Tribute to the Roots (2000)
Unpleasant to cheat like that at the beginning – this is an excerpt from the “Calm Down” pilot, which was supposed to be an hour-long one-hour HBO commentary and surprisingly rolled into the comedy series in the format we know today. But he is here because he allows a glimpse of Larry David in the format in which he began his career: a stand-up comedian. As a stand-up comedian he was notorious for absurd topics for passages (many friends from the period like to mention that he used to start with a joke that dealt with absurd phenomena in Latin grammar), and here he devotes an entire minute to the story of Hitler in a magician’s show. Unfortunately, this seems to be the only documentation-not-documentation of this stage in his life where we will have to make do.
Receiving the Emmy Award (1993)
This is the award-winning speech in history, which sums up better than any other possible passage, really in a sentence and a half, what is this natural phenomenon called “Larry David”. The biggest award on American television, for “The Competition,” the legendary episode of “Seinfeld,” and Larry is only interested in one thing. And what is it if not the epitome of Larry David’s humor: an inability (artificial, of course) to overcome yourself and conform to some respectable status.
Collegiate Paragon (2018)
When Julia Louis-Dreyfus won the Mark Twain Award in 2018, the prestigious award an American comedian could win, David of course recorded a congratulatory video for her. As expected, the bulk of the video is about David himself and how much he would like to win a prize in her place, and in the few moments he deals with Louis-Dreyfus, he laughs at the cancer he had recovered from shortly before. Now this is true friendship.
Interested Interests (2010)
For anyone wondering how Larry David does a service broadcast: So this way, and it’s perfect (and notice how he connects here, in a big way, the two themes in the previous videos. That’s what’s beautiful about him: his obsessions).
Hair! He has hair! (1981)
So let’s give Larry the honor and see him for a moment in the days when he had hair. Here he participates in the short-lived program Fridays, which was supposed to be ABC’s answer to “Saturday Night Live”, and like all the others who tried to compete with her on her pitch – did not survive too long (three seasons, in this case), but met young Larry with Michael Rich ‘Reds (later Kramer). After the cancellation of Fridays, David rushed to cross the road to a competitor and become a screenwriter for just one season, with an incredible negative record – he managed to put only one sketch into the show throughout the season. The others were cruelly shelved.
Victory Round (2015)
In 2015, exactly 30 years after he was fired from SNL, and long after he had already gained world fame, Larry David returned to the legendary Light Knight thanks to an unexpected trait: his great resemblance (both physically and in cutting Brooklyn speech) to Democratic senator Bernie Sanders, who then made headlines When he ran in the primaries against Hillary Clinton and became a surprisingly serious candidate. David’s casting for the role was desirable but also surprising: despite everything, he is almost never seen playing a non-himself or a very close variation on himself, and suddenly he enters a foreign realm of imitation of a well-known politician (and his humor in general is usually quite Far from the worlds of political satire) – and became one of the show’s favorite shows of the season. Of course Larry did not have to put in too much effort to play Bernie Sanders, but only a year and a bit later, in the program Finding Your Roots, which reveals to American celebrities facts about their family tree, Larry discovered a relative of his. And look how happy he is about it!
Victory Round (2017)
And here he completes his victory tour, hosts SNL in 2017 and performs a standup monologue – as mentioned, a particularly rare play. Of course, this monologue, in which he laughs, among other things, at Harvey Weinstein (the affair had just exploded shortly before) and also at the Holocaust, caused a slight scandal.
So what if it’s crypto (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5-rSxilxo
And here he marks V on another milestone in American culture: a Super Bowl commercial. True, it’s for crypto, and we all know what’s going on with this market right now, but it’s still a perfect advertisement, in which Larry shows how he can stay Larry even in a variety of period costumes.
Absolutely True (2012)
But in the end, the video that best shows Larry David in reality is simply Larry David that we know from TV is this video (starting about half a minute into the segment): Larry David gets stuck in an exit from a parking lot (to whom did it not happen?) And is documented by the driver behind him , It’s Larry David “while filming him behaving just like in the episode of” Calm Down “. There is nothing to do, for those who love Larry David, and a great many people love Larry David, there is something that just warms the heart knowing that he really is like that. Never change. Not that you could even if you wanted to.