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This article was published on February 6, 2024.Curb Your Enthusiasmhas since received fournominations for the 2024 Emmy Awards.
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Curb Your Enthusiasmhas been on television for more than 23 years.
There have been some gaps in that timeline, including a six-year pause between 2011 and 2017.
This sounds false, but its true: WhenCurbdebuted, Bill Clinton still occupied the Oval Office.
(That was in October 2000.)
This might be weirdly reassuring, except thatCurband David are both too consistently prickly to ever be reassuring.
Who do you think you are, trying to hug me?
There is one thing Larry David is never going to do, and thats comfort anybody.
None of that has changed in season 12.
The underlying message: Even someone as thoughtless as Larry is incapable of being as cruel as this legislation.
These callbacks dont seem purposeful or deliberately meta.
Other creative choices seem more aggressively out-of-touch.
But then there are moments when the show is just as hilarious as its been at its best.
you cant stifle a laugh.
Thats because Essman is such a gifted yeller.
Seriously, if there were an Olympics of Yelling, she would win a gold medal in every event.
The same rules apply when Larry gets added to a text chain after an acquaintance has a stroke.
Be the reason someone smiles today, he says, reading yet another nice meme shared on the thread.
Oh, fuck you!
Text-chain comedy does not sound promising as a concept, but Larry screaming at memes thats gold, Jerry.
ButCurb Your Enthusiasmknows how galling Larry is.
I have seen nine of this seasons episodes, but not the finale.
This isCurb Your Enthusiasm.
No one learns anything here, least of all Larry.
