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- Each episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm is based on an outline, and no dialogue is ever written.
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Nov 27, 2017 · Jeff Garlin appears on this week’s Good One: A Podcast About Jokes to discuss his improvising style of stand-up and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
- Jesse David Fox
- Contributor
Here’s an excerpt from Curb’s executive producer and director, Bob Weide: “ Early on, outlines were five pages. What happened with Curb is the stories started to get denser with more scenes per episode, and Larry started to put in more detail and so the outlines became seven-eight pages…
Oct 15, 2020 · Each episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm is based on an outline, and no dialogue is ever written. / HBO Curb Your Enthusiasm became a milestone show because of its mostly improvised format.
- Garin Pirnia
- 20 "It's Bedrooms, Bathrooms. I Get it."
- 18 "It's Hard to Talk to A Blind guy. You Have No references."
- 17 "I Can't Assume Dry, I Gotta Assume Wet!"
- 16 "The Man Is Getting seconds!"
- 15 "I'm paying, and I'll See You tomorrow!"
- 12 "The Customer Is Usually A Moron and An A**Hole."
- 10 “Do You Respect Wood?”
- 5 “Don’t Put That Pie Down! Do Not Put That Pie Down!”
- 4 “Eat Lobster! Have Some More Lobster! It’S good.”
- 3 “Are You My Caucasian?”
Season 3, Episode 7, "The Corpse-Sniffing Dog"
While there are a lot of fun interactions on the show to see, the fights between Larry and Susie on Curb Your Enthusiasm are always a highlight.It is hard to imagine that these two still try to be friends after their many blow-ups at each other. It always boils down to a wonderful combination of Larry ruining perfectly fine moments with his eccentricities and Susie having a very short fuse. One perfect example comes in season 3 when Susie and Jeff move into a new house. Larry is very complime...
Season 4, Episode 2, "Ben's Birthday Party"
While there have been a lot of conversations recently about television comedies having to play it safe in the current culture, Curb Your Enthusiasm defied that theory for 12 seasons. The show was not meanspirited but never shied away from edgy and dark humor.Part of the reason it did this so well was because it established the character of Larry David in the show as a self-centered and misguided person who said such things without any concern for who he might offend. The show did not want the...
Season 4, Episode 2, "Ben's Birthday Party"
Curb Your Enthusiasm's roster of guest stars over the years has been incredibly impressive with so many actors and celebrities fitting perfectly into the improvisational style of the show. From Michael J. Fox to Martin Scorsese, there have also been a number of stars who have appeared as themselves. It is especially fun seeing these famous people getting roped into petty squabbles with Larry over his social issues. During the fan-favorite storyline of Larry performing in the musicalThe Produc...
Season 9, Episode 8, "Never Wait For Seconds!"
While Seinfeld stood out in the world of sitcoms for being willing to let the main characters be unlikeable,Curb Your Enthusiasm took it even further.Nearly every episode strove to make Larry a more self-centered, cranky, and annoying person, which only made it funnier. However, there were rare times when Larry would use his obsession with social norms to do good and to actually help other people. In one memorable moment, Larry and others are in a long buffet line when a man cuts to the front...
Season 10, Episode 3, "Artificial Fruit"
The contentious friendship between Larry David and Richard Lewis is one of Curb Your Enthusiasm's highlights, and is strengthened by the real-life friendship between these two comedians. It is likely that their dynamic in real life is different than on the show, but these small moments give an insight into how they talk to each other. While trying to figure out who will pay for lunch the next day in season 10, an argument breaks out between them. This eventually prompts Larry to exit the hous...
Season 6, Episode 3, "The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial"
One of the best aspects of the show is watching Larry give his own blunt and assertive take on many social norms. Anyone who has worked a service industry job knows of the famous expression, "The customer is always right." This infuriates workers to no end as they have to deal with the worst humanity has to offer. At least they can take comfort in knowing Larry David is in their corner. While waiting in line for ice cream, Larry realizes that the customer in front of him is abusing the free s...
Season 7, Episode 10 "Seinfeld"
One of the most beloved storylines in the series is Curb Your Enthusiasm's Seinfeld reunion arc in season 7. Not only did it allow for the cast of the beloved to get back together, but it also fit into the style of Curb Your Enthusiasm. This meant that, even with his famous friends and collaborators, Larry could get into awkward situations. Larry was blamed for a ring stain on Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ coffee table that he didn’t leave there, and he became determined to solve the case. For the res...
Season 7, Episode 5, "Denise Handicap"
Curb has a great way of escalating little real-life incidents to their natural extreme by not calling “cut.” Because the cameras keep rolling and the actors keep improvising, Larry and Ted Danson have the chance to escalate a guy offering another guy a piece of pie into a screaming match. Larry doesn’t want the piece of pie that Ted has bought him, and Ted is determined to get him to eat it. Ted Danson's role on Curb Your Enthusiasm has always been a highlight with the likable actor gradually...
Season 2, Episode 9, "The Baptism"
Curb Your Enthusiasm has been known to touch on controversial subject matter from time to time.However, it is never very offensive because it always comes from the point of view of this deeply flawed protagonist. This includes some conversations about religion which is always a tricky subject. Larry thinks that the problem with Christians is that they’re not just content to worship Christ, but want everyone in the world to do it as well. Larry decides to liken it to his love of lobster but in...
Season 3, Episode 8, “Krazee-Eyez Killa”
The clash of personalities that arises from an old Jewish white guy hanging out with a streetwise Black man has resulted in comic gold from the pairing of Larry and fan-favorite character Leon. Years before J.B. Smoove’s Leon was introduced, Larry’s one-off friendship with the rapper Krazee Eyez Killalaid the groundwork. When Krazee Eyez did him a solid, Larry decided to flip the slang on him and say, “Are you my Caucasian?” prompting Krazee Eyez to laugh and say, “I’m your f***in’ Caucasian!...
- Ben Sherlock
Feb 1, 2024 · The magic of Curb Your Enthusiasm is that there’s no script. Instead, David and the creative team put together a brief outline (about seven pages or so) in which they lay out the main plot points of the episode rather than write jokes or dialogue.
- Nicholas Derenzo
Feb 5, 2024 · The cast of Curb Your Enthusiasm improvised their dialogue, but the major plot points and gags were scripted. Richard Lewis and Larry David have a real-life dynamic similar to their characters on the show.
As with Seinfeld, which David co-created, the humor of Curb Your Enthusiasm often revolves around the minutiae of everyday social life. Each episode's plot and subplot is established in an outline written by David, and the actors largely improvise the dialogue, [4] a technique known as retroscripting.
