But the last couple episodes, with the "Seinfeld" reunion, were indeed some of the funniest television I've seen this year. And they managed to do something I would have thought impossible: They made me rethink my distaste for Jerry Seinfeld and his eponymous show. What to me was one of the more interesting aspects of "Curb" was the way that it seemed to be Larry David's claim to the legacy of "Seinfeld," i.e., "Everyone thinks the show was all Jerry, but really, look how much of it was me." It's like Keith Richards' first solo record (Talk Is Cheap, 1988), where you're all, "Oh, right, THAT GUY. I knew he was good, but I had no idea how much of the sound came straight from him." What has been absolutely amazing about the end run of this "Curb" season is the way that Jerry Seinfeld, appearing on Larry David's show, has been able to present himself as, yes, just as much the voice of "Seinfeld" as David. The meta is off the charts.
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I was thinking the same thing as "Balk," and I was never a "Seinfeld" fan. I think the "reunion" primarily worked because we didn't get a whole Seinfeld show, just two minutes of conceits and absurd situations (like Jerry being a sperm donor for Elaine) and then two minutes of funny punchlines ("In this case, all of my sympathies lie with the toilet.") It was an episode of Seinfeld condensed into 4 minutes, with a 30 minutes of Larry David (and his ensemblé) as host & narrators.
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