Spite Your Enthusiasm.
10 Episodes. Starring: Larry David, Jeff Garlin, J.B Smoove, Susie Essman, Richard Lewis, Cheryl Hines & Ted Danson. Creator: Larry David.
Snapping a selfie stick over his knee like Kevin Costner's caddied golf clubs in 'Tin Cup'. Knocking over a row of electric powered scooters like Johnny Knoxville's 'Bad Grandpa' did all those Hell's Angels' Harleys as he walks down the street. And this is just one block of the first few minutes of the first episode to start Season 10 of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'. Heeeere's Larry. Back like he doesn't want a house tour. Prettyyyyyyyy, Prettyyyyyyyy good. The theatre of improv has never been this inspired for our age of ignorance. This man wasn't a shaker before Corona. And how about wearing a MAGA hat just so people would just leave him alone? And Trump in turn tweeting (who would of thought it?!) thanks for the support. Jokes on you Donald. Only a quack would think the SNL 'Bern Your Enthusiasm' Sanders lookalike would support you. No one is safe now the Hollywood star of David is back. Even his best friend and unfortunate with a five o'clock shadow slapped, grubby face Harvey Weinstein lookalike, Jeff Garlin. We're not in the safe, sofa sitcom setting of the 'Goldberg's' now as Larry David makes your enthusiasm curbed again. Let's 'Frolic' to televisions most iconic theme (which I actually purchased on iTunes back on the day. Best 79 cents I ever spent for playing on my phone to soundtrack people's real life gaffs in real time), especially like a meme in its use to perfectly send up real life social situations for your own "produced by Larry Charles" awkward moment. And at this bum, bum, bum point (now THAT'S an awkward sentence. Cue the music) if you haven't already please YouTube the alternative ending for the Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman movie 'Se7en'...oh, you didn't know?
'Curb' is perfectly adept at finding the absurbity in the underlining, simmering aggression of our inept social constructs. Making it the best commentary since you bothered to watch the same movie again on DVD with your favourite star talking all over it like an in 'Anchorman' Ron Burgundy character, Will Ferrell. Remember between likes and streams when you had the time to do that s###? Well now you do in quarantine...and we can't wait for what we're sure will be that episode in season 11...there's a life on the line Purell hand sanitizer moment in the finale that is pure timing...like the nature of true comedy. One that everyone's getting in on the act. With some classic celebrity cameos added to the canon of Bryan Cranston's, Mel Brooks', Xena Warrior Princesses and even a Thor. All for and in spite of a season setting even bigger than the Broadway production of Mel Brooks 'The Producers' with Ben Stiller/David Schwimmer and the Fatwa out on L.D. last season that brought together everyone and all of his greatest hits like the clomping of Michael J. Fox. Now who could forget those violins like a recurring tickling of the ribs, Vince Vaughn, his always perfect, 'Wedding Crashers' co-star Isla Fisher, a hilarious sending up Timothy Olyphant like Coldplay's Chris Martin and probably the best of the best in 'Mad Men's' Jon Hamm...or is that Larry David?! But no one tops the principal cast like best friend and Netflix's 'Our Man In Chicago', Jeff Garlin. Just hilarious. Or the "Moana" Lisa perfect portrait of his explicit wife Susie Essman. Just incredible...to the 'Sweet Sounds Of Susie' soundtrack of soundbites you can now Spotify stream too for your own disturbing the peace displeasure. But it's the oh snap (your selfie stick) of J.B. Smoove who is one scene stealing mother###### that brings the ruckus, with everything he says being as quotable as the fact that even his movements and mannerisms are as funny and happy as Larry's. Even with David's classic back and forth with fellow Brookyn boy turned comedic legend, Richard Lewis, arguing over who gets to a restaurant first more than if their sweaters are 100% cashmere, trust me...what is my word not good enough for you? And if you thought that was bad, imagine having to deal with your ex-wife (an always amazing Cheryl Hines) dating 'The Good Place' of Ted Danson of all people...you know 'Becker'?! Yeah Cheers for that. But if only we could get the dearly, departed, late legend Bob Einstein back. There was no one like him. Although improv king Vince Vaughn on this king of improvisation comedy that's so sharp we keep forgetting the script may as well be on the back of a napkin incident and Sonny and Cher's son Chaz Bono knocking things over after the shower like a great sport with "you know what" filling in as members of the Funkhouser family.
PSA. Here's your public service announcement. Larry David gargling is one of the funniest things on the planet. Now make sure you gargle some water when you get home too. It's a pretty, pretty good idea. Larry has always known best, whether calling you out for not going in with an ace high, or seeing your dearly departed, beloved aunt next Tuesday. The list goes on like his "meet me by sundown, who are you Gary Cooper" comebacks from the first season to now ten and twenty years later, 100 episodes, century in celebration and social commiseration running. Just like this longtime Laker fan hitting the ground and the road like Jack after stretching out at STAPLES and injuring Shaq like the 'Empire State Of Mind' next to Spike Lee (until the Knicks messed that up), Jay-Z ("I could trip a referee"), or proving faux rapper Krazy Eyez Killa with the realest raps, snap crackle and pop. He's your caucasian and here the 'Seinfeld' creator and GQ, Pottery Barn fashion icon of the year is on the form of his life like finding a hill of beans just to open "one of those vanilla bull### things" coffee store out of spite for classic character actor Saverio Guerra's ('Buffy', 'Blue Streak', 'Bad Boys') Mocha Joe that really is the beans. And just you wait until you see who follows this new trend for the sanitising ahead of his time setter. We couldn't possibly tell you like those people who still think it's alright to go out...me and Larry who I've been told is me in 50 years (more like 5...you seen this hairline and frame?), never liked socializing that much anyway. "Social distancing"? Forget coining it. This man invented it. Who would have thought in this Gen Z going to social media and Instagram war with millennials the real influencer would be a bald a##hole. You're not going to get me to say anything bad about Larry. Okay...okay. And if you don't like it, why don't you write a spite review?! I'll put it up right next to this. Now try and curb THAT enthusiasm. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Further Filming: 'Seinfeld', 'Comedians In Cars Getting (Spite Store) Coffee', 'Becker'.
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