"popularity since its debut. It has been nominated for 38 Primetime Emmy Awards, and Robert B. Weide received an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the episode ""Krazee Eyez Killa"". The show won the 2002 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. After the eighth season concluded in September 2011, ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" went on an indefinite hiatus. The series finally returned for a ninth season in October 2017, while a tenth season is in production as of October 2018. The series stars Larry David as an extreme fictionalized version of himself. Like"
"has an extensive corporate resume as a writer, host and performer, and has also written several DVDs for the corporate market. She has performed improv at various comedy festivals including The Montreal Comedy Festival, The Bass Red Triangle Comedy Tour, The Toyota Comedy Festival, and the Marshalls Women in Comedy Festival. She continues to perform comedy and theater at venues throughout Los Angeles, including The Improv and The Friars Club. She was most recently seen wrestling with Larry David in HBO's ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"". Denny Siegel Denny Siegel is an American actress, comedian, and writer, best known for her role"
"Shelley Berman Sheldon Leonard Berman (February 3, 1925 – September 1, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, writer, teacher, lecturer and poet. In his comedic career, Berman was awarded three gold records and he won the first Grammy Award for a spoken comedy recording in 1959. He played Larry David's father on ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", a role for which he received a 2008 Emmy Award nomination. He taught humor writing at the University of Southern California for more than 20 years. Berman was born in Chicago, the son of Irene (née Marks) and Nathan Berman. He was Jewish. He served"
"has used her celebrity status to help elevate its visibility. Hines serves on the Board of Trustees of United Cerebral Palsy. Hines and her family won $25,000 for UCP on the July 12, 2015 episode of ""Celebrity Family Feud"". In December 2011, Hines began dating activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They announced their engagement late April 2014 and were married on August 2, 2014. Cheryl Hines Cheryl Ruth Hines (born September 21, 1965) is an American actress who played the role of Larry David's wife, Cheryl, on HBO's ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards."
"decade of her career, she was seen, between 2000 and 2005, in the recurring character of Larry David's acerbic mother-in-law on his long-running HBO satirical comedy series, ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"". Julie Payne (actress, born 1946) Julie Kathleen Payne (born September 11, 1946) is an American television, film and stage actress who, in a career lasting over four decades, has specialized primarily in comedy roles as well as voice acting. She was a cast member in three short-lived network sitcoms during 1983–86, and appeared in about twenty feature films and over a hundred episodes of TV series as well as providing"
"David's sitcom ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"". The reunion shows received much media attention, and the episode received strong ratings for the HBO series. In 2009, Louis-Dreyfus was granted the honorary award for Legacy of Laughter at the TV Land Awards. Previous winners had included Lucille Ball and Mike Myers. She was presented with the award by friend Amy Poehler. The following year, Louis-Dreyfus received the 2,407th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 4, 2010, for her remarkable contribution to the broadcast television industry as both an actress and a comedienne. Originally, the star was set with Louis-Dreyfus' name"
"to the ocean. The episode also featured Lucy Davis. Both Gervais and Davis starred together in ""The Office"". Gervais had a cameo role in Simon Pegg's and Jessica Hynes's sitcom ""Spaced"", as Dave, an estate agent who mistakenly placed the advertisement for a property for a couple that turns out to be the premise of the show. In season 8 episode 6 ""The Hero"" of the HBO series ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", Gervais was a guest at Larry David's dinner table. He played a version of himself, an egocentic self-promoting actor that annoyed David's character who was desperate for attention. Gervais"
"Richard Lewis (comedian) Richard Philip Lewis (born June 29, 1947) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He came to prominence in the 1980s as a comedian specializing in self-deprecating humor before turning to acting. He is known for co-starring in the comedy series ""Anything but Love"" (1989–92) and for his recurring and semi-autobiographical role in ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" (2000–present). Richard Lewis was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Englewood, New Jersey, where he graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in 1965. His father worked as a caterer and his mother was an actress. The Lewises are"
