David Remnick reviews the series finale of Larry David’s HBO show “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and discusses its place in the canon of Jewish American comedy.
My kids gazed out the window. A long silence set in. Finally, the four-year-old turned to me and said, “Daddy, why is there so much Christmas, not so much Hanukkah?” As I went about drafting an explanation in my head, the seven-year-old answered with absolute assurance: “Hitler.
As an aspiring standup, he hung out with his early summer-camp pal and future castmate, Richard Lewis, and had some modest success in the clubs, but he was too hot-tempered to win anyone over. Sometimes he would get up to the stage, take one look at the audience, and walk off. For a brief period in the eighties, he wrote for “Saturday Night Live.” Then, in 1988, he and Jerry Seinfeld pitched “Seinfeld.” A show about talking, about nothing.
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