Larry David - The only SNL story that matters

[@michaelweston2285]

one of my favorite Seinfeld stories is when Jason Alexander suddenly realized what the character George was all about when he had this conversation with Larry about something in the script for his character: "this would never happen to anyone! and if it did, no one would react this way!" "this happened to _me_ . and this is the way i reacted."

[@jackdillon5903]

I believe it was The Contest episode and Jason told Larry nobody would be in such a contest and Larry replied "What are you talking about?! I was in a masturbation contest!". And then...Jason's epiphany.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

Yup, he tells the story a little differently each time but thats basically it. It was the pretend I didnt get fired story and Jason thought it was utterly ridiculous. No one ever told him he was basically an avatar for Larry David.

[@royalsfan]

My friend Nate Herman was a writer for SNL in Winter 1985 and was in the room when this happened. No inaccuracies.

[@faulmannpictures]

Finally someone I can relate to. My whole life I have reacted exactly like Larry to the daily and constant ridiculousnesses of the world and the people in it. He is a great example of how to handle it. With honesty and humor.

[@gordonwood1594]

I am 75 . My entire life I have raged against what i saw as injustices and constantly made myself look like an idiot. Larry David has helped me sleep at nights. Bless him!

[@facerip2222]

@@gordonwood1594 I'm a little younger than you are, but there is an attitude, a disposition, towards the world and the people in it, that I try everyday to adopt. And that disposition is: relaxed and amused. The world is what it is, so I try very hard to treat it all like one big ride that I have very little control over, and I'm just leaning back, watching all the ridiculousness happen. It's been a lifelong process to stay in that head space, and some days I do better than others.

[@TimSmith-v4z]

As they say, laugh at yourself before the world does!

[@12345682900]

One of the best show biz stories you'll ever hear, period.

[@gessie]

Everyone should watch Curb your Enthusiasm. Absolutely brilliant and it aged like fine wine.

[@antant4287]

Seinfeld is far better than Curb.

[@beatsbeercigarettes]

@@antant4287that’s opinion. It depends what you loved most from Seinfeld. George and the Larry years were my favourite part. Curb is my favourite bits of Seinfeld on steroids.

[@jtcmk]

@@antant4287hard disagree. curb is just seinfeld with the absurdity and vulgarity turned up, how can you not love it?

[@iyziejane]

the Curb theme song is the official soundtrack of modern life

[@Grindstaff09]

Cept the final season. Wonder if was intentional

[@barlowetube]

I found this story very relatable. I have lost my temper at work quit and called back in less than 5 mins asking if anyone wanted anything for lunch. It cost me close to $175 but I still Haddad job

[@christianperez7846]

It’s weird how he’s a perfect split between George and Seinfeld. Him and Jerry really did just put their every day lives in to those scripts and characters.

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

He* and Jerry put their lives ...

[@bossfan49]

All of the writers did. Most of the stories were things that happened to them. Festivus, Soup Nazi, "Hellooooo", etc..

[@zacharycunningham1789]

Larry is the Patron Saint of comedy!

[@r.g.carter3908]

man, larry david has given me so much, since the ninties till now. but that was the funniest thing i may have ever heard

[@sirmongrel511]

same thoughts here, this may just cement him as my all time favorite. Cazzie David, If you are reading this Please Marry Me! Fingers crossed this works and Larry becomes my father in-law.

[@kesagatame]

Oh boy, I needed this story. True classic.

[@12Bossfan]

I expected LD to start with "SNL was a battle...when the bullets started flying...some jokes just bombed>>"

[@mooville32]

Never knew Kramer was his neighbor. I love this story!!

[@jackdillon5903]

Either Larry or Jerry said they debated naming the in-show character Kramer because they knew that real-life Kenny Kramer would try to milk it...which is exactly what happened apparently.

[@Chesterton7]

The KP interviews are beautiful.

[@4444colin]

I remember moving out of an almost free rental room mate share house. The landlady was becoming obnoxious and I did the above Larry David thing A month later I moved back in and no one seemed to notice and I carried on . Always thinking of George from Seinfeld. LOL

[@thomasbayer1843]

Great story, it gets better every time that you tell it. - Teddy 🧸

[@teadrinker7098]

Proving once again that truth is stranger than fiction.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

IF you're Larry David

[@spiegeltn]

It really is.

