- Born
- Birth nameLawrence Gene David
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Lawrence Gene David is an American comedian, actor, writer, director, and television producer. He and Jerry Seinfeld created the television sitcom Seinfeld, on which David was head writer and executive producer for the first seven seasons. He gained further recognition for the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which he created and stars in as a semi-fictionalized version of himself. He has written or co-written the stories of every episode since its pilot episode in 1999.
David's work on Seinfeld won him two Primetime Emmy Awards in 1993, for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Comedy Series. Formerly a comedian, he went into television comedy, writing and starring in ABC's Fridays, and writing briefly for Saturday Night Live. He has been nominated for 27 Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. He was voted by fellow comedians and comedy insiders as the 23rd greatest comedy star ever in a 2004 British poll to select "The Comedian's Comedian", and received the Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement by the Writers Guild of America in 2010.
Since 2015, he has made recurring guest appearances on Saturday Night Live, where he impersonates 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpousesAshley Underwood(October 7, 2020 - present)Laurie Lennard(March 31, 1993 - October 23, 2008) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- ParentsMorty DavidRose David
- RelativesKen David(Sibling)Julie Claire(Niece or Nephew)
- His writing uses humor derived from awkward social situations
- Often uses articles of clothing as major plot devices
- Bald head
- Distinctive Oliver Peoples eyeglasses
- Acerbic, neurotically dark humor
- Roger Ebert gave David's major motion picture writing-directing debut Sour Grapes (1998) a zero-star review (a rating he saved for especially bad movies he found to be "evil"). David got his revenge with his new show Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000), where a food critic (who just happens to use a thumbs up/thumbs down approach to his reviews) gets his thumbs accidentally broken by David during a dodgeball game. But Ebert loved the show, though he recalled wincing at the thumb-breaking scene.
- Many of the stories in Seinfeld (1989), such as George returning to a job he quit a few days prior and pretending he never left, are based on things that really happened to him.
- Was a writer on Saturday Night Live (1975) for one season. In that entire season, David got only one sketch that he had written on the air, and it was the last sketch of the night.
- When he was a stand-up comedian, he once walked on-stage and surveyed the crowd. Sensing no connection with them, he said, "This just isn't going to work," and promptly walked off the stage without performing any jokes.
- He carries a pad of paper and a pencil with him wherever he goes to record his ideas, which typically come from his real-life interactions with people.
- I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.
- [after winning the Golden Globe for best comedy series] This is a sad day for the Golden Globes. It is, however, quite a good day for Larry David. I suspect the wife will be a little forthcoming tonight.
- Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
- Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.
- Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man--there's your diamond in the rough.
- Seinfeld (1989) - $200,000,000 (from the sale of the syndication rights to the show)
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