On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just to fill this out, I will note that I have also now seen this summer > the first three > > seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm (which I like - better than IGSS, but not > quite as > > good as Seinfeld IMO). I guess I always assumed that George was Larry > David on > > Seinfeld, But I see now there is a lot of David in the Jerry character as > well. > > I've seen interviews of Jason Alexander where he said he was having a hard > time getting a handle on how he should be playing George at first; in the > first 2-3 episodes he was playing him as sort of a Woody Allen nebbish. > Then he was talking to Larry David after a table read early in Season 1 and > made a comment about how he didn't think one of the storylines was > believable...it just wouldn't happen in real life, to which Larry responded > in the now-familiar George Costanza whine: "what are you talking about? > That's *exactly* how it happened to *me*!" Jason said it wasn't until that > very second that he realized that George was based on Larry David. He said > it gave him some clarity on how he should play his character, and he was > doing his best Larry David impression for the rest of the first season, and > he filled out the George Costanza character from that starting point. > > I'm sure with Larry doing a lot of the writing in the first few years, > there's bound to be some of him in the Seinfeld character (if not in all of > the cast), but even Jason acknowledges that his character was the on-screen > version of Larry David >
Right. But I had been aware of the George-David connection since when the show was on the air in first runs. What surprised me as a new viewer of Curb was how much of David is also in the Jerry character. I guess what I really mean is that I probably had been giving most of the credit for how funny Seinfeld was to Jerry Seinfeld and am now realizing that if either one of them deserves more than half the credit it is probably David. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
