Larry Intervenes in a 'Chat and Cut' on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' (VIDEO)

Crying Woman Keeps Larry From His Ice Cream on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'

by Nick Zaino
from: http://www.aoltv.com/

What Would 'Seinfeld' Be Like If It Came Back Today?

By: Mike Ryan
From: http://www.popeater.com/2009

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In the seventh season finale of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' the plot intermittently focuses on the taping of the 'Seinfeld' reunion show. This got us to wondering: What if 'Seinfeld' actually came back on the air with new episodes? (Jerry Seinfeld has made it pretty clear that this will not happen.) But what if it did? Having said that (ahem), what has happened to these characters over the last 11 years? Assuming the events that happened to the 'Seinfeld' characters within the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' episode is in fact canon, we collected all the information contained within the table read, rehearsals and the filmed episode to bring us up to date on where the seven characters featured stand in 2009 (in alphabetical order):

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Kenny Bania:

Is out of work due to the bad economy. Though, as it's pointed out by Jerry Seinfeld, he never worked that often in a good economy. Seems pleased by this observation.

Elaine Benes:

Has a daughter, Isabelle, with Jerry Seinfeld, though, the child is unaware that Jerry is the father as he donated sperm and was not a part of her upbringing. Elaine wants Isabelle to know the truth about Jerry; Elaine feels Isabelle needs a father figure in her life. Jerry is hesitant about this idea and doesn't even like the idea of being called "Uncle Jerry." He feels Superman grew up just fine without knowing who his father was. Elaine, to Jerry's surprise, knows that Superman at least had the crystals that explained his past. Isabelle would not have this same luxury. Elaine feels Jerry should replace Isabelle's Judy doll he ruined by mistakenly giving it a haircut. Eventually Isabelle is told the truth about Jerry as she passes along a message to "thank daddy" for the new doll she received. Elaine has also become a "Blackberry Person," to the point that Jerry often becomes annoyed with her constant usage.

Estelle Costanza:

Has moved from Queens, NY to Florida. It is unclear if she is still married to Frank Costanza. Her son, George, was going to buy her a new house but never got a chance before he lost millions in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. The news of George getting back together with his ex-wife may kill her.

George Costanza:

In the 11 years since we last saw George Costanza, he had become a multi-millionaire due to his invention of the iToilet -- an application for the iPhone that "leads you via GPS to the nearest acceptable toilet wherever you are in the world" -- but lost his fortune to Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme and his divorce from wife Amanda. Because of his financial troubles, George now lives with his friend Jerry Seinfeld. He had assumed Amanda lost her half of the fortune, too, but, she didn't trust Madoff because of the way he had his collar flipped on his quilted jacket so she pulled out her half of the money before the Ponzi scheme collapsed. George, now realizing his ex-wife has saved half of his money, tries to court her back -- going as far to have Kramer stage a fake mugging so George could intervene and be labeled a hero. Kramer eventually decides against doing this after Jerry talked him out of it. Amanda is open to George's advances but wants him to sign a prenuptial agreement. Effectively, as Jerry Seinfeld points out, preventing George from getting the money that was his to begin with. Also now has a love/hate relationship with Cuban food and sees no problem with blowing his nose into cloth napkins at restaurants.

Cosmo Kramer:

Still, after at least 20 years, lives at 129 West 81st Street, apartment 5B (minus one year for jail time in 1998-1999). He still has unabated access to Jerry Seinfeld's apartment across the hall in 5A; entering unannounced as he pleases. Kramer fancies himself a great babysitter and seems to have had his feeling hurt by Elaine Benes for not asking him to look after her daughter. Admits he does not condescend to children. Kramer has gotten into the habit of hiring prostitutes for the sole reason of riding with him so he has access to carpool lanes on the way to Yankee Stadium -- something that seems quite eccentric considering the 81st street B train subway station, with a direct route to Yankee Stadium, is only an avenue and a half from his apartment. He admitted he offered his sperm to Elaine Benes when she needed a donation, it seems clear she refused. Kramer has become obsessed with everything to do with convicted Ponzi scheme operator Bernie Madoff; even studying Madoff's office layout that was featured in the newspaper (Kramer may be the one responsible for single handedly keeping the newspaper industry alive). Also has become a fan of the television show, Prison Lock Down.

Newman:

Appears to still live at 129 West 81st Street, Apartment 5E. Still has a disdain for his neighbor, Jerry Seinfeld, but still shows up at Jerry's apartment despite this fact. Has grown facial hair on his chin and has lost some weight. Finds George Costanza's iToilet application "anything but acceptable."

