains largely the same as it ever was." Noting that Curb has been more popular than Seinfeld in Britain, Chilton adds: "Seinfeld was frequently billed as the 'show about nothing' – what did that make Curb? The first episode ('The Pants Tent') revolved around the slightest of premises: an argument in which a fold in Larry’s trousers is mistaken for an erection. Subsequent episodes would fixate, like Seinfeld, on the minutiae of everyday life, on the myriad unspoken rules and petty injustices that colour our daily lives. But where Seinfeld became known for its relatability, Curb filtered its observations about modern life through the warped, truculent psyche of Larry himself." ALSO: Curb and Gilmore Girls, which is also celebrating its 20th anniversary this month, share the same executive producer: Gavin Polone.

Chocolate Moose · 10-16-2020, 09:27 AM

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TMC · 10-16-2020, 05:26 PM

When Curb Your Enthusiasm started out, it was rejected for guest roles by Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and Steven Spielberg

These days, Larry David and the writer and executive producer Jeff Schaffer have their pick of guest stars. But that wasn't always the case. Curb, which premiered 20 years ago this week, had trouble booking big-name guest-stars. Schaffer credits actors who play deeply unflattering versions of themselves. . “I was an unreasonable character, I was selfish, egotistical, I wanted to be the center of attention,” recalls Ricky Gervais. “I think the first thing we shot was me showing up (to a party) with my own DVD...The fictional Ricky tried to annoy the fictional Larry."

10-15-2020, 04:02 AM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,393	Curb Your Enthusiasm celebrates 20 years https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-b1013681.html Larry David's acclaimed HBO comedy premiered on Oct. 15, 2000 with "The Pants Tent" one year after he starred in the HBO mockumentary Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm. Curb is still going strong two decades later, with Season 11 about to begin production. "Celebrities had parodied themselves before on TV – including in HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show, itself an influence on Curb – but David’s sitcom helped popularize the practice, flinging open the floodgates for series like Entourage, Extras and Episodes," says Louis Chilton. "Curb’s auteurist bent and verite style was a precursor to shows like Louie; and there’s more than a little Larry David in Hannah Horvath’s self-righteous social dysfunction in Girls. But Curb remains largely the same as it ever was." Noting that Curb has been more popular than Seinfeld in Britain, Chilton adds: "Seinfeld was frequently billed as the 'show about nothing' – what did that make Curb? The first episode ('The Pants Tent') revolved around the slightest of premises: an argument in which a fold in Larry’s trousers is mistaken for an erection. Subsequent episodes would fixate, like Seinfeld, on the minutiae of everyday life, on the myriad unspoken rules and petty injustices that colour our daily lives. But where Seinfeld became known for its relatability, Curb filtered its observations about modern life through the warped, truculent psyche of Larry himself." ALSO: Curb and Gilmore Girls, which is also celebrating its 20th anniversary this month, share the same executive producer: Gavin Polone.

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10-16-2020, 05:26 PM	#3
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,393	When Curb Your Enthusiasm started out, it was rejected for guest roles by Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and Steven Spielberg These days, Larry David and the writer and executive producer Jeff Schaffer have their pick of guest stars. But that wasn't always the case. Curb, which premiered 20 years ago this week, had trouble booking big-name guest-stars. Schaffer credits actors who play deeply unflattering versions of themselves. . “I was an unreasonable character, I was selfish, egotistical, I wanted to be the center of attention,” recalls Ricky Gervais. “I think the first thing we shot was me showing up (to a party) with my own DVD...The fictional Ricky tried to annoy the fictional Larry."