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Posted Tuesday 3/17/20 at 9:52PM EDT
Curb Your Enthusiasm boss compares the HBO comedy to "the comedy marines": "We love hot-button issues"
"We’re kind of the comedy marines — we see danger and we run right towards it!" says Jeff Schaffer of...
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Posted Thursday 3/05/20 at 9:45AM EST
Lil Dicky's FXX comedy Dave is funnier than it has any right to be
"On paper a show about the rise of Lil Dicky, a moderately popular rapper who started his career on YouTube,...
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President Trump tweets a Curb Your Enthusiasm clip of Larry David wearing a "MAGA" hat
The president on Monday night tweeted a profanity-riddled out-of-context clip from Curb's Jan.
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Posted Friday 8/23/19 at 6:54PM EDT
Netflix orders comedy Brew Brothers
The League co-creator Jeff Schaffer and brother Greg Schaffer are behind the eight-episode Brew Brothers, about estranged brothers Wilhelm and...
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Posted Thursday 5/31/18 at 9:13PM EDT
Rapper Lil Dicky's life inspires an FX comedy pilot
The League creator Jeff Schaffer, Kevin Hart and Scooter Braun will produce the comedy pilot about rapper-comedian Dave Burd, about...
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Posted Thursday 3/15/18 at 5:20AM EDT
Larry David is allowing the release of Curb Your Enthusiasm's deleted scenes for the first time
David had vetoed releasing deleted scenes in previous seasons.
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Posted Monday 12/04/17 at 9:35PM EST
Why Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Season 9 finale was its most ambitious episode
“This season finale was probably the most ambitious thing we’ve ever done because we wrote it for somebody who didn’t...
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Posted Thursday 11/30/17 at 6:27AM EST
Curb Your Enthusiasm wrote Lin-Manuel Miranda and Judge Judy into the show before checking in to see if they were available
“You think that the hard part is actually writing the shows, but then you realize that once you've written it,...
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Posted Monday 11/20/17 at 11:08PM EST
This week’s Curb Your Enthusiasm wasn’t intended to remind viewers of Seinfeld
"This one was about proving that Larry had a point,” says executive producer Jeff Schaffer.
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Posted Tuesday 11/14/17 at 6:04AM EST
Larry David had an “effortless connection” with Lauren Graham on Curb Your Enthusiasm
“The very first scene of her story was the first time she was on set, and she had to say...
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Posted Monday 11/06/17 at 10:48PM EST
Why this week's Curb Your Enthusiasm clocked in at 40 minutes
“Usually, the outlines are about 10 pages,” says executive producer Jeff Schaffer.
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Posted Monday 10/30/17 at 9:37PM EDT
It’s a “weird coincidence” Curb Your Enthusiasm's “Thank You For Your Service” episode came out the same weekend as Miles Teller's movie
Miles Teller’s new movie Thank You For Your Service had nothing to do with Larry David’s "Thank You For Your...
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Posted Tuesday 10/24/17 at 4:58AM EDT
Bryan Cranston had said he wanted to be on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and that’s how he wound up as Larry David’s psychiatrist
Cranston’s episode, of course, reunited David and Cranston, who collaborated on Seinfeld.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm: Pretty, pretty boring?
After six years off, Curb Your Enthusiasm has returned with episodes that feel “stale and annoying,” says Michael Starr.
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Posted Monday 10/16/17 at 9:51PM EDT
Steve Bannon calls Larry David a “genius” after hearing he was name-dropped on Curb Your Enthusiasm
The former White House advisor and Breitbart boss, who profits off of Seinfeld reruns, told The Daily Beast he hadn’t...