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"Shrinking" star Christa Miller, who plays rock-collecting empty nester Liz on the brilliant Apple TV+ series, can portray an incredibly diverse range of women. Even just as Liz, the next-door neighbor to Jason Segel's grieving therapist character Jimmy, she shows her ability to be truly complex, balancing maternal warmth and venomous vitriol all within herself in a single scene. But long before she played the astonishingly great Liz or even snark queen Jordan on "Scrubs," Miller played two wildly different roles on the hit NBC sitcom "Seinfeld." What's even funnier is that both characters interacted almost entirely with Jason Alexander's character George Constanza, first as his potential employer, whom he ends up offending in a major way, and then later as his girlfriend, though it doesn't last long.

Miller is amazing when she's playing someone sweet and even more incredible when she's emotionally eviscerating someone with just a...

In the 1994 "Seinfeld" episode "The Opposite," George (Jason Alexander) begins to figure that his instincts for ... well, for everything are unreliable. He feels that every decision he has made has been incorrect and has an epiphany: If he does the opposite of everything his instincts tell him, then his life will improve. He begins immediately. Rather than sitting still and admiring the pretty woman sitting nearby at Monk's Café, George gets up and talks to her. Rather than brag about his accomplishments, he announces that he is unemployed and lives with his parents. The pretty woman, Victoria (Dedee Pfeiffer), is impressed by his candor and agrees to a date.

George's anti-instincts continue apace. He refuses to go up to Victoria's apartment after a date, for instance. He also stops shaving and overcomes his shyness to confront ruffians in a movie theater. The "Opposite" philosophy seems to be working for him.

James Spader is best known for his television roles, having appeared in a string of hits since the early 2000s. At the turn of the century, Spader shifted his attention to television, appearing as Alan Shore in Boston Legal, which transformed him into a household name.

As a result, it is natural for some fans to have forgotten about some of his earlier television roles, including his guest role in an episode of the wildly popular 90s sitcom Seinfeld. Although Spader appeared in just one episode, the actor’s performance was charming as ever, and here is what you need to know about Spader’s forgotten Seinfeld character.

James Spader appeared in an episode of Seinfeld James Spader in a still from Seinfeld (Credit: NBC).

Actor James Spader made a name for himself in the 1980s, primarily through his movie roles, which include hits like Pretty in Pink. Spader later transitioned to television acting,...

Exclusive: Artists First has signed rising comedic actress Keyla Monterroso Mejia for management, Deadline has learned.

Mejia broke out with her scene-stealing character arc as Maria Sofia Estrada on Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO’s award-winning comedy series from Larry David. The performance was one that caught the attention of many, including Abbott Elementary‘s Quinta Brunson, who in Season 2 tapped her for the recurring role of Ashley, teacher’s aide to Melissa Schementi (Lisa Ann Walter), on the hit ABC comedy.

Currently, Mejia can be seen recurring on Mindy Kaling’s pro basketball comedy series Running Point for Netflix as well as Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg’s Apple series, The Studio, where she plays Petra, Seth’s harried assistant. She also recently joined the cast of Apple TV+’s Acapulco for the show’s fourth and final season, which premieres July 23rd.

In film, Mejia has been seen starring opposite...

It is not hyperbole to say that "Seinfeld" is one of the most influential sitcoms of all time. The sitcom, created by comedians Jerry Seinfeld (natch) and Larry David, is certainly one of the funniest. The duo developed several episodes that are in contention for "the greatest episode of all time." It predicted the viral meme of "rawdogging" a flight, created a real holiday celebrated around the world with Festivus, and introduced several new words into the real-life English language. If you've ever called someone out for double dipping, or yada yada'd someone to get them to stop talking, you have "Seinfeld" to thank for that.

And yet, according to Jason Alexander who played the neurotic and unfortunately very relatable George Costanza on the show, the series didn't just entertain audiences. Rather, it actually helped many people change their lives for the better thanks to the extremely funny episode "The Opposite.

