Larry David told a TV critics’ meeting that his irascible, mouthy character on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is much closer to resembling himself than it is another blunt talker, President Donald Trump.
David’s HBO comedy is returning on October 1 for a 10-episode season after a six-year absence.
A reporter at the meeting questioned whether Trump represented a rival to the show.
“I don’t consider myself a (expletive),” David responded, according to the Associated Press.
Jeff Garlin, David’s co-star on the show, supported David’s answer.
“Our president is not funny, and Larry’s funny. So I don’t see the competition,” Garlin said. “I think one is completely sad, and one you escape from the horribleness of the sad one.”
This is the show’s ninth season and cast members include Cheryl Hines, Susie Essman and J.B. Smoove, with Elizabeth Banks, Bryan Cranston and Lauren Graham among the guest stars.
David said he decided to bring the show back because even though he doesn’t tend to “really miss things, people, that much,” he was missing it and his co-stars.
David will have a role in PBS’s genealogy series “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” In the show, he finds out he has a family connection to Bernie Sanders the senator and former presidential hopeful.
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