I also really enjoyed Jerry on Curbed. The scenes where he and Larry just banter back and forth are some of the most genuine and funny stuff I’ve seen on TV for a while. What’s interesting is how Jerry takes something petty and bitter that Larry says/has experienced and turns it into something a bit more universal and understandable, and how he can do that in about 2 sentences (I know it’s a scripted show and this makes me seem like I can’t tell fantasy from reality, but it’s also pretty lightly scripted and none of them are good enough actors to really like trick you into thinking they have an emotion they don’t). So, really, the genius of Seinfeld is the interplay between them. Which is why Curbed can be a bit too picayune at times, and why the Seinfelds without Larry as a writer were too too fucking bland.
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Awl commenter "davidwatts" offers the above comment. My only nit is that Curbed is famously improvised, not scripted, and I think that was part of the joy of watching Jerry & Larry interact this season.
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I agree. The best part of the whole Seinfeld reunion storyline on "Curb" was watching the interactions between Jerry and Larry.
Posted by: Jim Ramsey | November 23, 2009 at 01:31 PM