Comedy HBO/Larry David/Barack Obama developing Sketch Comedy

[Pennywise]

Larry David Sets HBO Return After ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ With American History Sketch Comedy Show; Obamas’ Higher Ground to Produce (EXCLUSIVE)

Larry David and Jeff Schaffer have teamed with the Obamas for a sketch comedy show about American history at HBO, Variety has learned exclusively

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[OrbOfConfusion]

You knew you couldn't stay away, Larry.

 

[Sawyer]

The sheer trickery of putting Obama’s name in the thread title. I thought Larry was going to be putting his comedic chops to work.

 

[Drizzle]

Just Barack, @Pennywise ? You two are on a first name basis?

 

[Pennywise]

Just Barack, @Pennywise ? You two are on a first name basis?

####, I didn’t notice until you mentioned it!

 

[Drizzle]

####, I didn’t notice until you mentioned it!

To be fair, it is kind of like a Beyonce thing where you can just use his first name and everyone knows who you're talking about lol

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Sawyer]

Wow. I didn’t even know they had started production.

 

[Lily Adler]

I'm sure this won't be vilified by people.

 

[Drizzle]

I'd say that this is Larry David's side quest but that's basically what Curb was since he could have easily retired after Seinfeld.

 

[Sawyer]

In one of the final season episode of Curb, Richard Lewis told Larry “I’m sick of your historical references.”

This is Larry’s spite show to a dearly departed friend.