"A poster for the film was put up on the set of David's office for the filming of ""Curb Your Enthusiasm's"" pilot episode. David had the poster promptly removed because he got ""sick of looking at it"" after one show. In a later episode, David's character tells his wife to stop lending people the film, and says he doesn't believe a friend who claimed to have enjoyed the movie, stating she was just trying to be polite. Sour Grapes (1998 film) Sour Grapes is a 1998 American comedy film written and directed by Larry David and starring Steven Weber, Craig"
"a Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism. In November 2010 he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new liberal arts college that has adopted as its motto a Latin translation of a phrase (""free speech is life itself"") from an address he gave at Columbia University in 1991 to mark the two-hundredth anniversary of the first amendment to the US Constitution. In 2017, Salman Rushdie appeared as himself in Episode 3 of Season 9 of ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", sharing scenes with Larry David to offer advice on how Larry should deal with the fatwa that has been"
"Cheryl Hines Cheryl Ruth Hines (born September 21, 1965) is an American actress who played the role of Larry David's wife, Cheryl, on HBO's ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards. She also starred as Dallas Royce on the ABC sitcom ""Suburgatory"". In 2009, she made her directorial debut with ""Serious Moonlight"". She is also a poker enthusiast with career winnings totaling $50,000. On August 2, 2014, Hines married Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a member of the Kennedy family. Hines was born in Miami Beach, Florida, a daughter of James and Rosemary Hines. Part of"
"did not play a critical role in her career, he would watch her shows when she began acting. She has had guest appearances on television shows such as ""Swamp Thing"" and ""Unsolved Mysteries"". She also appeared on an episode of the Dating Game in 1996. She was not picked on the episode. Hines began her acting career by doing improvisational comedy at The Groundlings Theater. Among the people she studied with was Lisa Kudrow. She also learned to write comedy sketches, which served her well when working on HBO's ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" as Larry David's fictional wife, Cheryl. The show"
"preview nights and premiere, and utilizes the theatre's stage, lobby, and backstage areas. The theatre features in the opening montage of Woody Allen's ""Manhattan"", his ""love letter"" to New York City. St. James Theatre is also shown in the season 4 finale of ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" when Larry David and David Schwimmer star in the Broadway version of ""The Producers"". There is also a scene on the street in front of the theatre in which Larry David gets into a confrontation with a tourist played by Stephen Colbert. The Theatre is also referenced and used in NBC's ""Smash"" in a"
"a long-overdue library book in ""The Library"". He reprised the role in the May 1998 finale where his character is one of many to testify against Jerry. More recently he has appeared as the crotchety Dr. Morrison, Larry David's physician, on ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" and an equally crotchety neighbor of the Dunphy family on ""Modern Family"". In 2012, he appeared in an episode of Aaron Sorkin's ""The Newsroom"". Hall appeared in a series of humorous Holiday Inn commercials. Philip Baker Hall Philip Reg Baker Hall (born September 10, 1931) is an American actor and comedian. He played the lead roles"
"Tomorrow"". She was a series regular in the short-lived Sci Fi Channel series ""Tremors"", and had a recurring guest role on NBC's ""Scrubs"". Lee made a guest appearance in the first episode of Season Four of HBO's ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", ironically playing an angry Asian woman, who launches a physical and verbal attack on star Larry David after he suggests ""Tang"" is a common Chinese name. Lee was also in the episode ""Animal Pragmatism"" of ""Charmed"" as Tessa, a college student. Lee, the youngest of four daughters, spent her earliest years being raised on a chicken farm by her grandparents"
"was the company's first paid spokesperson. Other AAMCO spokespeople included Robin Williams, Johnny Unitas, Wilt Chamberlain, Louise Lasser, and Claude Akins. The company also used James Brolin whose marriage to Barbra Streisand gained a great deal of exposure not only the actor, but AAMCO through appearances on late night shows such as ""Late Night with David Letterman"" and ""The Tonight Show"". An AAMCO radio commercial was the topic of an episode of ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" where Larry David, unfamiliar with the commercials, mistook the car horn for a real driver honking at him. The ensuing conflict and his coincidental relationship"
"created with a mix of scripted and unscripted material and ""Blue in the Face"" is a 1995 comedy directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster created in part by the improvisations during the filming of ""Smoke"". Some of the best known American film directors who are noted for their use of improvisation in their work with actors are John Cassavetes, Robert Altman, Christopher Guest and Rob Reiner. Improv comedy techniques have also been used in television and stand-up comedy in hit shows such as HBO's television show ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" created by Larry David, the UK Channel 4 and ABC"
