Larry David Announces New Tour By Telling Fans To Stay Home
Infamous curmudgeon Larry David is going on tour, and he wants fans to come see him—if they have nothing else to do. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star took to Instagram Tuesday to announce his upcoming A Conversation With Larry David tour. Larry David, being Larry David, the comedian, was utterly unenthusiastic about the announcement.
The video begins with Larry David calling the tour “this thing” he’s doing. “It’s really nothing,” he continues. It will be a total waste of your time.” David eventually relents and tells fans to come, but only if they’re unoccupied. Even then, the comedian would prefer you go bowling.
“You could consider bowling,” Larry offers before announcing he himself might be “hitting the lanes” soon despite not setting foot in a bowling alley in what he estimates is 50 years. The legendary misanthrope finishes the video with one final call to (in)action: “If you want to go, you go. If you don’t, you don’t. Not a big deal either way. OK!”
As far as preparation for the tour goes, Larry David is putting just as much work into the show as his fans would expect him to—i.e., zero.
Larry David’s A Conversation With Larry David tour begins September 20 in Denver, Colorado, and ends December 5 in Hollywood, Florida. According to Live Nation, the show consists of an “informal discussion” about Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and anything else Larry feels like talking about. So, if you were hoping for a lengthy discourse on Sour Grapes, don’t hold your breath.
The show features a moderator, though who will fill the role and whether it will be different in every city remains to be seen. Past moderators have included MSNBC’s Ari Melber and fellow curmudgeon Marc Maron. One can only assume that an hour listening to Larry David and Marc Maron would feel eerily similar to chewing aspirin and washing it down with black coffee—just 60 min of acrid, bitter sarcasm.
With Curb now off the air, A Conversation With Larry David may be fans’ only chance to see their favorite grouch in person.
As far as preparation for the tour goes, Larry David is putting just as much work into the show as his fans would expect him to—i.e., zero. David admitted during a show in April that he doesn’t “put any thought” into his work “whatsoever,” claiming that he’s not an “intellectual” but “an idiot from Brooklyn.”
Larry David’s A Conversation With Larry David tour begins September 20 in Denver, Colorado, and ends December 5 in Hollywood, Florida.
The 77-year-old comedian got his start in stand-up before landing writing jobs at Saturday Night Live and lesser-known ripoff Fridays. Larry David’s big break wouldn’t come until 1989 when he and fellow comedian Jerry Seinfeld sold a pilot to NBC called The Seinfeld Chronicles. The pilot spawned Seinfeld, one of the most beloved and commercially successful sitcoms, launching David’s career into the stratosphere.
While Seinfeld was a tour-de-force, Larry David was strictly involved behind the scenes. The sardonic David wouldn’t appear regularly before a camera until HBO debuted Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2000. Curb would be Larry David’s main creative outlet for the next 24 years until this new tour.
With Curb now off the air, A Conversation With Larry David may be fans’ only chance to see their favorite grouch in person. Provided, of course, they don’t decide to go bowling instead. Tickets for A Conversation With Larry David are on sale at LarryDavidTour.com.