In the "Seinfeld" episode "The Revenge", George (Jason Alexander) has become fed up with his boring office job and wants to quit. Specifically, George is outraged by the fact that he was barred access to his company's executive washroom. He storms into his boss' office early in the episode and goes on a wrathful tirade about how his boss, Mr. Levitan (Fred Applegate), is a talentless hack and that he has no thoughts in his head. George yells, "I quit!" and angrily storms out. 

He then immediately goes to see his friend Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) to talk about his potential job prospects. He has none. George has no talents or interests. He idly muses that he could be a sports announcer, despite not having any experience in broadcasting. Jerry convinces George to go back into the office on Monday and pretend like nothing happened. Just go back to work, and...

If you've ever watched a television sitcom where its main characters are morally flexible people, you have Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld to thank. You just don't get shows like "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" without "Seinfeld" to pave the way. The highly influential NBC comedy, which made /Film's ranking of the best sitcoms of all time, only grew in popularity once audiences realized this wasn't going to be like any other show on television. Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander), and Kramer (Michael Richards) were characters who would often inconvenience the world around them and rarely take responsibility for their actions.

Almost like with any other friend group, viewers were invited into their circle to get a close-up encounter of how everyone acts around people they know very well. Every character in the core four were technically friends, but that would never stop them from interjecting...

If there's one thing you don't want to be in the world of "Seinfeld," it's a promising business. It already takes a considerable amount of money to set up a good location, let alone one in New York. Anyone who's ever worked in customer service has come across the kinds of patrons that only make your job that much more difficult, so imagine your clientele being Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander) and Kramer (Michael Richards). Together, those four have been partially responsible for shuttering places like Hot Soup, Leapin Larry's Electronics and The Mom and Pop Store. It shouldn't come as a total surprise considering they're walking forces of chaos, but sometimes they find themselves in the right.

In "The Non-Fat Yogurt," a new yogurt shop that Kramer has invested in is booming on account of its tasty treats. The "Seinfeld" characters can't get enough of it,...

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"Seinfeld" is a unique sitcom in a variety of ways. It upended the genre's storytelling formula by zeroing in on the petty exploits of four self-absorbed characters who reliably make their lives and/or the lives of others a living nightmare by prioritizing their own concerns. It eschewed the obligatory will-they-or-won't-they tension between the two characters (Jerry and Elaine) most likely to hook up by revealing early on that they'd already hooked up.

Another near-singular quirk of "Seinfeld," at least at the time, is that the four main characters were based on very real people. Aside from "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" (which starred the actual Nelson family), it's hard to think of a sitcom that drew so heavily from the lives of its creators. But Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, two comedians who emerged from the talent-packed 1970s stand-up club scene,...

The series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm found Larry David beating the charges against him in a highly-publicized court case, unlike the Seinfeld crew. And while Larry was on trial for handing out bottled water to Georgia voters, and not for taking large sums of money to hawk a dodgy crypto company, David’s real life took a somewhat similar turn this week.

As we’ve mentioned before, back in 2022, David starred in a Super Bowl commercial for the cryptocurrency exchange Ftx. The ad showed Larry casually dismissing Ftx, the “safe and easy way to get into crypto” after we’ve just witnessed generations of Larrys doing the same to important historical inventions, including the wheel, the light bulb and the toilet.

Unfortunately, the toilet turned out to be a more apt comparison than everyone realized at the time. Later that year, Ftx collapsed, costing its customers billions of dollars.

Keyla Monterroso Mejia made her professional acting debut only four years ago, playing terrible actress Maria Sofia Estradra in the 11th and 12th seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Since then, the 27-year-old has been steadily working with some of the biggest names in comedy. She’s currently playing the role of Petra, Seth Rogen’s assistant, in the Apple TV+ show The Studio, the over-the-top Hollywood farce that lets her flex her comedic muscles — and the final two episodes will deliver some key scenes for her character. “I’m definitely...

Larry David had never appeared in a commercial — at least until 2022 when he debuted in a Super Bowl ad as part of a campaign for cryptocurrency platform Ftx in a spot titled “Don’t Miss Out.” In it, he takes on his Curb Your Enthusiasm persona as a skeptic who travels through time and scoffs at inventions until he’s pitched Ftx as a safe and easy way to get into crypto. “Ehhh, I don’t think so,” he says. “And I’m never wrong about this stuff. Never.”

