Larry David: a jerk, a slacker, a great guy

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Larry David is the apotheosis of the misanthrope.

He is that type of person so twisted that, in order not to go to a party out of laziness, instead of making up an excuse he pretends that he has forgotten and shows up the day after;

so suspicious that he would never leave his popcorn in the care of an overweight person for fear that he would eat one.

Larry David is the

the thinnest skin of mankind, hence the success of his HBO comedy,

: we all see in David what we don't like in ourselves and hate in others.

With Larry David the same question always arises:

He has always given the same answer: in fiction, Larry David is an exaggeration of the real Larry David, which is like saying that many of the situations may have happened, and if they have not, it has been for very little.

His anecdote is, in fact, mined with

: comedian Bobby Kelton explains in the series' official book that, in 1995, when David had already made a fortune with

, he bought a

.

"But he believed he didn't deserve it and he felt guilty.

He returned it and lost $16,000."

Although Larry David has no mystery and few secrets - he has always been described as lazy,

-, about to turn 75 and after 11 seasons of

, he finally tells his life story.

This March 2 premieres on HBO Max

a two-part documentary directed by Larry Charles that answers questions: where did he come from, how did he manage to work as a comedian without being funny - his brother Ken maintains that he never made him laugh, and the public of his first monologues hated him-, how the success of

was conceived and how it was later reinvented with the

definitive vitriolic

David was born in 1947, in New York, in a Jewish family.

He claims that

at anything.

"He was a mediocre student, I even got kicked out of Hebrew school for being late," he said in a 2006 interview. "But it wasn't until college that my sense of

and inadequacy surfaced."

He got a degree in History, but after graduating he only found work as a taxi driver and bra salesman.

A bad horizon for someone so apathetic.

So he looked for another job, more suitable for lazy people:

In the late 1970s, Larry David tried his luck at a stand-up club, Gerde's Folk City, in New York's Village, and no one liked it.

He did impressions and imagined

in which Hitler always appeared - the first joke of

was also there: Larry talks to Jeff Greene on the phone, and equates his wife with

without knowing that Jeff's parents, survivors of the Holocaust, they're listening.

He only over time he began to catch on, but only to other comedians.

His style was cerebral, abstract, and so

that it caused dislike.

The public never interested him, but he did make friends in the guild: in the late 1970s he began working on

, a Los Angeles television comedy show, and later moved to

, while continuing on the circuit. of Manhattan monologues.

There, in the mid-1980s, he met

Seinfeld

had risen to comedy star, and NBC asked him for a show.

Jerry enlisted the help of David and the germ of what would become

was born in 1988, in a Korean food store: the idea was to make a series "that

", in which two guys talk about trifles such as texture of Korean noodles and jellied sauces.

Seinfeld

ran for nine seasons - Larry David abandoned the scripts in the seventh - and they took the neurosis of Jewish humor to a height never before reached in what was a caricature of their real lives.

Larry David did not want to participate as an actor - they say that he hated being recognized, for fear of criticism - and his place was taken by the chubby actor

as George Costanza, his alter ego specialist in riding chickens and

Curb

began in 2000 and has intermittently become the longest-running show on HBO Max.

For Larry David it is the perfect series: he prepares a season when he feels like it -he has plenty of money-, almost all the dialogues are improvised in order to work less and, although he assures that over time he has been

himself , he has found in the series a vehicle to channel his manias and let his repressed subconscious surface, the one that drives him to fight with rude women in wheelchairs and throw them to the ground.

Even in the most incredible aspects,

is a mirror series of the real Larry: his fictional wife,

has her equivalent in Laura David, his first and only wife, with whom he had a daughter.

The only woman who put up with his neuras until she couldn't take it anymore;

they divorced in 2007, and since then David lives alone: ​​owner of his domain, king of his castle.

In the documentary, HBO Max promises,

Conforms to The Trust Project criteria

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