[@VicFix]

Larry was the true brains behind the show Seinfeld. Jerry's other successes relied on his fame, Larry went on to create another successful show. Jerry's latest movie (the Cereal movie) was one of Netflix's biggest flops in the last 3 years, but becaue of his connections that's not a news story like it normally would be. Jerry is an aye whole in real life, and incredibly impressed with himself and how much better he is than everyone else, and before you doubt it, don't rely on what you think from KZbin or comments, but ask ANYONE who works DIRECTLY with or for him.

[@kilgoretrout321]

Look, Jerry absolutely contributed to Seinfeld. Absolutely. Let Larry say otherwise, and l'll believe it. I love Larry's talent and skill, I prefer his post Seinfeld work to Jerry's, but on his own Larry doesn't have a successful showbiz career. And that's not a bad thing, it's just how his life worked out. I mean, so fortuitous he met Jerry, clearly. Our lives have improved immensely because of it, or as much benefit as you can put down to watching shows and videos

[@dorklingduck638]

Comedians in cars getting coffee was pretty successful but I really like that Tim heideker’s series of this came out first

[@antant4287]

Jerry was the optimist and charm man that got Larry a show. They had a symbiotic relationship. Neither would have been anywhere near as big without the other.

[@VicFix]

@@antant4287 *WRONG.* Don't say something unless you know first hand (I do). It's well known that Larry was the creator of Seinfeld. And the main writer. People get confused because it's called Seinfeld and Jerry is in it. It's 66% Larry, 25% Jerry, and then others. And ANYBODY would give Larry a show after he just got done on one of the most popular in history, if Jerry moved to Alaska where there's no service and never came back, Larry would have STILL had his choice of any show he'd want to do. Jerry soaked up the attention, press, and walks around as if he did the show himself. In person he's unbearable. He went from a 17 year old girlfriend (and then others) to a MARRIED WOMAN as a girlfriend. Aye whole is too kind for him.

[@antant4287]

@@VicFix pay attention. Jerry's charm got them Seinfeld. Larry would never have been given a show back then.

[@iancowan3527]

Hearing this as a totally outsider... And thinking... I've seen / heard this... And then my god, I opened comments to see I watched it once already, but now I know the true story ~ and it's stanger than fiction!

[@solmarcurtiss]

I can easily do it without military analogies......starts off story with, I was fortified for the first week.....

[@andybaldman]

I know, right.

[@GrandPrixDecals]

Amazing you’re right 😮 1:29 nice spot 😂

[@russBwright]

Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David were one of- if not the greatest comedy duo in national television production history. Say what you want about them as individuals and their individual bodies of work since Seinfeld, but that show speaks for itself.

[@burrcrank]

1:32 "fortified"? Sounds like a military analogy.

[@Padoinky]

Excellent story

[@mattfoster2021]

I keep hearing David comment (in my head) on the overuse use of "so much". "Thank you - sooo much" "Really? Isn't a simple thank-you sufficient?"

[@DAVIDSARRA]

@@mattfoster2021 love that

[@rickl5596]

O M G Every thing I hear from Larry sounds just like me!!! hahahaha (My wife agrees TOTALLY hah)

[@trendybistro]

Funny how Larry went there the year every guy from that show became known outside that show.

[@carlacorsini7766]

Larry David is my celebrity crush

[@gfraser1000]

Absolutely hysterical!

[@hillbilly4895]

art imitates life and vice versa...love it

[@chrislj2890]

That man is a national treasure.

[@steelman774]

4:20 George Costanza and Kramer in real life!! 🤣😂🤣🥰

[@timadamson3378]

He said he was fortified for the show. Military.

[@bishlap]

as a Larry David fan I have to admit that THIS VIDEO IS LIKE HAVING A TOOTH PULLED...or worse.

[@erjo2567]

Please bring back Down on the Docs! It's been too long!

[@DAVIDSARRA]

@@erjo2567 that's very nice! Chris was working on his hour so the pod has taken a bit of a back seat

[@migueldoliveiracomposer]

I love this so much.

