The eighth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm came to a close last night, as Larry's neurosis-spewing tenure in New York wound down in spectacularly inappropriate fashion. David finds himself facing down none other than beloved actor and Parkinson's advocate Michael J. Fox (who was diagnosed with the disease in 1991), and since no cow is too sacred for David, the disease is ripe for the mocking. David draws a Hitler mustache on Fox's father-in-law on the cover of a magazine ("I just like to see what people look like with Hitler mustaches!"), which spurs Fox to retaliate with a suspiciously carbonated bottle of soda... more ›

This NYC-based season of Curb Your Enthusiasm has been taking advantage of the Big Apple's standbys (subways! the High Line!) and last night, the HBO comedy featured Mister Softee. Of course, Larry David has experienced a childhood trauma that haunts him whenever he hears Mister Softee's infectious theme. Here's the curse-heavy video (spoiler, obvs, for those who haven't seen it): more ›

On last night's Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David finally makes his way to New York, only to be thwarted by guest star Ricky Gervais, playing a sniveling Broadway star who threatens to charm Larry's love interest away. David, however, in a rare moment of heroism, manages to one-up the Brit by saving him from a subway mugger using only a loaf of crusty bread from "the oldest Italian pastry shop in America," Veniero's. more ›

Even casual observers of Curb Your Enthusiasm can tell that Larry David belongs in New York. He's a neurotic, crotchety Jew with a persona entirely out of step with sunny LA, and while that's part of what makes it funny, it's finally time for Curb to come to its spiritual home. more ›

After some teasing, new info has finally ben revealed about the upcoming season of the hit HBO comedy of awkward manners, Curb Your Enthusiasm. The new season, which was filmed last summer in NYC and is set to take place here and in L.A., is set to premiere July 10, 2011. And in the video below, you can get a glimpse of some of the upcoming plot lines ("I think I have a scuffle or a fight in every show"), as well as some of the big name guest stars for season 8 of The Wonderful World Of Larry David's Ego: more ›

Curb Your Enthusiasm was filming all over Manhattan last summer, and now the fruits of Larry David's self-centered labors are almost ripe. It's unclear exactly when the eighth season of the HBO series will premiere, but here's a funny teaser trailer that reveals LD's abiding commitment to reducing NYC to ruins. Nobody knows for sure what plot device has brought the Sheepshead Bay native back to his old stomping grounds, but we're sure he'll alienate each of us in due time. This is what he does, and he does it pretty, pretty good. more ›

Directly commenting on Star Magazine's "exclusive" that Al Gore has been having an affair with Larry David's ex-wife for the past two years, Laurie David told the Huffington Post the rumors are "completely untrue. It's a total fabrication. I adore both Al and Tipper. I look at them both as family. And I have happily been in a serious relationship since my divorce." Laurie David, a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council and a co-producer of An Inconvenient Truth, divorced husband Larry David in 2007 amid rumors she was having an affair with a gardener at their Martha's Vineyard home. more ›

This might be more drama than we ever thought Al Gore capable of. According to Star Magazine, the former Vice President has been having an affair with Larry David's ex-wife for the past two years. Larry David split with wife Laurie back in 2007 amid reports that she was having an affair with the gardener of their home in Martha's Vineyard. Hmm, gardener...environmental activist...the truth was hiding in plain sight all along! Al Gore and wife Tipper separated at the beginning of the month, saying, "This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration." more ›

After audiences shoo-ed off Bee Movie, Jerry Seinfeld is looking to create some buzz on the small screen again. The NY Post is reporting that "the comedian will be playing himself in an exaggerated reality, in a show set in New York." Reportedly it will be a rip off of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David's HBO series (David co-created Seinfeld). more ›

Bad news is staggering down from Young Frankenstein’s extravagant Broadway castle: When critics begin gathering with pitchforks and torches next weekend, the show’s star, Roger Bart (he plays the titular role Gene Wilder made famous in the film), may be benched with a herniated disc. A monstrous problem indeed, as the part demands extensive dancing, and according to Michael Riedel, Mel Brooks is panicking. (Isn’t Larry David available?) A little birdy tells Riedel: "One scenario has his doctor pumping him with cortisone so he can play the critics' performances and opening night, then take time off to heal. But that, as any dancer will tell you, is extremely risky." more ›

A look at some noteworthy television this week:
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For one night only, Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin is bringing his popular LA show Combo Platter to NYC's UCB Theater. Every installment of CP begins with Garlin asking the audience for a topic that inspires a freewheeling conversation between he and his high-profile guests, in this case Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star Susie Essman and comedian Jim Gaffigan. A true gourmet comedy treat! more ›

Yes, yes, last night was the Golden Globes. And boy, that Warren Beatty NEVER SHUTS UP. more ›

After last year's mess of an awards show and this year's joke of nominations (where is love for Lauren Graham, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences?), we were going to swear off this year's Emmys. But then we realized Conan O'Brien was hosting, so we must watch and liveblog. And there's the hope of a good Steve Carrell bit, not to mention awkward reaction shots of Candy and Tori Spelling during the Aaron Spelling tribute. more ›

New York Press makes it's annual attempt at relevancy this week with it's list of the 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers. Sigh. more ›

There's nothing better than a Larry David NY Times opinion piece about Brokeback Mountain to make Gothamist snap out of our hangover. In true Larry David fashion, David writes about why he refuses to see the critically acclaimed film:

If two cowboys, male icons who are 100 percent all-man, can succumb, what chance to do I have, half- to a quarter of a man, depending on whom I'm with at the time? I'm a very susceptible person, easily influenced, a natural-born follower with no sales-resistance. When I walk into a store, clerks wrestle one another trying to get to me first. My wife won't let me watch infomercials because of all the junk I've ordered that's now piled up in the garage. My medicine cabinet is filled with vitamins and bald cures.

