Curb Your Enthusiasm is no more. After 12 seasons and nearly 25 years, Larry David’s show about all the things that annoy Larry David concluded with an effective do-over of the much-debated and often maligned Seinfeld finale.
While that 120th episode may not have risen to the greatest of heights, it was still pretty, pretty pret-tay good — the capper to a resurgent season that showed Curb could still do what it does best. That meant accelerating everyday grievances to breakneck speeds and reminding the world how miserable Larry David, the character, really is.
But Larry David, the person, is pretty solid (FTX endorsement aside). When his costars Cheryl Hines and the late, hilarious Richard Lewis stood up to fete him after filming Curb Your Enthusiasm’s final scene, he handled their sentimentality in a very Larry David way.
Phenomenal behind-the-scenes video from the moment “Curb Your Enthusiasm” filmed its final scene with Richard Lewis and Cheryl Hines praising Larry and Larry responding how you’d expect. pic.twitter.com/lucnZFLH4o
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“Larry David has treated me like a god,” Lewis remarked, patting a kinda/sorta uncomfortable David on the arm. “This is the greatest experience of my career, and I love each and every one of you. I’m honored to be working with, arguably, the greatest sitcom writer of the last two centuries.”
“My entire life changed when I met you,” followed Hines. “Larry, I love you.”
David’s response? A bit of a sideways glance, a quick sigh and look across the sound stage, then a quiet exit.
Even to the end, Larry David remained an enemy of sentimentality on set.