The ad ends with a title card that states, “Don’t be like Larry. Don’t miss out.”

Later that year, Ftx collapsed. The fallout included investors suing David, who was allegedly paid $13 million for appearing in the commercial, and other big names who endorsed the company.

Most claims in that lawsuit against David and a host of celebrities accused of...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 TIFF coverage. Friendship opens in theaters on May 9.

The level of enjoyment audience members will have with Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship is tied directly to their tolerance for the humor of Tim Robinson. The star of the meme-inspiring Netflix series I Think You Should Leave has cultivated a devoted following by creating situations of embarrassment and characters who veer wildly from absurdist rage to complete self-delusion. (See the infamous “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this” meme.) In my mind, I Think You Should Leave is the funniest series of the last decade or so. While Robinson’s full-length feature as star does not reach his show’s highs, it’s still a hysterically funny, pitch-black comedy.

That feature is Friendship, and it is exactly what Robinson fans would expect and want. Not unlike the Tim Heidecker-starrer The Comedy,...

Despite the cultural insistence that "Seinfeld" was a show about nothing, the hit NBC sitcom always lived up to its original pitch as a show about how a comedian gets their material. Just about every stand-up routine involves an exaggerated version of the weirdos a comic has met in their life, and boy is this show loaded with them. Chances are, you could inadvertently end up on the show should you baffle Larry David or Jerry Seinfeld while they're out and about. While the core four have encountered several outlandish strangers across their nine-season run, some have made enough of an impact to earn themselves a recurring role. It can happen through making a memorable impact the first time, falling into an ongoing story, or simply dating Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus).

Even if you don't know what Patrick Warburton looks like at first glance, you will once he opens his mouth,...

Saturday Night Live is known for its eclectic comedic sketches, however, it is doubtful whether any of those skits can ever top Larry David’s hilarious encounter with Sir Paul McCartney when he met the former Beatle at SNL50.

David, 77, recently opened up about his memorable experience of meeting the Hey Jude creator during a recent interview, where he revealed that he didn’t waste a breath in exchanging pleasantries when he met McCartney. Instead, he chose to assuage his boiling curiosity regarding the musician’s personal life when he got the chance to have a direct conversation with McCartney, 82.

Larry David didn’t beat around the bush when he asked Paul McCartney a personal question

Appearing on the Fly on the Wall podcast, David recalled the moment from Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary event from February 2025, where he directly asked the legendary singer whether he had ever been punched in the face.

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Enthusiasts of Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David's hit sitcom "Seinfeld" would be able to tell you that the title character (Seinfeld) had many, many girlfriends over the course of the show's 180 episodes. Indeed, Jerry usually only dated his partners for plot purposes, allowing them to stick around for a single episode. The following week, Jerry would be dating someone new. A metric on the show's DVDs pointed out that Jerry dated a grand total of 72 women over the course of the series' nine years. That means he dated each woman for an average of 45-and-a-half days. Only five of the 72 women dated Jerry for more than one episode.

It's easy to see why Jerry never dated anyone for an extended period. Jerry and the other three leads of "Seinfeld" were meant to be shallow, petty, childish, and awful. They were neurotic and self-serving characters,...

Bill Maher is clearly still dealing with the fallout of his friendly meal with President Trump, which has, so far, sparked a massive fan backlash and inspired a Larry David short story set in Nazi Germany. At least Maher has been celebrated as a modern hero by… Bill Maher.

On this week’s episode of Real Time, Maher was mostly quite critical of his former dinner companion. But things got a little awkward when the subject of being embarrassed to be seen visiting the White House came up.

Last month, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer went viral for seemingly trying to distance herself from Trump while literally standing in the Oval Office. According to CNN, Whitmer visited the White House “with a bipartisan delegation to discuss a laundry list of issues affecting her state.”

But she was caught off guard after being invited into the Oval Office and lauded by Trump in front of the press,...