Jerry Seinfeld:

Still resides at 129 West 81st Street, apartment 5A; which officially means he's lived in the same apartment for the last 20 years (minus one year for jail time in 1998-1999). At some point in the last 11 years he had his kitchen cabinets painted green and has a new steel refrigerator. Over the last few years Jerry has upgraded to an iPod controlled music system, a flat screen television with an extensive DVD collection and a flat screen desktop computer. Still enjoys a meal at Monk's Diner; a brisk 31 block (a mile and a half) walk from his residence. Jerry now has a daughter with Elaine Benes through sperm donation, though, his child is not aware of this and has been told to refer to Jerry as "Uncle Jerry," something Jerry is not comfortable with. Jerry makes it clear he doesn't want his daughter to know he's the father, something Elaine wants as she feels Isabelle needs a father figure in her life. When babysitting his daughter for Elaine, he mistakenly cut the hair of her Judy doll, a doll Elaine feels Jerry should now replace. Eventually his daughter is told the truth that Jerry is her father when she asks Elaine to "thank daddy" for the new doll. Jerry still often brings up Superman in casual conversations. Finds it disgusting for anyone to blow their nose in a cloth napkin at a restaurant; sneezes are acceptable. Still despises his neighbor in 5E, Newman.

Curb Your Enthusiasm Dealing With The Midrift: Season 7 Episode 6

Larry and Jerry fuss over who is going to tell their assistant to wear clothes to cover up her unflattering midrift. Naturally, Larry lands the job which only results in her resigning. Larry then discovers the assistant's mother has suicidal tendencies and is forced to persuade her to return to the job. Final scene before the credits roll is PRICELESS!

'Curb' gets highest ratings in five years

'Seinfeld' reunion story line kicked off Sunday

By Nellie Andreeva

"Curb Your Enthusiasm"

Sunday's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episode, which kicked off a story line reuniting "Curb" mastermind and "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David with his "Seinfeld" cohorts, delivered the HBO comedy's best performance in more than five years.

"Curb," featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards, drew 1.6 million viewers in its first airing at 9 p.m. and cumulative 2.6 million when the same-night rerun is factored in.

That is "Curb's" best performance in more than five years, since March 14, 2004.

"Curb's" ratings gain boosted freshman comedy "Bored to Death," which nabbed its largest audience to date, 1.1 million viewers, up 51% from last week. (The total grew to 1.5 for the two Sunday airings of the show combined.)

At 10:30 p.m., "Entourage" ended its sixth season on a high note, drawing 2.5 million viewers, up 21% when compared with last season's finale, and 3 million viewers overall when combined with the 11:45 p.m. re-airing.Cur

Larry David details 'Seinfeld' reunion on 'Curb'

The "Seinfeld" cast reunion on HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" this fall will be an extensive part of the series. The stars of the original NBC series (Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia-Louis Dreyfus, Michael Richards) will appear in five episodes of the HBO comedy -- along with plenty of other familiar faces (hello, Newman).

The "Curb" story has "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David and the original cast agreeing to a series revival and follows the process of re-starting the classic sitcom.

"The context is for years I've been asked about a 'Seinfeld' reunion -- as has Jerry and the other cast members," Larry David said at the "Curb" panel at the Television Critics Association's press tour in Pasadena.

"I would say, 'No, there's no reunion, we would never do that, it's a lame idea' ... but it might be really funny to do that on 'Curb' ... and I kept thinking of how we could pull this off, and Jerry was game ... so we're doing a 'Seinfeld' reunion show. ... We'll see the read-through, parts of rehearsals, the show being filmed ... you won't see the entire [mock 'Seinfeld' episode] ... you'll get an idea of what happened 11 years later [for the characters]."

Asked whether the show will acknowledge Michael Richards' comedy club scandal, David said, "It's possible."

The "Seinfeld" reunion idea will be introduced a couple episodes into the season and will be the show's main arc this season. The season finale might be an hour-long episode.

"It was like getting on a bicycle," David said of writing "Seinfeld" dialog again. "Coming up with the right ideas about what they'd be doing 11 years later ... that took some thought."

David kept silent on what happens in the show to get his alter ego to change his mind about doing the reunion, and kept it unclear whether the reunion on the show would be portrayed as successful or a disaster.

HBO also showed a "Curb" trailer, with clips of, among other things, David angrily trying to open a heavy-plastic sealed electronics packages, and hesitating to rescue a drowning friend at the beach in order to first hide his iPhone from potential theft.

Onstage, however, David was in the best of moods.

