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Larry David Works 'Insane' Voting Law Into New Curb
Larry David Works 'Insane'
Voting Law Into New Curb
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Feb 6, 2024 7:21 AM CST

Larry David Works 'Insane' Voting Law Into New Curb

Premiere of final season of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' mocks Georgia rule against water given to voters

(Newser) - We're pretty, pretty, pretty sure you won't want to blow through the following spoilers if you haven't seen this episode yet, so stop here if you're in that category. For everyone else, the premiere of the final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm contained all of the...

It's Another Traumatizing Day in the Life of Elmo

Larry David apologizes after grabbing the muppet's head on 'Today' show

(Newser) - Elmo didn't just have to endure groanings about existential crises this week. He also had to endure Larry David, er, curbing his enthusiasm. Elmo appeared on the Today show Friday to discuss his viral tweet and ran into David, who was there to promote the last season of Curb ...

Cheryl Hines as First Lady? 'Great, Let's Do It'
Cheryl Hines as First Lady?
'Great, Let's Do It'
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Jan 26, 2024 1:20 PM CST

Cheryl Hines as First Lady? 'Great, Let's Do It'

Actor wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. learns to navigate controversy

(Newser) - Twenty-five years ago, Cheryl Hines was largely unknown, working as a bartender and performing with the Groundlings improv troupe. Much has changed since: As the Hollywood Reporter notes in an interview with the 58-year-old, she landed the role of Larry David's TV wife in Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is...

Some Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Sad News for Curb Fans

Season 12 of Larry David show on HBO, Max will be series' last

(Newser) - The good news: Larry David's weekly cringefest, Curb Your Enthusiasm, is coming back for its 12th season on Feb. 4. The bad news, if you enjoy subjecting yourself to such cringe: It's the Emmy-winning series' last, reports USA Today . The 10 episodes will run on HBO and stream...

Reboot? Louis-Dreyfus Can't Explain Seinfeld's 'Secret'

'Elaine' says she hasn't heard about a possible reunion related to the show's 1998 finale

(Newser) - If Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David are indeed cooking up some kind of Seinfeld reboot, they apparently haven't filled in Julia Louis-Dreyfus. "Yeah, I just saw [that news]," the actor who played Elaine tells the Guardian , referring to cryptic comments made by Seinfeld. "And I don'...

Producer Hints at End of Curb Your Enthusiasm

In now-deleted tweet, he said they had filmed 'last episode of the final season

(Newser) - After 12 seasons over more than 22 years, it could soon be time to say goodbye to Curb Your Enthusiasm. In a now-deleted tweet on Tuesday, writer producer Jon Hayman suggested that the upcoming 12th season would be the last, Deadline reports. "Maybe you love the show. Maybe you...

Stars Sued Over Ads for FTX 'Ponzi Scheme'

Class-action filing says celebrities deceptively encouraged investments in failing crypto exchange

(Newser) - The pain felt by investors in FTX might at some point be shared by the celebrities who made ads promoting it. A new class-action lawsuit names a raft of celebrities who promoted the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, saying the deceptive endorsements were designed to prompt "unsophisticated investors" to put their...

HBO Abruptly Pulls Larry David Documentary

'Larry has decided he wants to do it in front of an audience'

(Newser) - In a development some commentators see as life imitating Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO has abruptly pulled a documentary on Larry David—at his request. The two-part documentary The Larry David was supposed to premiere at 9pm Tuesday, but the Curb creator and Seinfeld co-creator apparently wasn't happy with the...

Larry David Ran Into Alan Dershowitz at the Market. It Didn't Go Well

Topic of conversation reportedly involved former President Trump

(Newser) - The only thing missing from this supermarket confrontation was the mournful tuba accompaniment. What Newsweek deems a "pretty, pretty strange scene" took place recently on Martha's Vineyard, and a "Page Six spy" was there to document it all. Per the gossip section of the New York Post...