The music industry was shocked this week upon the news that groundbreaking singer-songwriter Jill Sobule died in a house fire outside of Minneapolis on Thursday at age 66. Sobule, beloved among the songwriter community and known for her political activism, broke through in the ’90s with songs like “I Kissed a Girl” and “Supermodel.” The former was the first openly gay song to crack the top 20 on the Billboard charts, the latter was featured in the 1995 film Clueless.

Among the many friends of Sobule still in disbelief is Michelle Lewis, a longtime friend and the CEO of the Songwriters of North America (Sona). Lewis and Sobule wrote frequently together since the pair met in the mid-2000s. She was preparing to see Sobule soon before she heard the news of Sobule’s passing, as Sobule was supposed to stay at Lewis’s home in Los Angeles next week when she came into town.

Tia Carrere voiced Lilo’s sister in Lilo & Stitch, went on Indiana Jones-like adventures for the show Relic Hunter and acted as Larry David’s “bathroom monitor” on Curb Your Enthusiasm…

…but for many of us, she will always be Crucial Taunt frontwoman Cassandra Wong from Wayne’s World, the beloved comedy/third best Terminator movie.

Carrere’s performance is unquestionably a key ingredient in what makes Wayne’s World work so well. She’s funny, but also finds a way to ground the frequently goofy movie, giving the Wayne-Cassandra relationship a feeling of realism. And obviously the entire climax of the movie hinges on her impressive musical talents. Even in the Scooby-Doo ending.

During a recent appearance on The Rich Eisen Show, Carrere revealed that she actually turned down a role in TV’s Baywatch after reading the Wayne’s World script. “I thought, ‘It will be mine, oh yes. It will be mine,...

It's not uncommon for recurring characters on a popular sitcom to receive successful spin-off shows. For example, "Happy Days" spawned "Laverne & Shirley" and "Mork & Mindy," the latter of which originated from what was first thought of as a "horrible" episode script.  On the other end of the spectrum, you've got shows like "Seinfeld," which drew impressive audiences back in the day but didn't give birth to any sort of spin-off series.

However, it wasn't for a lack of trying that the "show about nothing" has nothing by way of spin-offs. George Costanza actor Jason Alexander pitched a couple of spin-off ideas, one of which would have centered on Cosmo Kramer's (Michael Richards) lawyer, Jackie Chiles (Phil Morris), who was a parody of O.J. Simpson's defense attorney Johnnie Cochran. And as it turns out, Morris made a similar pitch, as he stated at a 1999 press event (via the...

Larry David never had the easiest time at Saturday Night Live. During his brief tenure as a staff writer in the mid-1980s, he only managed to get one sketch on the air. The piece, all about one architect’s controversial plan to install a stool for an elevator operator, didn’t go over so well with the audience. The joke fared better when it was recycled for a Seinfeld episode years later.

Famously, David became so frustrated that he quit SNL, only to regret the decision and show up to work on Monday morning as if nothing had happened. This anecdote, too, was later repurposed for Seinfeld.

But that was all before David became an Emmy-winning sitcom creator and the star of his own cable series. When he returned to host the show as a venerated celebrity, surely he had an easier time getting his material on the show,...

It's hard to imagine Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld's hit sitcom "Seinfeld" missing any one of its four lead characters. Jerry (Seinfeld) was the shallow and neurotic one. George (Jason Alexander) was the shallow and neurotic one. Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) was the shallow and neurotic one. And Kramer (Michael Richards) was the shallow and neurotic one with the get-rich-quick schemes. Each of the four actors was nominated for multiple Emmys for their acting work on "Seinfeld," with Seinfeld receiving five noms, Alexander receiving seven, Louis-Dreyfus also receiving seven (and winning one), and Richards netting five and winning three. It couldn't be made today. 

Weirdly, the character of Elaine wasn't in the pilot for "Seinfeld," called "The Seinfeld Chronicles". The fourth lead role was originally supposed to be a waitress named Claire, played by actress Lee Garlington, but the restaurant where she worked was re-tooled for the show's second episode,...

