Jul 31 2009 First Look at Curb's 'Seinfeld' Pseudo-Reunion

The first shot of Curb Your Enthusiasm's long-awaited Seinfeld reunion been released by the Home Box Office Television Channel. Furthermore, Larry David talked to press about the scenario's inspiration, and how it will play out:

"The context is for years I've been asked about a 'Seinfeld' reunion -- as has Jerry and the other cast members," Larry David said at the "Curb" panel at the Television Critics Association's press tour in Pasadena.

"I would say, 'No, there's no reunion, we would never do that, it's a lame idea' ... but it might be really funny to do that on 'Curb' ... and I kept thinking of how we could pull this off, and Jerry was game ... so we're doing a 'Seinfeld' reunion show. ... We'll see the read-through, parts of rehearsals, the show being filmed ... you won't see the entire [mock 'Seinfeld' episode] ... you'll get an idea of what happened 11 years later [for the characters]."

"It was like getting on a bicycle," David said of writing "Seinfeld" dialog again. "Coming up with the right ideas about what they'd be doing 11 years later ... that took some thought."

How David, or science, plans to explain that Julia Louis-Dreyfus is somehow way hotter now than she was literally 20 years ago remains a mystery.

Mar 6 2009 Seinfeld Cast on the Curb

Well, I'll have to record the next season of Curb Your Enthusiasm in SP mode: there's going to be a Seinfeld reunion!

The Seinfeld cast is making another must-see appearance. EW has learned exclusively that the four stars of NBC's long-running comedy -- Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards -- will be featured in a multiple-episode story arc on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm this fall. The cameos will mark the first time that all four actors have appeared together in a scripted TV show since Seinfeld went off the air nearly 11 years ago. No date has been set for this event, or for Curb's seventh season, which will run for 10 weeks.

Of course, Michael Richards is now largely considered a racist, Seinfeld is a humorless husk of his former self, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander have already done Curb, but come on, it's a Seinfeld reunion. And any Seinfeld reunion that doesn't begin with the reveal that Jerry and Elaine now have a baby named Cosmo should be considered at least a marginal success.

Oct 23 2008 Good News for Home Box Office Comedy

I don't have HBO (I possess nothing that could ever be regared as "premium" anything), but as a fan of DVD sets and criminal downloading, I'm pretty excited by a couple things I read today regarding the cable network's comedy lineup.

1. Variety reports Curb Your Enthusiasm season seven will start shooting in December, with ten new episodes coming next year. Who is Larry David going to provide disaster relief to this season? I can't wait to find out!

2. On Ricky Gervais's blog, he said (possibly joking?) he's started work on another Extras special:

Steve must have seen the thing in the press about me thinking about doing another Extras Special. He's in LA at the moment but the story that went out across America was that, although I would consider it, I thought Steve would take some convincing. Well I got an email today from him saying he's up for it. I started work on it immediately. Does anyone know Al Pacino?

Now where's news of a surprise Arrested Development special so we can hit my favorite-fairly-recent-television-comedy trifecta?

Jul 14 2008 Larry David Bringing Back 'Curb', Is Uncharacteristically Excited

L.D. is officially bringing back Curb Your Enthusiasm for a seventh season on HBO! Another year of laughs that will also fuel my crippling neuroses! In celebration, enjoy a season 5 highlight under the cut. I mean, assuming you're in an environment where you can listen to a minute-long monologue about getting up in someone's asshole.

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