*Larry David is returning to HBO this summer time, and he’s bringing a really well-known pal alongside for the experience. The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator unveiled new particulars about his upcoming sketch comedy sequence, “Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Virtually Historical past of America,” throughout a SXSW panel on Friday.
The seven-episode restricted sequence, which reimagines key moments in U.S. historical past by means of David’s signature cringe-comedy lens, will premiere June 26 on HBO and Max. And sure, that’s former President Barack Obama making a cameo, The Each day Beast is reporting.
Wait, Obama and Larry David?
The pairing is much less random than it sounds. Obama and David are reportedly golf buddies, and the previous president’s manufacturing firm, Increased Floor (run with Michelle Obama), is an govt producer on the venture. The official logline units the tone completely: “President and Mrs. Obama wished to honor America’s 250th anniversary and have a good time the distinctive historical past of our nation on this special day… However then Larry David known as.”
In different phrases: civic uplift meets comedy’s biggest skilled irritant.
Throughout the SXSW panel, David and longtime collaborator Jeff Schaffer shared behind-the-scenes anecdotes about working with the forty fourth president. Schaffer revealed that Obama as soon as spent 45 minutes praising David earlier than gently providing a observe on a sketch. David’s response? Not precisely deference.
“On Curb and Seinfeld, I’m used to being the boss,” David defined. “Obama can be fairly used to being the boss. We got here to a little bit of a loggerhead there.” David’s proposed compromise: “I mentioned, ‘I’m president right here’.”
