Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good: Larry David and the Making of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fully Revised and Updated

Readers can’t curb their enthusiasm for Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good, now fully revised and includes a full insightful episode guide to the entire Curb Your Enthusiasm series

For Larry David, success was no sure thing. A frustrated New York comic who was known to walk off the stage in disgust, David was barely making a living. At least until his friend Jerry Seinfeld asked him to create a new kind of television sitcom for NBC. The result -- Seinfeld -- started slowly but became a gigantic hit. But most people didn’t know that the real genius behind the show was Larry David.

Rich beyond his wildest dreams, David still had something to prove -- and some television boundaries to push. And so he created Curb Your Enthusiasm, the improvised comedy that cast aside political correctness and made for hilarious, cringeworthy TV, a show that dared to relive the disastrous Seinfeld finale and turn it into a triumph.

This second, fully updated edition of Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good offers a complete episode-by-episode guide to the series and recounts David’s early struggle to succeed in television and movies, the creation and development of his hit sitcoms, and his later success starring in the HBO film Clear History and the Broadway hit Fish in the Dark. It also explores Larry’s on- and off-screen relationships with famous pals like Richard Lewis, Ted Danson, and Jerry, Jason, Julia, and Michael. Filled with candor and humor David himself would respect, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good is an essential companion to a comedic force.

Josh Levine is a film and television critic. He is the author of books on the Coen Brothers, David E. Kelly, and Jerry Seinfeld. He lives in Toronto, ON.