The series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm, titled 'No Lessons Learned', pays homage to the polarizing finale of Seinfeld and puts Larry David's character on trial for his misanthropy.
Those words may very well be inscribed on Larry David ’s tombstone one day. In the meantime, they’re a testament to the Curb Your Enthusiasm creator’s comedic sensibility, as articulated by David’s longtime collaborator Jeff Schaffer. They also explain David and Schaffer’s approach to Curb’s series finale , which aired Sunday night on HBO.
Once David came up with that line, Schaffer says, they had a light bulb moment: “What if we took that and literally did the meta joke? We keep telling everybody that Larry’s never learned a lesson, and there he goes, doing the Seinfeld finale over again.” The mere thought is so absurd that Schaffer can’t recount it without laughing. Even so, he and David wanted to improve upon the Seinfeld finale formula, rather than simply aping it.
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