It's well documented that the sitcom classic "Seinfeld" was drawn from the lives of its creators, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David. The pair had been working in the American stand-up comedy scene for over a decade and, as very funny men living primarily in the weirdo-stuffed world of New York City, had accumulated more than enough wild stories to fill hours upon hours of stand-up sets. They could've dined out on this material for decades! But there's way, way more money in creating a hit network sitcom, so the duo wisely took their idea to NBC. The network, well, didn't exactly get "Seinfeld" at first, but when the ratings skyrocketed in season 4, its executives learned to overlook their confusion over the show's idiosyncratic formula.

As "Seinfeld" became a pop cultural institution, fans clamored to learn more about the people behind the series. Did Jerry really run through girlfriends like that in real life?...

"Seinfeld" may be named after Jerry Seinfeld, but it's very much an ensemble show. By the end of an episode of "Seinfeld," Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) is equally as important as George (Jason Alexander), as is Kramer (Michael Richards) and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Chances are the core four will be thrust into a scenario that requires them to be on the same page à la "The Contest," but there's always this hole one or more of them will manage to dig themselves into on their own accord.

If there's a get rich quick scheme to be had, you'll find Kramer taking advantage of it. If there's a lie that needs to be maintained in order to secure a date, the consequences will always befall George. But the secret to a great Elaine plot is the subversion of someone who seemingly has it all together. She's always quick to make comedic jabs...

Regardless of genre, television series lean heavily on the will-they-or-won't-they relationship between two main characters to generate real-life and online buzz. You know how it works: two seemingly mismatched characters (e.g. the "Cheers" duo of Ted Danson's caddish Sam Malone and Shelley Long's intellectual Diane Chambers) discover, often to their own disgust, that they're hot for this person they should despise to the marrow of their bones, and it's only a matter of time before their spark-shooting flirtation leads to a full-on sexual conflagration. We've seen it more recently with Tony Dinozzo (Michael Weatherly) and Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) on "NCIS" (which spawned the forthcoming "NCIS: Tony and Ziva"), and we'll see it over and over again because the hoary formula works.

This is another reason why "Seinfeld" is one of the most brilliant shows in television history. There was no will-they-or-won't-they because the only "they...

Some celebrities love being impersonated on Saturday Night Live. Hillary Clinton said the “amazing” Kate McKinnon does Hillary Clinton better than Hillary Clinton does Hillary Clinton. Similarly, Bernie Sanders wanted to use Larry David at his political rallies, saying David “does better” than Sander does. The celebs below, however, didn’t find their SNL impressions funny. From Barbara Walters taking offense to Gilda Radner’s impersonation to Aimee Lou Woods’ frustration with a recent White Lotus spoof, here are stars who spoke out against the show. Barbara Walters Gilda Radner amped up Barbara Walters’ Boston accent during her many appearances as the television journalist on SNL. And the real-life “Baba Wawa” wasn’t a fan — at first, anyway. Cindy Ord/Getty Images “I hated the Gilda Radner ‘Baba Wawa’ until I walked into my daughter’s room one night, and she was up watching it,” Walters said in a 2000 Television Academy Foundation interview.

There are some shows that break into the cultural consciousness at the exact right time and "Seinfeld" is no doubt one of them. Creating a sitcom that serves as a pillar of television comedy whose fire can never be extinguished is a testament to the sharp writing of series co-creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. Over three decades on, "The Contest" is rightfully upheld as one of the funniest sitcom episodes ever produced. It's all thanks to the teamwork of the show's writers and the foursome ensemble, who were often a perfect storm of comedic genius. It's no accident that some of the funniest bits, however, emanate from Jason Alexander.

"Was that wrong; should I not have done that" is a great line to come out of George Costanza in defending his decision to have sex with the cleaning woman on his desk in "The Red Dot," but the two...

Comedian Bill Maher has publicly addressed a satirical op-ed by longtime friend Larry David, which implicitly compared Maher’s dinner with former President Donald Trump to dining with Adolf Hitler.

In an interview with Piers Morgan, Maher criticized David’s piece, titled “My Dinner With Adolf,” stating, “This wasn’t my favorite moment of our friendship.” He added, “I think the minute you play the Hitler card, you’ve lost the argument.”

Maher emphasized that meeting with Trump and reporting the experience honestly does not signify support or moral compromise.​ The comedian said he found the president “gracious” and didn’t recognize him from his public persona.