[@CoolCoyote]

ahaha great stuff. genius idea Kramer

[@joinkusbelinkiusthethird]

I've never seen him be this nice lol maybe he's cool

[@infomercialwars]

that was a seinfeld episode lol George pulled that move

[@synchc]

Yeah. Larry David just said he wrote it.

[@00hooper]

Larry’s right. Why work all night on Tuesday when the crux of the show is Wednesday-Saturday rewrites and dress? Question is did he work all night for Seinfeld and Curb? He had writers for the marine biologist monologue that Jason Alexander learned in no time. Jerry said they wrote that at 2:00am the night before

[@CalLadyQED]

I remember that episode of Seinfeld.

[@patandmacmusic]

The “come back and act like nothing happened” reminds me of a time a coworker sent a text to the chain like “It was nice working with y’all I’m out.” He didn’t show up for like three days and then randomly was there like nothing happened. We all kind of ignored him at the morning huddle, but our supervisor pulled him. No idea what they talked about. I actually quit a couple weeks later and found out through the grapevine he got fired not long after 😂

[@mattresbert]

Brilliant ❤

[@artvandelay8030]

Great story. ; )

[@WilliamRChambers]

( kinda crazy true story ) I got fired from a silly pizza restaurant for something I didn’t do , so I just ignored being fired , & came back to work … & it worked ! & I kept working as if nothing happened! lol 😂 ( a little harder to do , because my manager fired me ) & then I just kept coming back & clocking in when he wasn’t there & they kept paying me ( this was in the 90’s when I was a teen ) haha , true story !

[@robcrowe11]

Despite the yelling David's humor is actually deadpan, like this joke.

[@bicivelo]

What a story!!! 😅😅😅

[@Hyperbole77]

I had the exact same thought as soon as he said he was asked what he was working on. Tell him you’re working on a guy who rage quits and then comes back the next day without saying anything. That would’ve gone down in Hollywood comedy legendary history even more than Larry David already is. I’m pretty sure that everybody around that table would have started laughing uproariously - if only as an escape from their feelings of discomfort at having to sit next to the guy who loudly freaked out the night before.

[@jakek1735]

Nah, Larry had the right instinct though. The whole point was for him to come in and act as if nothing happened: if he'd made a joke about what he was doing, then that wouldn't be acting like nothing happened. It would be on-the-nose and cringe at best, and at worst it would come off as pushing his luck way too far by rubbing people's faces in it, like Kevin said. It's way more legendary that he did that, got away with it, then years later wrote it into an episode of Seinfeld, but in the episode George DOESN'T get away with it because it's insane that it actually worked in real life.

[@Hizoll]

I cried. 😂

[@johnrussell501]

1:28 larry rocking the pants tent

[@shaystern2453]

guess you never had wood

[@orionred2489]

i love when a bunch of comedy "insiders" talk about how the sausage is made. That industry is like no other industry. Crap happens like this, and things just keep moving.

[@harringtonvo]

1:32 “fortified” *military analogy

[@The-Dom]

He IS sienfiled and George and Kramer all in one.

[@mikepaulus4766]

You can do that in comedy writing. In construction I don't think that would fly.

[@echopathy]

great talk ~~>

[@Alltime2050]

Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, and Larry David.

[@kurtissjacobs5618]

Larry David talks a lot like Jerry Seinfeld.

[@VoxLesPaul]

I never knew that George was a proxy for Larry David, and Kramer was a proxy for Larry's real life neighbor.

[@pattimaeda6097]

🤦‍♀️

[@FacePaster]

The man interviewing Larry is super familiar. What’s his name?

[@kevinw712]

is this a reupload? because I remember seeing this clip taken out of the whole interview from that KPCS episode on here for years, it was even titled the exact same way, but I can't remember if this was the same youtube channel that was on

[@DAVIDSARRA]

@@kevinw712 yes I was the original uploader of the clip and was 3 watch hours away from having my channel monetized. It was hacked a couple weeks ago and lost all my progress so I figured I'd re-upload the video that nearly got me there. Thank you

[@Otis151]

“Fortified” is a military analogy. He failed lol

[@MartinJefferies-j1d]

After watching some many episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm", none of this story surprises me.

[@KuroNekoExMachina]

If Martin Short was there, Eddie Murphy wasn't (timeline wise).