"11.9 points 3.3 rebounds 2.7 assists with a .368 FG%. His basketball career was cut short by military service though; when his enlistment was up, he returned to the Pirates but not to the Pistons. Groat was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007. Groat currently serves as a radio color analyst for the Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball games and has been part of Pitt basketball broadcasts with partner Bill Hillgrove since 1979. In the Larry David HBO comedy series, ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" (S2.E5 ""The Thong""), Rob Reiner convinces Larry to participate in a celebrity auction"
"from Alzheimer's Disease along with brain damage. In addition, they apologized to her daughter Nicole Sheindlin for defaming her as having a jail record. Sheindlin and her program appeared on a November 26, 2017 broadcast of ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", presiding over a sketch comedy court case with Larry David as the plaintiff. The pseudo-Judge Judy case took the appearance of an actual case from Sheindlin's program, taking place from the show's courtroom set with trademarked voice-over briefs, theme music and audience response. In 2018 Sheindlin appeared as a guest on ""Norm Macdonald Has a Show"" on Netflix. Sheindlin has authored"
"since been matched by ""Modern Family"". The series holds the record for most total Emmy wins, 37, shattering the record of 29 which had been set by ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"". Frasier is considered the most successful spin-off series in television history, beginning its run one season after ""Cheers"" went off the air, where the character of Frasier Crane had been appearing for nine years. ""Frasier"" ran from 1993 to 2004. In early 2000s, ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" premiered on HBO. The series was created by Larry David, who stars as a semi-fictionalized version of himself following his life after"
"""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" since its sixth season in 2007, playing Leon Black. Smoove got the role of Leon on ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" after his stint on ""SNL."" Although he was at that time based on the east coast, he was in Los Angeles for his friend, music producer Oji Pierce's funeral, so was able to audition for ""Curb."" Smoove wrote a book as his ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" character, Leon, which was released on October 10, 2017. Smoove's film credits include ""With or Without You"", ""Pootie Tang"", ""Mr. Deeds"", ""Date Night"", ""Hall Pass"", ""The Sitter"", ""We Bought a Zoo"", ""The Dictator"","
"a sitcom starring one of the three, despite the conventional wisdom that each person's ""Seinfeld"" popularity should almost guarantee a strong, built-in audience for the actor's new show. Shows specifically cited regarding the ""Seinfeld curse"" are Julia Louis-Dreyfus's ""Watching Ellie"", Jason Alexander's ""Bob Patterson"" and ""Listen Up!"", and Michael Richards' ""The Michael Richards Show"". Larry David said of the curse, ""It's so completely idiotic. It's very hard to have a successful sitcom."" This phenomenon was mentioned throughout the second season of Larry David's HBO program ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"". However, the Emmy award-winning success of Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the CBS sitcom"
"Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist"" (2009), and ""A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned"" (2010). Starting in 2010, Fox played a recurring role in the US drama ""The Good Wife"" as crafty attorney Louis Canning and earned Emmy nominations for three consecutive years. In 2011, Fox was featured as himself in the eighth season of the Larry David vehicle, ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"". David's character (also himself) becomes a temporary resident of the New York City apartment building that Fox resides in and a conflict arises between the two, whereby"
"""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" episode titled ""The Anonymous Donor"", in which Larry David's Pepitone jersey gets lost at the dry cleaners. Larry and Leon Black then go out trying to find who is wearing it. In the episode, ""Mister Softee"" in the eighth season of ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", Larry and Leon attend a baseball autograph signing where Leon says, ""I'm gonna go check out Joe Pepitone up in here"", though Pepitone does not actually appear. Pepitone was first mentioned in the 1987 ""Golden Girls"" episode titled ""Whose Face Is This, Anyway"". In this episode, Blanche tells Dorothy that she cannot possibly"
"Larry David's H.B.O series, ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"". ""Clark: A Gonzomentary"" began as a seven episode bi-weekly webseries syndicated by Alterati.com in 2010, and a 2011 five episode fictional ""behind the scenes"" series which was edited together and serves as the long-form movie version. The two main characters, Clark and J.C. are played by the American actors William Clark and James Curcio, who both had never acted beforehand. Daniel D.W. wrote the characters as an exaggerated parody of themselves, and felt that their inexperience as actors would translate more realistically. Daniel D.W. appears as an alternative version of himself, the maker"