"I love 'Curb' Larry, I always hated this Larry," he said, gesturing to himself. "Now they're melding together and, yes, I'm a little happier."

An Extremely Awkward Encounter with Larry David

Over a bowl of soup with another older Jewish man, David discusses the Seinfeld curse ("so annoying"), acting for Woody Allen ("very daunting"), and hitting his peak ("no one wants to see this old man on TV").

By Scott Raab

Andy Friedman

Seinfeld cocreator and Curb Your Enthusiasm auteur Larry David stars in Whatever Works, Woody Allen's new romantic comedy, playing Boris Yellnikoff, a character filled with scorn and obsessed with death. He also has a bad limp. Esquire writer at large Scott Raab profiled David in 2002.

LARRY DAVID: Go. Whaddya got?

SCOTT RAAB: I got a tiny window of time here.

LD: You call this a tiny window? Are you kidding? This is interminable. A tiny window is 20 minutes, a half an hour. Why don't you sit on that chair? Is that easier?

SR: Why not this chair?

LD: You know why? It's a turn of my neck in a bad way.

SR: I was going to ask about the neck. I have a note about the neck.

LD: This is easier, yeah. It's a bad position for the neck.

SR: When I went through my old transcript from 2002, the neck played a huge part.

LD: It's better. It's better. It used to be all day long I was like that, but it's better. Yeah.

SR: You still get regular treatment?

LD: Yeah. Yeah, I do.

SR: So it's like psychotherapy in a way.

LD: How so?

SR: You've got pain, stiffness, all this distress with the neck. So you get treatment and you get treatment, and it ameliorates it a little bit, but still, all these years later...

LD: It does make it better. It makes it more livable.

SR: You see the analogy?

LD: No. I don't. No.

[The publicist asks if David wants a bite to eat. He scans the hotel lounge's menu.]

LD: Here's what I'll have: split-pea soup and white-bean hummus. Is that okay?

PUBLICIST: Whatever you want.

LD: And I don't need the cheesy croutons. And if there's cream in the soup, don't get it.

PUBLICIST: I'll check.

LD: Yeah. No cream or butter in the soup or the hummus.

SR: Is that a lactose thing or a general-health thing?

LD: General health.

SR: So you tolerate lactose.

LD: I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

SR: I heard you didn't want to do the new movie at first. You said no?

LD: I didn't say no. I said, I have to talk to him. I have to let him know that he's potentially destroying his movie, that he could be making a terrible, terrible error. I needed to let him know that I didn't know or think that I was capable of doing this.

SR: Why?

LD: First of all, there were some very daunting things in the script — huge monologues, some dramatic stuff.

SR: How long did you work on the limp?

LD: When I got on the set.

SR: It wasn't hard, limping that way?

LD: No. Anybody could do it. It required no skill whatsoever.

SR: Did you call on your own reserve of experience to play such a bastard?

LD: I wasn't really calling on a reserve. It wasn't a reserve like I'm some kind of Method actor. Let's not get the wrong impression here. It's not that complicated, really.

SR: Did Woody have to give you a lot of direction?

LD: Not a lot of direction, but he directed me when something wasn't to his liking. He would come up and go, "No, you're being too nice to her. Don't be so nice." He didn't want me to be too nice.

SR: You did good. And you were quite touching in the scene in which Evan Rachel Wood's character breaks up with Boris.

LD: I've had some experience in this arena. So it wasn't foreign to me to have a woman say she doesn't want to see me anymore.

SR: You're a single guy now?

LD: I'm a single guy, yeah.

SR: Is that going okay?

LD: Yeah. More than okay. Better than okay.

SR: You've got a few things going for you.

LD: I would think.

SR: Still driving the Prius?

LD: I'm still driving a Prius, yeah. I was thinking about this Tesla.

SR: I just saw one at an auto show.

LD: The sedan — did you see the sedan? The sedan is, you know, four doors.

SR: Awesome. And electric.

LD: I know. I'm thinking about that.

SR: They're pricey.

LD: Yeah, I know. I know they're pricey. Yes. Well, rich prick, you know. Rich prick that I am.

[The room-service waiter and the publicist arrive.]

Waiter: The plate is very hot. Please don't touch the plate.

PUBLICIST: Larry, they don't make pea soup anymore. I got you the tomato.

LD: Is there cream in it?

PUBLICIST: No.

LD: No butter?

PUBLICIST: It's all vegetable-based.

LD: Really?

SR: Go ahead, eat.

LD: This is not a break. Don't take a break. Keep this interview going.

SR: You don't want a break?