Maybe you couldn’t swing the cost of the Black Diamond All Access Pass, or perhaps you got blackballed from the St. Regis Hotel for trying to sneak into Larry David’s suite last year. Whatever your reason may be for not attending this year’s US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, you need not worry, a bit of it is coming to New York throughout the week. Flight of the Conchords, named Best Alternative Comedy Act at this year’s festival, will be performing their show at various venues around the city. Self described as “New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk parody duo”, Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie perform their own ingenious brand of acoustic musical comedy. The Guardian described them as having “virtuoso musicality and superbly gormless banter”. If you see one gormless show this week, Gothamist thinks this should be it. more ›

Of course, all of Steinbrenner's ranting about his players reminds us of Larry David's portrayal of The Boss in Seinfeld. And to think that on the show he once said, "chaos does not work for the New York Yankees! Not as long as I'm running the show!" Then again, with Steinbrenner, it's not chaos, just him interfering and meddling in his attempts to get a winning team. more ›

In the TV categories, Desperate Houswives cleaned up with five nominations (all the MILFs are nominated, except for the MILFiest one, Eva Longoria!). Desperate Housewives is fun and everything, and God knows that Marcis Cross must have a TV show, but Gothamist knows why the Hollywood Foreign Press Association betstowed so much love on them: They want hot ladies in hotter dresses at the ceremony. That's why Debra Messing keeps getting nominated. Then it's a lot of the usual "HBO gets lots of nominations stuff." Meh. And with three nominations (one for best actor for Ray, one for best supporting actor in Collateral, and one for a TV role), the HFPA really wants Jamie Foxx to win SOMETHING. more ›

While New York is likely to go to John Kerry, there are many states that are still in the balance, including New Jersey. The Electoral Vote Predictor, which predicts the outcome of the election using published polling numbers, currently has George Bush winning 311-217. more ›

Kenny Kramer, Entrepreneur / Wacky Next-Door Neighbor more ›

He sold disco jewelry, managed a reggae band, lived across the hall from Larry David and this weekend, as the rest of us boarded busses bound for sea and sand, he celebrated his 500th bus tour. more ›

Other examples noted are Whoopi getting mad at the President for using the bathroom at her hotel and Larry David's would-be affair being halted on Curb Your Enthusiasm because the woman had a framed picture of Bush, which was a classic moment. Let's face it, any framed pictures of a politican, of any party, without your date in the picture, is almost grounds for being a dating dealbreaker. Or at least, this is what Gothamist experienced when someone saw our Dennis Kucinich glamour shot displayed prominently in the home. more ›

It almost seems fitting that greed would screw over production of Seinfeld DVDs. The NY Times reports that Jason Alexander, Julia Louis–Dreyfus, and Michael Richards have refused to participate in "Making of" featurettes for the upcoming Seinfeld DVD because they've been unhappy with their profit particpation from syndication; Alexander, Louis–Dreyfus and Richards have only been receiving $100,000 year since the show ended. The "Making of" and any other interviews would have made a Seinfeld DVD package, the first of which is expected in December 2004, more compelling to buyers, considering Seinfeld runs a few times each day in syndication, which makes the $100,000 seem very small, especially considering the many millions Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, co creators, make. But greed and self–preservation was a signature of the Seinfeld gang; we just don't if we should expect to see Alexander or Louis–Dreyfus on Curb Your Enthusiasm this upcoming season (starting on January 5, 2004). more ›

Even more of a reason not to do anything on cold, winter Sunday nights: Sex and the City and Curb Your Enthusiasm will premiere on January 4, 2004. more ›

Michiko Kakutani looks at various celebrity chidren's book authors (some Madonna, some Lynne Cheney, even Keith Hernandez) and finds many of them, with their "very special messages," uninspiring. However, the one she takes to task is Jerry Seinfeld for his book, Halloween: more ›

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As if Mayor Bloomberg didn't have enough problems, New Yorkers are doubting his loyalty to the New York Yankees, as he is a Massachusetts native. Gothamist would like to see his poll numbers broken down by Yankees fans, Mets fans, Giants fans, Jets fans, Knicks fans, and disaffected sports ignorami from this point forward. [Actually, we'd really like to see voter breakdowns between those who watch Law & Order, Sex and the City, and Curb Your Enthusiasm (L.A., aka Crazyland, but Larry David's jerkiness rings true to his New York roots), but don't know if Bloomby's pollsters would want to bother.] But Mayor Bloomberg did make a "friendly wager" with Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino about the American League Championship Series, and Bloomby's speechwriters are pretty good: more ›

Newsweek' Newsmakers column decides to ask Sarah Jessica Parker a couple questions and she gets feisty! more ›