David’s op-ed, published in The New York Times, parodied Maher’s April 11 monologue on Real Time With Bill Maher, where Maher described Trump as surprisingly personable in private. David’s satire involved a fictional encounter with Hitler, drawing parallels to Maher’s dinner with Trump.

Bill Maher is standing his ground over dining with Donald Trump after recent Nazi comparisons.

On Friday’s episode of Real Time, the comedian went on a tangent about taking “some shit from the ‘looney left'” over his dinner with Trump, referencing Larry David‘s recent New York Times essay ‘My Dinner with Hitler‘ about the meeting.

“I just think ‘Nazi’ is a hard word to use with nuance. So, when you bring that word out—I feel like they’re the goat of evil, and so it just conflates your [argument],” he told guest Al Gore, without directly naming David or referencing the article.

“I guarantee that the side of the country that voted for Trump, they hear ‘Nazi,’ and they just go, ‘Oh, you’re calling us Nazis?’ First of all, it’s a bit of a false premise, as bad as they are. And also, it just says to them,...

Bill Maher is getting another round of publicity for his dinner with Donald Trump — this time by way of reacting to Larry David's "My Dinner With Adolf" essay for The New York Times. The not-so-thinly-veiled take-down of Maher's cringe-inducing, 13-minute-long monologue about meeting the current U.S. President at a dinner organized by Kid Rock (yep) made waves on social media when it was published, mostly for using infamous Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as a stand-in for Donald Trump. The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator and star's satirical dragging of the Real Time host's claims of journalistic neutrality seems to have hit a nerve with Maher, who balked at the comparison between Trump and Hitler.

In a new interview with Piers Morgan (who apparently has a YouTube channel now), Maher called the spoof on his dinner "insulting" and not his "favorite moment in our friendship" (meaning that between he...

A real-life incident when Michael Richards had to wear a ratty hotel bathrobe to a formal NBC party? The whole story was so Kramer-esque that I can’t believe Larry David didn’t turn it into a Seinfeld episode.

It was January 1994, right in the middle of Seinfeld’s peak of popularity. NBC was gathering all of its affiliates, advertisers and muckety-mucks for a mid-season event, and the Seinfeld cast was the main attraction. The network even ponied up for a private jet. “No way NBC is flying us private unless we are red hot,” Richards wrote in his memoir, Entrances and Exits.

The flight was fancy, but Julia Louis-Dreyfus wasn’t nuts about their hotel accommodations. “This place is a dump,” she laughed when she called Richards about her less-than-swanky room. Richards wasn’t as discerning — hey, it was free and the TV worked. But it turned out that the hotel had other shortcomings.

Bill Maher has fired back at Larry David after the Curb Your Enthusiasm star spoofed the Real Time host’s recent meeting with President Donald Trump in a New York Times essay titled “My Dinner With Adolf.” Despite the comedians being long-time friends, David skewered Maher’s White House visit in a fictional account of an Adolf Hitler critic meeting the Führer to hear his side. While David never mentioned Maher by name in the piece, it came just days after the HBO star talked about how the President was a “gracious” host and “much more self-aware than he lets on.” Appearing on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Thursday (April 24), Maher was asked about David’s essay, to which he responded, “This wasn’t my favorite moment of our friendship.” “I don’t want to get too much into that, but I think the minute you play the Hitler card, you’ve lost the argument,...

Bill Maher was not a fan of Larry David’s recent satirical “My Dinner With Adolf” essay in the New York Times. In a new interview with Piers Morgan, Maher slammed the comedian’s essay, which he said compared his recent meeting with Trump to a meeting with Hitler, calling the scorching take “insulting to six million dead Jews.”

“To use the Hitler thing — first of all, it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews,” Maher told Morgan on his podcast. “It’s an argument you kind of lost just to start it.

Bill Maher does not approve of Larry David’s satirical “My Dinner With Adolf” essay.

The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator wrote a satirical piece for The New York Times, which published Monday, in response to Maher’s early April White House visit with President Donald Trump. The Real Time host slammed David’s article on Thursday, stating that it was “insulting to six million dead Jews” for him to satirically joke about visiting Hitler and enjoying his company in the piece.

