Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down

podcast. My thanks is always for clicking and listening along. I am absolutely thrilled to bring you this treat

this week. My conversation with the one and only Larry David, as you may have heard by now,

his iconic series, curb your enthusiasm coming to an end after 12 seasons spanning 24 years.

He started the show in the year 2000.

Most people didn't really know who he was at that point.

We knew he was the co-creator along with Jerry Seinfeld,

of Seinfeld.

We knew he's a brilliant writer and comedian.

But then he stepped out to play this character that he says is a heightened version of himself.

He says he's not this bad in real life.

But as you'll hear in our conversation, he kind of cops to this being who he wishes he could be.

But due to social norms, he's not allowed to be in real life.

So I'm not going to do a big wind-up, you know he is I felt so lucky to sit down with him this was three days

before the very last episode ever of curb your enthusiasm I should point out for the purposes of the

conversation Larry surprised the hell out of me about a year and a half ago and called and asked if I would appear in an episode.

So I did have a role in episode four. Some of you may have seen it titled Disgruntled. I played myself where I interviewed

Larry who'd become kind of a liberal darling for something he'd done. I don't want to spoil it if you hadn't

watched. I went and interviewed him and things as you can

imagine went south it was a thrill to be on the inside to see how that show is made it's true there

are no scripts it's true it's ad lib it's true even you're not an actor, say you're a news anchor. They just expect you to go in and mix it up ad lib with Larry. It was such a blast. So we got together at a place called the Producers Club, which used to be the improv where he got his start in the

mid 1970s in stand-up comedy in a very Larry David way.

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