Susie Essman

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Finally, Ted Danson and Susie Essman can talk without Larry David interrupting! Susie tells Ted about how she found her voice in the male-dominated standup world, her memories of Larry doing standup, the Jerry Stiller roast that helped her get cast on Curb Your Enthusiasm, how she developed Susie Greene’s style, and more. Bonus: Susie asks Ted what he really felt about his Curb character getting divorced. This conversation was recorded in 2023. To help those affected by the Southern California wildfires, make a donation to World Central Kitchen today. Like watching your podcasts? Visit http://youtube.com/teamcoco to see full episodes.

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0:00.0	I'd be at the produce section in Fairway or Zabars, and somebody was shot the phone in my face and say,
0:05.7	it's my husband, call him a fat fuck, you know, that kind of thing.
0:16.9	Welcome back to where everybody knows your name.
0:20.3	On today's episode, I'm joined by one of the stars of
0:23.3	Curb Your Enthusiasm, actor and comedian Susie Esman. On Curb, she played Susie Green, the wife of Larry's
0:31.4	agent, Jeff Green. Now, if you're like me, you loved Susie's character for her no-b-s-ways.
0:38.0	She's foul-mouthed, wears outrageous clothes, and isn't scared to go toe-to-to-to-with Larry.
0:43.2	Even though Susie Esmond is obviously her own person, her character's fearlessness somehow reminds me of her own.
0:49.9	How she navigated the male-dominated world of stand-up by being even more raunchy and unfiltered than her peers.
0:57.6	I can't wait for you to get to know her better.
1:00.2	And now you will.
1:01.8	Meet Susie Espin.
1:05.2	Hi, Susie.
1:07.4	Hi, Ted.
1:08.8	I haven't seen you in months. I know, March something, 24th or something. Something like that,
1:15.9	our last day. Yeah. Oh, wow, hard, very hard. You know what I love about this? I love that I get to talk to you for
1:26.0	an hour or whatever it is, and Larry's not
1:29.7	going to interrupt us. It's just going to be you and me. Just you and me. No, Jeff, you know,
1:35.6	coming in, no, Larry annoying us. Runing. Larry's actually, Larry doesn't annoy on set because he's
1:42.8	too, you know, focused.
1:44.4	Yeah, that's true.
1:45.5	I'll tell you, I have a whole category talking with you about how annoying is it to work with Larry David.
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