Current Events > Curb Your Enthusiasm season 11 premiers tomorrow, takes place post-COVID

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*premieres

David and Schaffer began plotting season 11 back in January 2020, two month before the pandemic hit. When life changed during the spread of COVID-19, "we had to throw out stuff, like, 'Oh, that's not going to work,'" says Schaffer. "We were writing remotely, which was an interesting way to do it for us. We were used to putting stuff up on the dry erase board together. So it was just Larry and I on FaceTime, and every session started the same way, with Larry looking around on the ground for an outlet and complaining, 'Why aren't there shoulder-level outlets?'"

The duo soon found themselves trying to figure out how much of the real world to reflect in theirs. "We had to make a choice: 'What's the weather going to look like in a year and a half?' Because we knew [season 11] would be coming out this fall," the showrunner explains. "And the best way to think about the choice was: 'Hey, do you want extras wearing masks in every scene? Or do you not?' Optimists that we are, we decided to write this season in a world where COVID has happened, but we're through the other side. Masks are gone, life is normal, but amazingly enough, people are still rude, selfish, and problematic."

Also factoring into their creative calculus was the notion that fans had already imagined scenes of germophobe Larry who really was the original social distancer using the pandemic as an excuse to remove himself from most obligations. "If everyone and their grandmother is saying things like, 'I can't wait to see Larry David wearing a mask and using COVID to avoid people,' why would we do exactly that?" says Schaffer. "That's not a unique story that's just group think. In this season of Curb, COVID has come and it has gone, and we definitely talk about it and do some stories about it, but in a different way that people wouldn't expect."

https://ew.com/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm-season-11-preview/

Guest stars:

Woody Harrelson as himself. "We didn't realize what a big fan of the show he was. He came in and it was just like, 'Oh, he knows his stuff!' He's seen every episode. He just slid right in and was going at it with Larry. Larry's often at his best when he needs something from someone and you can really see all the shades of the lying color wheel."

* Kaley Cuoco as Heidi. "She's a doctor who shows exceeding amounts of patience with Larry. She is playing the girlfriend of Freddy Funkhouser [Vince Vaughn], and as happens to all things Funkhouser, when Larry gets involved, things get more complicated and then they go south. She said she hadn't done a lot of improv before she came in, and she must've been lying. She fit in perfectly it was like she'd been on the show forever."

* Lucy Liu as herself. "Lucy is in our premiere. She sees a side of Larry that she can't unsee."

* Seth Rogen as himself. "He is working on a not-well-thought-out Viking comedy movie called Eric the Yellow."

* Tracey Ullman as Irma Kostroski. "Tracey has a pretty significant role this season. It's amazing she hasn't been on the show already. Working with her was a masterclass. On set, she made it her job to crack Larry up, and she was successful in making him blow takes in almost every scene."

* Bill Hader as ? "We had a super specific, super complicated role that we didn't even know if it was going to be able to be pulled off. And then we thought about Bill, we were like, 'Oh, of course! He can do this.' There are maybe three people on the planet that could've done this and two of them are dead."

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Oh?

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So were not going to address the coffee shop burning down due to hand sanitizer?
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"How's a guy get in the pool, don't you have a fence?"

lmao

Good episode
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oh SNAP i did not know this. thanks TC!

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She plopped

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Yeah shit was fucking hilarious lol great start to the season

Giant_Aspirin posted...

oh SNAP i did not know this. thanks TC!

np homie!

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In never saw season one, in fact this topic is first ive heard of it

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Great opener. Leon's bit about the ostracised birds was amazing.

Was definitely expecting the blackmail auditionee to walk into the glass door at the end, though.

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first episode is good

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