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For more than two decades, Curb Your Enthusiasm has been a television comedy staple that everyone loves. A dark comedy that resonated with fans sadly ended after twelve seasons. While it’s hard to believe that Larry David’s wild, rule-breaking masterpiece will no longer entertain us, we can always go back to feel the nostalgia of laughing a bit too hard and cringing a bit too often.

As we have bid our goodbyes to Curb Your Enthusiasm, here are three reasons why the iconic show will be missed more than we realize.

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Let’s start with the obvious. When it comes to Larry David’s character, there’s simply no other character on television like him. Through Curb Your Enthusiasm, he gave us a version of himself that said and did what most of us only think in fleeting moments.

Exclusive: Emmy winner Jb Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm) is set to produce a comedic animated series based on the video game High On Life.

The actor, who launched his production outfit Alternate Side Productions last year, hasn’t officially been cast in the development project but we hear there’s a good chance he will.

High On Life is a comedic first-person shooter game with action-adventure and Metroidvania elements. It takes place in a science fiction world which features talking guns and sees humanity’s fate in jeopardy after an alien cartel discovers that humans are the most potent drug in the cosmos. Smoove is one of the key voice cast in the video game, which has also featured the voices of Jack Black, Susan Sarandon and Thomas Middleditch.

The development is underway between Alternate and Squanch Games and Striker Entertainment. Alternate Side Productions will serve as executive producers with...

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Curb Your Enthusiasm ended in April after 25 years, one special, 12 seasons, and 120 pretty, pretty, pretty good episodes. While the show follows the misanthropic adventures of Larry David (Larry David), his friend Leon Black (J.B. Smoove) and his friend Jeff’s (Jeff Garlin) wife Susie Greene (Susie Essman) are two fan favorites. With the show coming to an end (and Emmy season approaching) we asked Smoove and Essman to watch back their first and final scenes on Curb. Susie’s first appearance is in “The Pants Tent,” Season 1 Episode 1. “I look so young,” says Essman of the 2000 episode. It’s a very brief appearance — you don’t get a sense of her filthy mouth or her outlandish fashion. Essman shares, “[Larry] hired me not for that scene, he hired me for the scene later on that season for the episode called ‘The Wire’…I just destroy Jeff and scream and yell and curse.

After 12 seasons and 24 years, HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” aired its final episode in April. But J.B. Smoove, who has played Larry David‘s housemate Leon Black since 2007, wasn’t sure how to feel on the last day of filming. “It was definitely a sad day,” he tells us, “but it’s also a day of being on the fence about what’s really gonna happen.” Why? Because star/producer David had taken off “six years between seasons” before, and so Smoove still had hope it wasn’t over. “We don’t know what this man’s thinking half the time,” he jokes. Watch our exclusive video interview above.

Smoove is already an Emmy winner for starring on the short form series “Mapleworth Murders” in 2021, and now he’s looking for his first nomination for “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” where he’s competing in the category of Best Comedy Supporting Actor.

Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm is often described in mainstream media as a cringe comedy series. David’s sitcom evokes laughter from situations that create social awkwardness, self-depreciation, or guilty pleasure. Over the years, audiences have come to love David’s type of comedy, but it is undeniable that the Seinfeld creator had crossed the line with a few jokes. David recently dismissed the critics of the series who called it cringeworthy.

Larry David in a still from Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s 12th season

Curb Your Enthusiasm premiered its twelfth and final season in 2024, with the finale episode airing on April 7, 2024. The series ran from 2000 to 2011 for eight consecutive seasons and resumed in 2017 with the ninth season.

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If Larry David had it his way, there would be no references to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” being a “cringe comedy” in conversations about the show’s legacy.

The creator and star of the long-running HBO comedy joked “when people call it ‘cringe comedy,’ I want to wring their neck,” at the PaleyFest LA 2024 panel for the 12th and final season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (which also doubled as the show’s Emmys FYC event) on April 18.

The controversial subject had come up when Jb Smoove, who plays Leon Black on the show, explained how calling something “Curb-y” or “such a ‘Curb’ moment” has become part of the pop culture lexicon in the same way people say they feel like they’re in “The Twilight Zone.” “I hear it all the time, because there are moments where you are fucking cringing,” said the comedian. “Larry has found those moments, and he remembers them,...

For all the Larry David fans out there, the moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived. Curb Your Enthusiasm just wrapped up its 12-season journey.

First airing in 2000, the show follows the life of Larry David (a well-known television writer and producer). Throughout the series, he finds himself in all sorts of mishaps and funny situations with his friends and famous colleagues in Los Angeles. Now, the finale aired recently, treating us to one final round of cringe-inducing encounters and social blunders.

Larry David in a still from Curb Your Enthusiasm (1999)

So, while the ride may be over, the laughs from Curb Your Enthusiasm will stick with us for a long time to come. What sets this finale apart is its surprising twist, which might have pleased fans of Seinfeld — the show David also had a hand in creating.

Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Finale Rescued Seinfeld‘s Legacy

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[This story contains major spoilers from the series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm, “No Lessons Learned.”]

And, that’s a wrap on Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.

The series finale of the Emmy-winning HBO improv comedy kicked off with a big circle back to how the final season began, with the ensemble heading to Atlanta to support Larry David (played by series creator-star David) in his trial.

For a refresher: Season 12 opened with Larry getting arrested for violating a 2021 voting law in Georgia when he gave Leon Black’s (Jb Smoove) Auntie Rae (played by Ellia English) a glass of water while she was waiting in line to vote. Larry didn’t know about the law, but he became a liberal hero anyway, with the likes of Stacey Abrams, Bruce Springsteen and Sienna Miller becoming his adoring new fans.

