, writer
, comedian
and producer
. He is best known as the co-creator (with Jerry Seinfeld
), head writer, and executive producer of the television series Seinfeld
from 1989 to 1996, and for creating the 1999 HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm
, a partially improvised sitcom in which he stars as a semi-fictionalized version of himself.
David's work won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series
in 1993.
Let me tell you something; I do hate myself, but it has nothing to do with being Jewish. (When accused of being a self-loathing Jew; Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 2, Episode 3, "Trick or Treat")
(on not going to his high school prom) I wasn't aware of the prom. I had no idea that it was even going on, not that I would have gone. It's not the kind of thing that would ever occur to me. You would think I would have heard about it in school, but I didn't. (Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Book)
Pretty...pretty...pretty good. (Curb Your Enthusiasm )
This is a sad day for the Emmy's. It is, however, a good day for Larry David. I imagine the wife will be forthcoming tonight. (Accepting an Emmy Award)