Lawrence Gene David was born on July 2,1947 and is an American comedian, writer, actor, and television producer.
41 Facts About Larry David
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Larry David gained further recognition for the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which he created and stars in as a fictionalized version of himself.
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Larry David has written or co-written the story of every episode since its pilot episode in 1999.
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Larry David has been nominated for 27 Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
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Larry David was voted by fellow comedians and comedy insiders as the 23rd greatest comedy star ever in a 2004 British poll to select "The Comedian's Comedian", and received the Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement by the Writers Guild of America in 2010.
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Lawrence Gene Larry David was born on July 2,1947 in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
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Larry David's parents are Rose and Mortimer Julius "Morty" David, a men's clothing manufacturer, and he has an older brother named Ken.
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Larry David's father's side moved from Germany to the US during the 19th century, while David's mother was born into a Polish-Jewish family in Ternopil, now in Ukraine.
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Larry David graduated from Sheepshead Bay High School in 1965.
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Larry David then attended the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was a brother in Tau Epsilon Phi.
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Larry David graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in history.
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Larry David lived in Manhattan Plaza, a federally subsidized housing complex in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, across the hall from Kenny Kramer, the inspiration for the Cosmo Kramer character in Seinfeld.
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From 1980 to 1982, Larry David became a writer and cast member for ABC's Fridays where he worked with Michael Richards.
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Larry David quit his writing job at SNL in the first season, only to show up to work two days later acting as though nothing had happened.
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Larry David can be heard heckling Michael McKean when McKean hosted SNL in 1984, and he can be seen in the sketch "The Run, Throw, and Catch Like a Girl Olympics" when Howard Cosell hosted the season finale in 1985.
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In 1987, Larry David was a writer and performer for Way Off Broadway, a variety talk show on Lifetime hosted by Joy Behar.
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In 1989, Larry David teamed up with comedian Jerry Seinfeld to create a pilot for NBC called The Seinfeld Chronicles, which became the basis for Seinfeld, one of the most successful shows in history, reaching the top of TV Guide list of the 50 greatest TV shows of all time.
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Larry David made occasional uncredited appearances on the show, playing such roles as Frank Costanza's cape-wearing lawyer and the voice of George Steinbrenner.
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Larry David was the primary inspiration for the show's character George Costanza.
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Larry David left Seinfeld on friendly terms after the seventh season but returned to write the series finale in 1998, two years later.
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Larry David continued to provide the voice for the Steinbrenner character.
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Larry David wrote 62 of the episodes of Seinfeld, including 1992's "The Contest", for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award and which TV Guide ranked as episode No 1 on its list of "TV's Top 100 Episodes of All Time".
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Larry David has said that his character in the show, a fictionalized version of himself, is what he would be like in real life if he lacked social awareness and sensitivity.
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The character's numerous and frequent social faux pas, misunderstandings, and ironic coincidences are the basis of much of the show's comedy and have led to the entry into the American pop culture lexicon of the expression "Larry David moment", meaning an inadvertently created socially awkward situation.
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The basis of the show is the events in Larry David's life following the fortune he earned from the Seinfeld series; Larry David, semi-retired, strives to live a fulfilled life.
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Alongside Larry David is his wife Cheryl, his manager and best friend Jeff, and Jeff's wife Susie.
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Larry David has been involved in other films and television series.
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Larry David has appeared in bit roles in Woody Allen's Radio Days and New York Stories, before taking the leading role in Allen's New York-based comedy film Whatever Works alongside Evan Rachel Wood.
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Larry David had a cameo appearance on the HBO series Entourage as a client of Ari Gold, and because his daughters were Hannah Montana fans, Larry David, along with his daughters, guest-starred, as themselves, in the episode "My Best Friend's Boyfriend", in which they were waiting for a table at a fancy restaurant.
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Larry David appeared as a panelist on the NBC series The Marriage Ref and played Sister Mary-Mengele in the 2012 reboot of The Three Stooges.
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Larry David co-wrote and starred in the 2013 HBO television film Clear History.
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Larry David wrote and starred in the Broadway play Fish in the Dark.
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Larry David was among several celebrities who appeared in a commercial for cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Limited that aired on Super Bowl LVI.
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Since 2015, Larry David has made multiple guest appearances portraying 2016 and 2020 United States presidential election candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live; he hosted the show on February 6,2016, with musical guest The 1975 and a cameo from Sanders himself, and on November 4,2017, with musical guest Miley Cyrus.
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On January 8,2020, Larry David joked on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, "I would say, I would beg him to drop out so I don't have to keep flying in from Los Angeles to do SNL," Larry David answered.
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Larry David has named Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Phil Silvers, Abbott and Costello, Jackie Mason, Alan King, Don Rickles and MAD Magazine as influences.
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Larry David was married to Laurie Lennard from 1993 to 2007.
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In 2017, Larry David was introduced to producer Ashley Underwood at a birthday party for Sacha Baron Cohen.
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In 2010, Larry David wrote an article for The New York Times criticizing the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.
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Larry David ended the article with a sarcastic thank you to then-President Barack Obama for approving the tax cut extension.
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Larry David is an avid sports fan, and being a native of New York supports the teams New York Jets, New York Yankees, New York Knicks, and the New York Rangers.