Curb your Enthusiasm

Ah Larry David. You can do little to nothing wrong as a writer and little to nothing right as a character. The thinking man's everyman, Larry blunders from one faux pas to the next, avoiding his 'stop and chats', overusing his 'human lie detector' where he stares into his suspects eyes like a demented gibbon and putting his foot into it at every opportunity. It is comedy as farce but great farce. Nothing is too petty to fall below Larry's radar; you invented the Cobb Salad? Oh yeah, really? Prove it! Got a tip off about a terrorist attrocity in LA and you have a choice; stay with your wife or leave the city? A no brainer; head for the hills! The irony of course is that Larry is in real life a liberal benefactor and all-round good egg Democrat. He is also a hell of a lot much funnier than his erstwhile side-kick Jerry Seinfeld. 'Curb' is wonderfully quotable and laugh out loud hilarious. As Wilde said about the death scene of Little Nell, only one with a heart of stone would fail to laugh at this. Comedy as it should be and life as it is; superb stuff.