Larry David Makes a Call [Curb Your Enthusiasm]

Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American comedy television series starring Seinfeld writer, co-creator, and executive producer Larry David as himself. It is produced and broadcast by HBO.

The series was inspired by a 1999 one-hour mockumentary titled Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm, which David and HBO originally envisioned as a one-time project.

The series has been nominated for thirty Emmy Awards and won the 2002 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series -- Musical or Comedy.

Seven seasons consisting of 70 episodes have aired, with the seventh season ending on November 22, 2009. In April 2010, HBO officially announced that the series will return for a ten-episode eighth season, scheduled to air in 2011, making it HBO's longest-running scripted series

The series stars Larry David as an extreme version of himself, accompanied by fictional re-creations of his 'real friends', usually played by themselves. Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Wanda Sykes, and Richard Lewis all have recurring roles as characters based upon themselves.

The show is set and filmed in various affluent Westside communities of (and occasionally the downtown area of) the City of Los Angeles, California, as well as the adjacent incorporated cities of Beverly Hills, Culver City and Santa Monica, California. Larry David's actual place of residence was, and may still be (since his divorce from his wife Laurie), in the Pacific Palisades area of the Westside. During the run of the series, filming has been staged in various rented single-family residences around the Westside.

Although Larry maintains an office, he is rarely shown working, other than in season four which centered on his being cast as Max Bialystock in the Mel Brooks play The Producers, and in Season 7 writing the Seinfeld reunion. Most of the show revolves around Larry's interactions with his friends and neighbors, with Larry often at odds with the other characters (usually to Larry's detriment). Despite this, the characters do not seem to harbor ill-feelings towards each other for any extended period and the cast has stayed stable throughout the show.

Larry David has explained the meaning of the show's title in TV interviews. It reflects his perception that many people seem to live their lives projecting false enthusiasm, which he believes is used to imply that "they are better than you." This conflicts with his style, which is very droll and dry. In an ideal world, he would like to be able to urge such people to curb their enthusiasm. The title also urges to the audience not to expect too much from the show; at the time of the premiere, Larry David wanted to lower expectations after the phenomenal success of Seinfeld

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