LD: No. If you don't mind the crunch sounds.

SR: They'll add texture. So you think you'll get other movie offers?

LD: I don't know.

SR: Have people sent your agent scripts?

LD: No. Not that I'm aware of.

SR: You're 62 now?

LD: One. Sixty-one.

SR: So you haven't really peaked yet.

LD: You know, the show's in high-definition now. So I'm looking at the dailies now and I said to the producer, "Listen, this is crazy. I look like I'm 75 years old. Nobody wants to watch an old man being funny. That's just a fact. No one wants to see this old man on TV."

SR: Can they do some kind of gauzy late-career Joan Crawford thing for you?

LD: No. But that's what I need.

SR: What are you seeing that I'm not seeing? You're tanned, you're fit. You're not wrinkled in a ghastly fashion.

LD: It's different on TV. I'm just making observations. It's just a comment. It's not a big deal. What else you got?

SR: The Seinfeld Curse.

LD: Whaddya mean? Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] has a hit show. She's won an Emmy. It was the most absurd, silliest, stupidest thing to say that there was a curse.

SR: You don't think there was a curse?

LD: Are you crazy? It's so annoying to hear something like that. There was no curse. It's crazy. So there were two TV shows attempted that didn't work? Big deal. How many TV shows work?

SR: I seem to remember Costanza doing Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials.

LD: Well, he's entitled to make a living. But a curse? It's so absurd.

SR: Michael Richards?

LD: Well, he had a show that was taken off, canceled.

SR: Not that. He committed career seppuku.

LD: Well, we don't know that. We're a forgiving people. Don't forget: America forgives. Right?

SR: So no curse.

LD: No. No. That's the most idiotic notion. This is quite a good snack. I'm very happy with it.

SR: What's the garlic content like on the hummus?

LD: Oh, do they put a lot of garlic in the hummus?

SR: It depends on the hummus. Some hummus is very garlicky.

LD: I can't tell. I better stop eating it.

SR: I shouldn't have said anything about garlic.

LD: You ruined the whole thing for me.

SR: What is that?

LD: Breath tonic.

SR: It's called Breath Tonic?

LD: Yeah. That's what it's called — Breath Tonic.

SR: You get it at Ralphs?

LD: It's from a health-food store. Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

SR: Is this something I need to think about?

LD: No. No. But I'm surprised how few people actually think about it.

SR: I do think about it.

LD: Do you? I'm a little obsessed with it, I have to say.

SR: It's dragging a little here, no?

LD: It's draggin' a little bit, yeah.

SR: I can wrap it up.

LD: No.

SR: I want you to be fresh for whatever you're doing next.

LD: I'll be fresh. I'll be fresh.

SR: So Curb's seventh season is coming up. You're starring in a Woody Allen movie. You're here in New York City. You walked the red carpet last night at the Tribeca Film Festival. How does it feel to be Larry David?

LD: A lot better than it used to, I can tell you that. Better than having to walk from First Avenue to the West Side because I couldn't afford to get home at night. Having to eat Chef Boyardee, emptying the pennies in a grocery at three o'clock in the morning to buy Chef Boyardee — it's better than that. I feel good.

SR: The movie's good.

LD: I'm glad you liked it. People think it's gonna be a big thing. I tell 'em, "Eh, it's a movie."

SR: I think it'll do great.

LD: You do? Really?

'Seinfeld' alums guesting on HBO's 'Curb'

Foursome set for several episodes of Larry David series

By Nellie Andreeva

"The Seinfeld" Five are reuniting on Larry David's HBO comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

The four stars of the hit NBC comedy -- Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards -- will appear together, playing themselves, in a multi-episode arc alongside David.

The episodes are part of "Curb's" upcoming seventh season.

David co-created "Seinfeld" with Seinfeld and served as an exec producer on the show, which he left after the seventh season but returned for the season finale. He is credited as one of the strongest creative voices behind one of the biggest shows on television.

Both Louis-Dreyfus and Alexander have done memorable arcs on "Curb," in which David plays a post-"Seinfeld" version of himself as a self-centered, socially inept semi-retired multimillionaire living in Los Angeles.

Ever since "Seinfeld" went off the air in 1998, there have been ramblings about a potential reunion of the show’s cast on NBC.

The fans will get their wish in spades on HBO with David, Seinfeld, Louis-Dreyfus, Alexander and Richards riffing off from an outline from David, the writer behind such memorable "Seinfeld" episodes as "The Contest."

Now, there can’t be anything wrong with that.

The news of the "Seinfeld" reunion was first reported by EW.com.