Larry David Not Happy With Toilet Paper Hoarders

Entertainer sees a Wild West parallel in wide-ranging talk with Maureen Dowd

(Newser) - At a time when Americans are trapped at home, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times checked in with "the world's leading expert on the art of nothing"—none other than Larry David. The 72-year-old creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm had plenty to say on...

MAGA Hat Finds Its Way Onto Curb, to Trump's Delight

Except the president may not have gotten Larry David's joke

(Newser) - It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say President Trump's tweets attract a fair share of attention, but one from this week is especially making headlines, notably because it involves a hit comedy show and a star believed to be a Trump critic. The president's Monday night post...

SNL Roasts Dems' Debate
SNL Skewers Dems' Debate 
Feb 9, 2020 8:07 AM CST

SNL Skewers Dems' Debate

Jason Sudeikis, Larry David, Rachel Dratch return

(Newser) - Saturday Night Live skipped over President Trump's impeachment acquittal and the debacle in Iowa and headed straight for the bright lights of the Democratic debate stage in New Hampshire for its Cold Open. Jason Sudeikis returned as Joe Biden, declaring that "losing Iowa was a real kick in...

Latest SNL Rotten With Cameos
Latest SNL
Rotten With
Cameos 
Nov 24, 2019 7:11 AM CST

Latest SNL Rotten With Cameos

Will Ferrell as guest-host was just the start

(Newser) - No shortage of celebrities romped through Studio 8H on Saturday Night Live's latest episode, beginning with guest-host Will Ferrell returning to his old stomping grounds in an opening monologue with Ryan Reynolds in the audience and Tracy Morgan making an appearance to proclaim "I suckled from (Ferrell's)...

Here's How Much Seinfeld, Larry David Made on Netflix Deal

9 figures each, sources say

(Newser) - Seinfeld is heading to Netflix , and its creators are reportedly a lot richer thanks to the streaming deal. Sources tell the Wrap that Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David will each make nine figures, with one saying they'll get $100 million to $125 million each and another saying the amounts...

SNL Sends Trump, Manafort to Shower

Meanwhile, Larry David makes holocaust jokes

(Newser) - Saturday Night Live covered a lot of ground in its most recent episode, from President Trump and Paul Manafort naked together in the shower to Larry David making ill-received concentration camp jokes. Alec Baldwin kicked off the show as Trump talking to Manafort in the wake of his disastrous week,...

Larry David Reveals Surprise Connection to Bernie Sanders

Sanders is a 'third cousin or something'

(Newser) - Larry David got some pretty ( pretty, pretty, pretty ) good genealogy news recently, NBC News reports. The Seinfeld creator already shared a strange resemblance with Sen. Bernie Sanders—playing him on Saturday Night Live to great acclaim—and now it turns out they have another connection as well. At...

Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good News From HBO

'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is coming back Oct. 1 for its 9th season

(Newser) - Cue up the tuba and mandolin for a big announcement from HBO. Per the Hollywood Reporter , Larry David and the gang—including Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman, and JB Smoove—will be back for the ninth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, a full six years after the eighth season wrapped. The...

Bernie Sanders Asked to Be Endorsed by 'Bernie Sanders'

Email leak shows Clinton and Sanders wanted Larry David endorsement

(Newser) - Among the revelations included in a batch of Clinton campaign emails released Saturday by WikiLeaks: Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sought the endorsement of "Bernie Sanders." Politico reports a week after Larry David first played Sanders on Saturday Night Live last October, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta...

Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good News for Curb Your Enthusiasm Fans

HBO announces the return of Larry David's show about Larry David

(Newser) - Does anyone else hear tubas ? E! News reports Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm is coming back to HBO for a ninth season after a lengthy hiatus. The eighth season of the show aired way back in 2011, and David had shown trepidation about bringing it back. “After...

Larry David Meets 'Bernie Sanderswitzski'

Candidate drops by for cameo on 'Saturday Night Live'

(Newser) - Bernie Sanders came face to face with Larry David on Saturday Night Live, the latest presidential candidate to meet up with the actor who plays him or her on the show. "Bernie Sanderswitzski" found himself aboard a sinking ship as David's 1-percenter character tried to weasel his way...

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