Curb Your Enthusiasm

[Breeze]

Anybody watch this show?

Its from Larry David, the creator of Seinfeld. Its pretty much a darker version of Seinfeld, and because HBO aires the show, David can pretty much can do whatever he wants. Its as good as Seinfeld (if you were a fan) probably even better. I love this show! I might pick up the DVD's if they ever release them

Usually comes on 10 pm on Showcase on Sundays.

 

[VERYBADBOY]

The DVD are in stores, at least the first season is that I know of.

Yes, I enjoy his antics as well. He is definately a nut case who says what he thinks and feels and it is sooo hilarious.

VBB

 

[AZN_LOVER]

Actually, season one and two are available on DVD...

I purchased the first but not the second, and it IS funny as hell...

Larry David comes across as a mixture of arrogant, boorish and a "duffus" who can't do anything right at times...

The irony is that I couldn't STAND Seinfeld, but love this

 

[Leaffan1976]

Great show! I want to get it on DVD!

 

[Bubbie]

Fabulous show... I cringe sometimes at the positions he gets himself into...

My favorite episode is from Season 1 I think with the doll where he cuts the hair. Later in the episode he is in the washroom to hide a waterbottle to get it into the theatre and a little girl comes in. "Mommy, there's something hard in that man's pants".

The look on his face and his reaction is hillarious.

Bubbie

 

[the_big_E]

Greatest show on TV right now. Too bad I can only get it through Showcase and therefore see it a few seasons behind. Its just like Seinfeld, but with swearing.

 

[Mao Tse Tongue]

PS: Curb just got renewed for a fifth season.

Personally I think they should have ended it. It's run its course.

 

[banshie]

I know what you mean. The U.S. has come out with quite a few good shows in recent years, but they tend to run them to death, until they are stale. The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Seinfeld etc. etc. Not to mentioned Saturday Night Live, while has been stale for at least 20 years.

Contrast this with the Brits, who leave you gasping for more. Two series of The Office and that's it! Fawlty Towers was 12 episodes.

 

[Mao Tse Tongue]

I know what you mean. The U.S. has come out with quite a few good shows in recent years, but they tend to run them to death, until they are stale. The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Seinfeld etc. etc. Not to mentioned Saturday Night Live, while has been stale for at least 20 years.

Contrast this with the Brits, who leave you gasping for more. Two series of The Office and that's it! Fawlty Towers was 12 episodes.

I'm still trying to find the follow up episodes of The Office, where the BBC returns to see the principals a year later. But I agree with you there. I was dying for more of The Office!

Meanwhile, Six Feet Under is now a crashing bore after being so good in the first season.

 

[jpf]

Larry David was the model for George Costanza on Seinfeld. Curb Your Enthusiasm takes the lying, self-centered character even further. Anyone that can be more neurotic than Richard Lewis is extreme. And extemely funny in my opinion.

 

[lewd]

One of the funniest scenes came from this season (well on Showcase at least) when Larry went down on his wife Cheryl.

The next day he kept having a hacking cough claiming he had a pubic hair stuck in his throat!

 

[dickydoem]

Guess it must just be me, but I've watched the show a few times and never found anything the least bit funny about it. I just find Larry to be whiny and annoying. Seinfeld might have been about nothing, this show is about less than nothing.

 

[Bud Plug]

I must disagree the majority here. I find Larry David's character to be annoying, rather than funny. He's Al Bundy without the knowledge that he's a loser.

Richard Lewis is also extremely unfunny. If you don't believe me, just watch Men in Tights.

 

[Von Wigglestaff]

Why stick to half measures; skip Larry David and go straight to Howard Stern.

Yes Brit TV always leaves you hungry for more. I Claudius is now available on DVD, it's 13 episodes long and they could have easily devoted another 4 episodes to the reign of Nero. It remains the benchmark of what quality TV should be and Derek Jacobi, John Hurt and Patrick Stewart gave performances that they have never equalled.

 

[Mao Tse Tongue]

You actually HAVE to be drunk or high to really find the show funny, because then you're more open to life's absurdities.

I know lots of people find the show unfunny and Larry's character annoying, but I find him hilarious and oddly humane. He's desparately trying to poke funny at all the things that make us hypocrites and social monsters.

He's also truly democratic in that everyone feels his sting. A blind man who's also a whining pain in the ass is funny. That he sets him up with an Arab woman who wears a veil is hysterical.

The Doll episode is perhaps the funniest, creepiest episode of all, where David is really close to offending a lot of people. It's just on the edge of acceptable.

I suspect this season will be a dud. As I said, it's been done.

 

[Bubbie]

I'm still trying to find the follow up episodes of The Office, where the BBC returns to see the principals a year later. But I agree with you there. I was dying for more of The Office!

Meanwhile, Six Feet Under is now a crashing bore after being so good in the first season.

Mao,

PM Me... I have the two parter (together 1.04 Gig) and can either setup a transfer or cut a DVD for you. First is great quality, second, the aspect ratio is a little off (they all look skinnier than they should).

Bubbie

 

[C Dick]

I did not like Curb Your Enthusiasim the first few times I watched it. But I read a review that said they had not either, but that after they stuck with it, they now thought it was the funniest show on TV. So I watched a few more, and now I really like it, you have to know the background on everything, the jokes are all running from one episode to the next. I find that it is painful to watch an episode for a second time, but the first time is very funny. I think my favorite episode was when he attends the publisher (Hugh)'s party, and comments on the publisher's son's penis, and gets the nanny fired and finds her a job.

I agree that Richard Lewis is not at all funny.

I also always hated Seinfeld, I think CYE is very different.

I am enjoying the current season of Six Feet Under, I do not think it has become boring. I thought that Oz had, and that even the Sopranos might be headed that way, but I still like Six Feet Under. I am also looking forward to the third season of The Wire.