“To use the Hitler thing — first of all, I think it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews,” he said during an interview with Piers Morgan. “That should kind of be in its own place.”

Maher argued against David invoking Hitler. He continued, “It’s an argument you kind of lost just to start it. Look, maybe it’s not completely logically fair, but Hitler has really...

New rule: if you’re going to satirize me in the New York Times, then I’m going to respond to you on Piers Morgan Uncensored. That’s how Bill Maher approached his response to Larry David’s essay “My Dinner With Adolf,” which was published in the New York Times on Monday and satirized Maher’s visit to the White House in March, after which Maher called President Trump “gracious” and “not fake.”

“First of all, it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews,” Maher told Piers Morgan in an interview on the set of Maher’s podcast. “It’s an argument you kind of lost just to start it. Look, maybe it’s not completely logically fair, but Hitler has really kind of got to stay in his own place. He is the Goat of evil. We’re just going to have to leave it like that.

Bill Maher may have broken bread with Donald Trump, but there is no love lost this week between the Real Time host and Larry David.

Three days after the Seinfeld co-creator ruthlessly mocked Maher in a New York Times “My Dinner With Hitler” op-end for chumming up with Trump at the White House late last month, the Rt frontman tried to save face by moving the goal posts.

“To use the Hitler thing— first of all, I think it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews,” Maher told Piers Morgan in a more than 30-minute video released Thursday. “That should kind of be in its own place.”

Calling fellow HBOer David a “friend,” Maher continued: “The minute you play the ‘Hitler’ card, you’ve lost the argument. Nobody’s been more prescient about Donald Trump than me. Just the fact that I met him doesn’t change that.

Amalia Ulman’s Magic Farm is in theaters beginning April 25. A New Leaf.Never have I seen one woman in whom every social grace was so lacking. Did I say she was primitive? Well, I retract that. She’s feral.—Henry Graham, of Henrietta, in A New LeafI have been dreading writing this essay because it means admitting to myself and to the world something very unfortunate: I am a loser brunette.It was 2017, and my then husband suggested we watch A New Leaf (1971) because there was a new Blu-ray restoration, which was exciting. But as I watched Walter Matthau as Henry Graham arrogantly reckoning with the fact that he had run out of money, making teary-eyed farewell visits to his Upper East Side tailor and racket club, I thought of the man sitting next to me and was shocked by the similarities. “He’s just like you,” I said to my husband,...

"Seinfeld" has been off the air for nearly 30 years, and yet it still dominates cultural conversation to this day. Whether it's the continued relevance of actors like Julia Louis-Dreyfus, co-creator Larry David's HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" which references the show, or iconic phrases & sayings that only exist because of "Seinfeld," it's hard to forget about how popular the series was throughout the '90s. 

Despite the show's popularity still thriving in 2025, there are a lot of episodes of "Seinfeld" that, as is typical for sitcoms of that era, haven't exactly aged super well. Plenty of shows like "Friends" or "Will & Grace" were notably behind the times when it comes to issues of LGBTQ+ representation, on-screen diversity, and other aspects of modern-day political correctness. However, there are comedy series on currently that still push the envelope, like "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," and surprisingly still hold up by today's standards.

When Steve Carell left The Office, the show never recovered. And when Chelsea Peretti left Brooklyn 99, a critical part of its cast’s dynamic was lost, which cost the show some of its edge. Usually, when a sitcom loses a character, no matter the reason, the show suffers. Sometimes, however, a departure is more akin to when a butcher trims the fat; the show is tightened up and, because time is no longer wasted on them, it’s an overall improved result, if anyone even notices at all.

Here are five such times where a character was removed from a sitcom, arguably for the better…

1 Mark Brendanawicz on ‘Parks and Recreation’

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Larry David has penned a satirical essay, titled “My Dinner With Adolf,” for The New York Times, mocking Bill Maher’s recent White House visit with President Donald Trump.

