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The Most Essential Richard Lewis Episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm
A salute to “the most pretentious man in the world” and Larry David’s kindred bastard.
David’s longtime real-life friend spent more than 20 years playing a soft caricature of himself as comedian and self-styled grand thespian, given to dilettante art projects and hasty declarations of love to an unending carousel of girlfriends. But they both get over it pretty quickly after they learn that the Sanskrit mantra Larry has lent and tried to take back actually means “Fuck me.” That’s long been the energy these curmudgeons put out into the universe, but hearing themselves invite negativity into their souls with such plain language drives them both bananas. They have it out at a lunch date Larry shows up too late to keep, but take a gentlemanly pause to riff back and forth about how if the noted terrorist’s name was “Osama Ben Laden,” he would sound like a Jewish shirtmaker in Manhattan.
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