Larry David’s Cranky Schtick Reaches New Level in HBO Show With Obama

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John Johnson/HBO Larry David has fashioned a celebrated career out of being an irascible, kvetchy malcontent. And after years of honing that abrasive persona on Curb Your Enthusiasm , he employs it for an ever-so-slightly more noble purpose in Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness . A sketch-comedy miniseries produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions that’s timed to the United States’ 250 th birthday and boasts support from the 44 th -commander-in-chief, this seven-part HBO venture takes a simple premise—what if David annoyed people throughout American history?—and hammers viewers over the head with it for thirty minutes at a time. Despite occasional laughs, it more often than not earns dead silence. Read more at The Daily Beast.