‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ is dead — and so are funny sitcoms
nypost.comfinale of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” by “Seinfeld” creator Larry David, won’t do numbers like those. Not even pretty… pretty… pretty close.But, after 24 years on the air, the finish line for “Curb” feels momentous all the same.
That’s because it’s one of the last comedy series — if not the last — to let us laugh without cumbersome strings attached. The brilliant show, which ran 12 seasons, had no morals, no grand causes and no hug-it-out, heartwarming conclusions.
Unless, or course, you count Bill Buckner successfully catching a baby thrown from a fiery Manhattan apartment. building as heartwarming.With its largely improvised dialogue and personalties so huge they should be Wonders of the World, “Curb” was all about the bit.
Unsparingly so.David, who, like Jerry Seinfeld, played a fictionalized version of himself, was my kind of television hero: a perpetually annoyed Jewish man in Los Angeles who just wanted to play golf and be left the hell alone.And yet, everybody else was hellbent on bothering him.Yes, Larry got into some adventures.
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