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A Very Special Thanksgiving Message from Larry David

By Caroline Stanley on

While it’s still too early to say whether this animated “Thanksgiving special” from Larry David will become a classic, it did make us laugh out loud a few times. “What I didn’t get about Thanksgiving was that it was the only day of the year we had turkey,” he explains, in typical Larry David fashion. “If it was so good, then how come we were eating chicken three times a week. What was so special about turkey? I mean it was just a bigger chicken. And why did turkey have stuffing and not chicken? What was stuffing anyway? Was it part of the turkey? And if it was part of the turkey, how come it wasn’t part of the chicken? The whole thing was very confusing.” And so on. Anyway, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to spend Thanksgiving in Brooklyn with the Davids, now you know. Spoiler alert: there’s a lot of screaming. … Read More

Comedy

Awesome Photos of Comedians Hanging Out Together

By Jason Bailey on

From a photo of George Carlin meeting Groucho Marx to a shot of Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David (back when he had hair!), we’ve rounded up 25 pictures of our favorite funny people hanging… Read More

Television

Larry David’s HBO Film Details and New Cast Includes Bill Hader

By Alison Nastasi on

It looks like that Larry David HBO movie we told you about last month has taken shape, now featuring a slew of all-star names. We already knew that it would contain improv elements like the neurotic comedian’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and would be co-directed with Arrested Development and Superbad’s Greg Mottola. Jon Hamm and Michael Keaton were attached to star, as well. Now, Deadline reports that Bill Hader, Kate Hudson, Phillip Baker Hall, Danny McBride, Eva Mendes, Amy Ryan, and Curb favorite JB Smoove will also be starring in the project, Clear History. … Read More

News

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. If you missed seeing The Daily Show last night, there was a hilarious video segment that took a look back at Barack Obama’s first term, and was narrated by none other than Larry David. The major takeaway: “Less bad is better than more bad.” [via Gawker]

2. Here’s your first… Read More

Television

Watch How Larry David Might Have Ended Last Week’s ‘Breaking Bad’

By Judy Berman on

If you watched last week’s episode of Breaking Bad, you’re probably still reeling from its final seconds. And if you haven’t seen it yet — well, probably best not to read any more of this post.

So, now that we’re all up to speed, who knew that Landry from Friday Night Lights had that in him, right? (Er, come to think of it, probably none of us who actually saw all of FNL should be in any way surprised about what went down on Sunday.) In any case, whether it shocked you or not, we’re guessing you didn’t find that Breaking Bad moment particularly funny. But leave it to Larry David, that master of dark comedy, to make you crack a pained smile. One clever YouTuber has edited the episode’s last bits as though they were a parting shot from Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the result — while admittedly simple — is pretty effective. If you’re into laughing about human suffering, we strongly suggest you click through to watch the video. … Read More

Television

HBO Announces ‘Girls’ Return and Larry David Film

By Alison Nastasi on

We miss Curb Your Enthusiasm’s lovable neurotic Larry David, but HBO has officially announced that the network will be producing and airing his new movie — originally set to feature at Fox. There aren’t many details circulating about the comedian’s upcoming project, but “like Curb, will feature improv elements, will be directed by Greg Mottola,… Read More

Television

10 Secretly Athletic TV Characters

By Michelle Rafferty on

In keeping with our intense and very serious coverage of the Olympics, today we’re spotlighting the lesser-known athletes of some of our favorite television shows. While some characters, like Chris Traeger and Schmidt, consider fitness one of their defining attributes, others play more coy, keeping their athletic abilities all but hidden. Click through for our roundup of these “secret” career highlights, which includes everything from Jazz-Kwon-Do and archery to spin class, as well as some names you might recognize, including Betty Draper, Marge Simpson, and Pete Hornberger. Have we overlooked any of your favorite characters’ athletic achievements? Let us know in the comments. … Read More

Comedy

Watch Larry David in Jerry Seinfeld’s New Web Series

By Judy Berman on

What’s the deal with celebrities launching exciting online TV shows this week? Yesterday we caught Joss Whedon hamming it up in Written by a Kid, and in Wednesday’s roundup of web series you should be watching we pointed you to Tom Hanks’ dystopian Electric City. But that’s not all — last… Read More

Television

TV’s All-Time Greatest Writers

By Michelle Rafferty on

If you shut off Girls this past Sunday with a sigh of relief, you’re not alone. Between May and June we’ve all endured an emotionally exhausting line-up of season finales (not to mention penultimate and triumvirate finales), and frankly this week was a nice, quiet reprieve. Sort of. Knowing what’s ahead, it’s been impossible to get too comfortable. New seasons of Breaking Bad and Louie are slowly approaching, we can’t not watch Weeds‘ last season, there’s catching up to do on Bunheads, and of course this Sunday, Sorkin is back. So, in an exercise to get the juices flowing, we’ve decided to round up the writers we believe to be most responsible for putting us in this stressful state of TV addiction, starting with the king of TV confabulation himself. … Read More

Film

Video Essay: “All of Woody’s Surrogates”

By Jason Bailey on

Woody Allen’s flawed but funny new film To Rome with Love opens this Friday, and while it marks his first acting appearance in one of his movies since 2006′s Scoop, he plays the role of a retired father while continuing his tradition of writing his leading man as a “Woody Allen role” — played, in this film, by Jesse Eisenberg. In his early works, Allen would occasionally engage a young actor to play himself as a child, but as he got too old to play the leading man (okay, let’s face it, after he’d gotten a little too old to play the leading man), he began putting younger actors in roles that were still distinctively Woody-esque, and which said actors played as varying degrees of imitation. We’ve assembled a montage of those actors and some of their most Allen-inspired moments; check out our latest video essay after the jump. … Read More