In the opinion piece, the Curb Your Enthusiasm creator-star imagined it was 1939 and that he had been invited to dinner “with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler.” David joked, “I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship. No one I knew encouraged me to go. ‘He’s Hitler. He’s a monster.’ But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity.”

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Larry David has done it again. The comedian, best known for the sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm, has delivered a subtle yet powerful troll aimed at President Donald Trump’s recent dinner with comedian and political commentator Bill Maher.

In a cleverly veiled jab at this political moment, David not only takes a dig at Trump but also at his fellow comedian in an essay published in The New York Times.

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Larry David is known for his sharp wit and talent for delivering subtle jabs, something he recently demonstrated in response to Donald Trump’s dinner with Bill Maher, who joined the president at the White House last month.

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Larry David has skewered Bill Maher‘s recent White House visit with a satirical essay for the New York Times titled “My Dinner With Adolf.” While the Curb Your Enthusiasm star never mentioned Maher by name, the article came just days after the Real Time host gushed about his meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. On the April 12 episode of Real Time, Maher said Trump was a “gracious” host and “much more self-aware than he lets on.” He went on to say, “Everything I’ve ever not liked about him was — I swear to God — absent, at least on this night with this guy.” This praise came after years of negative comments back and forth between the HBO star and the former Apprentice host. Trump has frequently slammed Maher’s show and referred to the comedian as a “low-life.” David spoofed Maher’s White House visit, penning...

Larry David spoofed Bill Maher’s glowing review of his White House dinner with Donald Trump with a satirical essay in The New York Times entitled, “My Dinner With Adolf.”

“I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship,” David wrote in his fictitious account. “But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side.”

Maher teased his March 31 dinner with Trump on social media in the days leading up to the date, with many expecting a blowout between the mouthy late-night pundit and controversial president. However, on an April 12 episode of “Real Time,” Maher gushed about the meeting, praising the president as “gracious” and “much more self-aware than he lets on.”

“Everything I’ve...

It’s fairly clear what prompted Larry David’s satirical essay today for the New York Times entitled “My Dinner With Hitler.”

“Eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere,” writes David of his fictional meeting with the Führer. “I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side.”

Sound familiar?

A couple weeks weeks ago Bill Maher, whom the Times points out is “a comedian Larry respects,” visited Donald Trump for dinner at the White House.

Describing the meeting on Real Time some days later, Maher opined, “I’m not the leader of anything, except maybe a contingent of centrist-minded people who think there’s got to be a better way to run this country than hating each other every minute.”

At one point, Maher said he cracked a joke and was surprised Trump actually laughed, because he never had seen that before.

Leave it to Curb Your Enthusiasm star and Seinfeld co-creator Larry David to know just how to skewer Bill Maher. The Real Time host — who recently had a much-publicized dinner with Donald Trump — is no stranger to stoking controversy with his political viewpoints over the years. But it seems as though his recent capitulation to the United States' current Commander-in-Chief has really struck a chord. Enough, at least, to elicit a scathingly hilarious response from Larry David in the form of a satirical op-ed for The New York Times.

In the piece, titled "My Dinner With Adolf," David makes several direct references to Maher's dinner — and the subsequent 13-minute opening monologue that followed on his late-night show. According to Maher, the whole thing was set up by Trump and his mutual friend... the musician Kid Rock. All was done under the guise of talking to one another because hating...

It feels safe to say that Larry David wasn’t impressed with Bill Maher’s recent dinner with President Donald Trump. The “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator and star mocked the controversial meeting in a New York Times op-ed titled “My Dinner With Adolf.”

“My Dinner With Adolf” is exactly what it sounds like — David recounting having an imagined dinner with Adolf Hitler in 1939. From the very beginning, the piece alludes that it’s about Maher, taking shots at the comedian’s center-left politics and softening toward the sitting president.

“I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity,” David wrote in the Monday satire piece.

But as it continues, it becomes clear that it’s less of a nod to Maher and more of a barely veiled takedown.

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…this time, David’s muse, it would seem, is the awfulness of Bill Maher. His piece is titled “Larry David: My Dinner with Adolf.” You can probably see where this is going.

“Imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler,” the story begins. “I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship.

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