"the rapist Louis Browning on the daytime soap opera ""As the World Turns"" in 2006. In 2011, he appeared as Goldman in French comedy film ""Hollywoo"" with comidienne Florence Foresti. Robert Maschio Robert Maschio (born August 25, 1966) is an American actor. He is known for playing Dr. Todd 'The Todd' Quinlan in the American comedy-drama ""Scrubs"". He graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in 1988. Maschio made guest appearances on various TV shows such as ""Bram & Alice"", and he eventually landed the role of a hypersexual surgeon in Bill Lawrence's sitcom ""Scrubs"", playing the recurring character"
"Dynamite"", on FX's Emmy Award-winning ""Fargo"", Hulu's Golden Globe Award-nominated ""Casual"", the Fox comedy ""New Girl"", and Verizon Go90's sports send-up ""Now We're Talking"". He is a present or past recurring guest star on USA Network's ""Benched"", Showtime's ""House of Lies"", HBO's ""Girls"", ""Childrens Hospital"", ""Blunt Talk"", FX's ""Married"", and ""Trial & Error"". In previous seasons, he played Larry David's smug psychiatrist, Dr. Arthur Thurgood, on ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", tough-guy jurist Judge Alan Karpman on ""The Good Wife"", and played himself in the CBS situation comedy ""The Crazy Ones"" with Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. In 2017, he appeared"
"recovered from it, and scientists who have dedicated their lives to fighting tuberculosis. David stated that his mission is to help overcome the social stigma of TB in order to beat the disease. David was frequently caricatured by comedian Leigh Francis on the British TV comedy show ""Bo' Selecta!""; the show's title itself being a reference to his song ""Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)"". Although many other celebrities lampooned in the series appreciated the jokes and even appeared in the series themselves, David—the series' most prominently mocked target—did not enjoy the attention, remarking that the public were no longer"
"appeared in several episodes, and Jerry Seinfeld made a cameo. In season 7, the cast of ""Seinfeld"", including Michael Richards, returned in a story arc involving David's attempt to organize a ""Seinfeld"" reunion special. On Wednesday, June 2, 2010, the series premiered on the TV Guide Network, making its network television debut. TV Guide Network also produced a series of related discussions with high-profile guest stars, media pundits, and prominent social figures called ""Curb: The Discussion"" debating the moral implications depicted in each episode. David is quoted as saying ""Finally, thanks to the TV Guide Network, I'll get a chance"
"show. The sketch responded by claiming that ABC used Disney's high-profile lawyers to engage NBC in a hostile takeover, gaining the rights to Carvey's ""SNL"" characters, as well as some of the IPs of David Letterman's show on CBS. It then cuts to the Church Lady reading David Letterman's Top Ten List. Carvey reprised the character and sketch when he hosted the show in its 36th season, the Church Lady interviewing ""the Kardashian sisters"", attempting to exorcise ""Snooki"", and notably becoming enraptured and aroused by Justin Bieber before being settled down by God. In 2016, The Church Lady was the"
"Quest"", Disney's ""Recess"" and ""Kim Possible"", Cartoon Network's ""Johnny Bravo"", and Nickelodeon's ""Hey Arnold!"". She appeared in the feature film ""Kalamazoo?"" (2005) and appeared in three episodes of the HBO comedy series ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" as Jodi Funkhouser, the lesbian daughter of a friend of Larry David. Bialik also made guest appearances as a fictionalized version of herself in the series ""Fat Actress"" and made a guest appearance in an episode of ""Saving Grace"". She had a recurring role as the high school guidance counselor in ABC Family's ""The Secret Life of the American Teenager"". In 2009, Bialik was nominated"
"mainly written by Seinfeld, as he (and Larry David in Seasons 1 through 7) rewrote the drafts for each episode. Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 Jerry Seinfeld Jerome Allen Seinfeld ( ; born April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He is known for playing himself in the sitcom ""Seinfeld"", which he created and wrote with Larry David. As a stand-up comedian, Seinfeld specializes in observational comedy; in 2005, Comedy Central named Seinfeld the ""12th Greatest Stand-up Comedian of All Time."" Seinfeld produced, co-wrote and"
"Four's HD output was broadcast on the BBC HD channel before its closure on 26 March 2013. In 2017 BBC Four HD along with CBBC HD and Cbeebies HD launched in Ireland. The first evening's BBC Four programmes were simulcast on BBC Two. BBC Four is notable for first showing Larry David's ""Seinfeld"" follow-up, ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", Armando Iannucci's cutting political satire, ""The Thick of It"", ""The Chaser's War on Everything"", ""Flight of the Conchords"", ""Mad Men"" and Danish thriller ""The Killing"". The channel broadcasts a mixture of art and science documentaries, vintage drama (including many rare black-and-white programmes), and"