Monday, August 10, 2015

Curb Your Enthusiasm Is Coming Back.


(Source) It looks like a new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm might finally be on the way, with Larry David teasing HBO with a notebook full of ideas for it. HBO president Michael Lombardo recalled how David discussed the show with him at the premiere of his new Broadway play Fish in the Dark a few months back. “[He told me,] ‘Do you know what this is? This is the next season notebook’,” he said at the TCA press tour. It seems after spending time on Broadway David might be ready to return to TV, and there are certainly plenty of foibles in 2015 culture for him to send-up. “I don’t think it’s out of his system,” Lombardo added. “When he has something to say, he will come back. “I certainly see this as a continuing dialogue with him – a long one, but a continuing one.” David has he isn’t done with Curb before. Last year Lombardo asked him if he should “emotionally get Curb out of [his] head,” to which the Seinfeld creator replied: “No, no, no, no, no.”


Words cannot really explain how much I need Curb Your Enthusiasm back in my life.  With as many awful, painfully unfunny movies and television shows out there today, the world needs a healthy dose of Larry David.  It's been about 4 years since the last season of Curb but I never lost hope that the show hadn't ended.  I always felt that when the time was right, Larry would be back.  He put together an HBO movie (Clear History, which is hilarious) that he wrote and starred in, he did his thing on Broadway (Fish in the Dark, which was also great) and now it looks like he's got a notebook full of ideas for a new season of Curb.

There are very few artists in the world, whether it's in movies, music or television that make decisions purely based on creative merit.  Larry David is one of those guys.  He doesn't have to make another season of Curb.  He's got more money than god and he could easily spend the rest of his life playing golf with Obama and watching Yankee games.  So when you hear he's got a boatload of new ideas for another season of Curb, you know he put his heart into it.  Who knows how long it will take for the wheels to be put in motion but this is a great sign for anybody who loves to laugh.


 




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