Lawrence Gene David has been an expert at making fun of himself throughout a long career that began in New York comedy clubs in 1974 while studying history in college. Therefore, when in the first episode of the eleventh season of Larry David that aired on HBO on October 24, 2021, his character, an exaggerated version of himself, visited the Netflix offices to propose a delirious program that was immediately Accepted by the platform’s enthralled executives, the comedian, screenwriter, actor and television producer mocked his peculiar position in the world of entertainment.
Co-creator and owner of the rights to Seinfeld, which has allowed him to amass an astonishing fortune estimated at 414 million euros but which could be much greater, nominated 24 times for the Emmys, which he won twice, and three others for the Globe. de Oro, David is today irresistible to studios and platforms, not only because of how successful he has been, but because it is very difficult for him to decide to work.
That is why HBO has had a peculiar agreement with him when deciding when a new season will arrive. It is enough for him to decide to continue for the Warner Bros. Discovery division to give him the green light without questioning time or budgets. That explains why it took a year from the time the one-hour mockumentary special Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm aired on what was then a cable channel in 1999 until the series, which took the same idea, but with a different structure.
The success was immediate and the event was annual, until from the fifth season onwards, everything began to slow down. We had to wait two years for Larry to return, and when the eighth season concluded, the series took a long vacation. He would only return six years later. The tenth concluded at the beginning of the catastrophe of the Covid epidemic. But this time we only had to wait a year and a half to see him again.
Throughout these 24 years, there were many rumors that said that Larry had nothing more to say and his death was even filmed in an alternative ending that should have aired at the end of December 2021, but that was left on the living room floor. assembly.
However, months before the premiere of season 12, HBO announced that this time it’s real. The tenth episode, which can be seen on April 7, will be the last and there will be no turning back. David, who will turn 77 in July, and no longer has any more projects in hand, wrote a statement in December with the characteristic sense of humor that he has expressed in everything he has done: “Now that the series concludes, I will finally have the opportunity to leave behind that version of Larry David and become the person God wanted me to be: the thoughtful, kind and loving human being who took the wrong path by playing this evil character.”
Then, who in each episode has used the strategy of improvising on the set from an idea, to be able to play with the jokes that occur to him spontaneously, added: “so I say goodbye to you, Larry David. I won’t miss your misanthropy. “Those who want to stay in touch with me can find me at Doctors Without Borders.”
As for what we will see in the new episodes, we will have to wait until the premiere. At press time, David, who is the absolute boss of his show, had not allowed the press to see the content in advance.