[@arvydussibonus1712]

Dick Ebersol - If there ever was a man who you’d ask “who did you blow to get your job” it would be him.

[@BenSkyLakewood]

Rarely see anything work on that show. Whu is it still on 50 yrs later

[@SiriusMined]

He's wrong, Rich Hall was on that season.

[@JKiler1]

So did he stay up all night before table reads from then on?

[@LarryG-jo6bf]

What's better, Seinfeld or Curb?

[@mr_melvis]

Ebersol fired Norm. This segment just cements his stupidity...

[@timturner5206]

Ebersole didn't fire Norm. He was long gone by 1998. Lorne Michaels was forced by Don Ohlmeyer to fire Norm.

[@mr_melvis]

@@timturner5206 You are correct - my mistake.

[@skaetur1]

LEGALIZE IT! -Club Dread

[@pallmall3930]

Larry Legend!!

[@willygfromdahood]

Look at the pants tent on that guy. What's his fucking problem?

[@irvingberlin-o8h]

This is a synopsis of every episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" in a nutshell. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIu7i2ScepKbmrc

[@garyv2498]

LOL

[@roryoutdoors5431]

CHAT SHOW!

[@kurtissjacobs5618]

Reading between the lines...maybe the Seinfeld writers didn't have to be very creative, and only had to retell true stories?

[@a34rwl]

Why is that gentleman wearing his hat indoors?

[@charlenemack7040]

Because it’s Wednesday.

[@mattfoster2021]

It's Tuesday here. But, very hot.

[@davidlevy4291]

I know! Those sort of "fashion statements" always tickle me badly for some reason

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

Because it has style as opposed to a ballcap.

[@majorkuntz]

Why does it bother you? Perhaps you should figure that out first.

[@StephNuggs]

Larry was right and SNL still stinks

[@David-iv6je]

Make no mistake: the genius behind Seinfeld was Larry David. He was lead writer and exec producer for Seinfeld. He went on to create a show nearly as successful. What did Seinfeld create after? nothing> All his activities after are mediocre. Larry David was the brains there.

[@woutertron]

I don't think Larry would agree with you.

[@jeffreyphillips7312]

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is pretty damn good

[@David-iv6je]

@@jeffreyphillips7312 Kinda tired and unoriginal. Like popular music, it's hard for old comedians to be that funny: they typically appeal to their generation. or - SHOCKER - maybe it's a matter of taste. But cars is extreme niche.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Larry has stressed on numerous occasions that without Jerry his career doesn't happen. Plus after Seinfeld they were both set for life and if you think about BOTH choose to take it easy in their own way. Curb is an improvised show where Larry sets the premise and guide but doesn't have to write dialogue, Jerry had a young family so spent as much time as possible with them and when he needed to feed his muse he'd do stand up, movies and TV They work well together and apart

[@Smitoons]

And John was better than Paul. So there.

[@R005t3r]

OMFG! Is that Martin Short?

[@tomrennie8447]

SNL is fucking dogshit anyway

[@jpitts15Baby]

It's gotta be me. I must just be missing some obscure comedy gene, 'cause I have never found him funny. Him or Seinfeld, who I guess is just him. I heard once he was a writer/comic on an ABC network version of "Saturday Night" called "Fridays"(I think, catchy and original!) which everyone thought it sucked. It's okay, I'm okay, haven't missed anything... That I can tell...

[@andybaldman]

You aren’t alone.

[@jleonas]

You have no soul.

[@jpitts15Baby]

@@jleonas that's encouraging then, whew!

[@Pepespizzeria1]

First aswell!!!!

[@1971ahtom]

3rd First.

[@stephenlucock8060]

Firster

[@jonathansimkin1341]

first!!!!

[@mito88]

last!!!!

[@jonathansimkin1341]

@@mito88 first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mito88]

@@jonathansimkin1341 I am last!!!!

[@penguin44ca]

Old. Story

[@4SteveKombolis]

Yeah it's about when Larry David was on SNL, were you expecting a current story?

[@keithklassen5320]

​​@@4SteveKombolisListen: if Larry had any pride in his craft, he'd get himself back on SNL, re-quit, and do the whole process over again. We deserve fresh food.