An unfortunate issue with a replacement lawn jockey, however, led to Larry pleading not guilty to obstructing the election process...

Get ready to “say farewell to a beloved icon.” One of TV’s longest-running comedies of all time, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” is sailing off into the sunset after 24 years and 12 seasons. Hey now, that’s pretty, pretty, pretty good! The series finale, titled “No Lessons Learned,” will wrap up the storyline involving Larry David‘s court case in Atlanta, Georgia in which he’s on trial for giving water to a woman waiting in line to vote. Read on to see how to watch or stream the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” series finale.

The official synopsis for the last episode reads: “Larry finds himself back in Atlanta, where he meddles in Richard’s love life and reveals a big secret about Cheryl.” Watch the trailer above. David is expected to be joined in the finale by fellow cast members Jeff Garlin as Jeff Greene, Cheryl Hines as Cheryl David, Susie Essman as Susie Greene,...

HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is so effective at creating a plausible reality for Larry David‘s eponymous character that one could be forgiven for assuming the entire series is simply shot in pre-existing locations. While the show has unquestionably made hilarious use of dozens of Los Angeles locations over its 12 seasons, some of its most recognizable environments are sets that have been carefully designed and decorated to express character.

The guest house in which Larry’s permanent roommate, Leon Black (Jb Smoove), lives is a case in point, and its design is a subtle blend of Larry and Leon’s personalities since it’s Larry’s property but, for all practical purposes, Leon has taken it over. “The big furniture is all Larry’s,” set decorator Eden Barr told IndieWire, “but Leon has ‘Leon-ed’ it up with things that make it his happy place.” To that end, the guest...

The plot from this season’s Curb Your Enthusiasm has captured the attention on the state of Georgia’s top elections official.

The premiere episode of the final season for the HBO improv comedy featured star-creator Larry David being arrested for violating the state’s election integrity law after giving his friend Leon Black’s (Jb Smoove) aunt (played by Ellia English) a bottle of water while she waited in line to vote during a hot day in Atlanta. Larry (played by David) — whose mugshot invoked Donald Trump’s, when the former president was arrested in Georgia — is now facing a looming trial on the series.

The premiere storyline has been hanging over the entirety of the final season, which wraps with its series finale this Sunday.

The storyline also must have made its way to the State Capitol, because last month Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sent a...

As “Curb Your Enthusiasm” prepares to bid farewell after a 24-year run and 12 seasons on HBO, star J.B. Smoove argues there’s one mystery left unsolved that he’d love to see get the spin-off treatment: What was Leon Black up to before he met Larry David?

“I’d be a fool to say I wouldn’t be open to a spin-off,” Smoove told TheWrap. “I think this dude has levels to him. We don’t know what he does when he’s not with Larry, we don’t know where he came from. I think there’s something to this guy that’s really interesting in how he sees things.”

Leon first appeared in “Curb” during Season 6 when he decides to take refuge at Larry and Cheryl’s house after his family is displaced by a hurricane — and proceeds to never move out. Over the subsequent seven seasons, he...

Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of the funniest shows on TV!

Sadly, Larry David confirmed that the long-running HBO television series would be coming to an end with Season 12, which is about to air its finale on April 7.

The sitcom has been airing since October 15, 2000, created by Larry David, who stars as a fictionalized version of himself. It follows his life as a semi-retired TV writer and producer and features stars like Cheryl Hines as his wife Cheryl, Jeff Garlin as his manager and best friend Jeff Greene, Susie Essman as Jeff’s wife Susie, and J. B. Smoove as Larry’s house mate Leon Black.

We’ve looked through all of the Rotten Tomatoes audience scores for every season, and ranked the whole series from lowest to highest ratings. Two seasons are nearly perfect, with a 97% rating!

Click through to see what the best seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm are,...

Exclusive: We are hearing that Apollo Global Management, which was mulling an offer for National Amusements, the Redstone family company that controls Paramount Global, is no longer considering the move.

Reps for Apollo Global Management, Paramount Global and National Amusements declined comment Monday.

While the situation remains fluid and it may be too early to count Apollo out of the process entirely, sources tell us that the private equity company co-founded by Marc Rowan, Josh Harris and Leon Black is skittish in the wake of the FCC blowing up hedge fund Standard General’s attempted $8.6 billion bid for the Tegna station group — a deal Apollo Global Management was set to provide funding toward. The deal was inked in 2022 and fell apart in May 2023.

Apollo is also an investor in Dune movie studio Legendary Entertainment.

“Capital is not the issue, approval is the commodity; very few people can get FCC approval,...

Until you rewatch the early seasons, it’s easy to forget that Leon Black wasn’t always part of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Larry David‘s permanent houseguest, played to delirious perfection by comedian J.B. Smoove, feels like a supporting player the show couldn’t exist without, yet he joined the cast in Season Six, crashing the David home along with relatives displaced by a hurricane in New Orleans (even though he already lived in L.A.).

Smoove didn’t know back then that after the rest of his fictional family packed up and left,...

Curb Your Enthusiasm has been part of the comedy zeitgeist since it first aired in 2000. The HBO sitcom never quite followed routine season premieres. But fans always welcomed the return of Larry David to their screens. This was the case once more on January 30, 2024, as the cast gathered with stars and producers to celebrate the 12th and final Curb Your Enthusiasm premiere.

(L-r) Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines, Larry David, Susie Essman, and J.B. Smoove attend the Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 12 premiere at DGA Theater Complex on January 30, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines, Larry David, Susie Essman, and J.B. Smoove at the Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 12 premiere | Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO

In early November 2023, Casey Bloys announced Season 12 of Curb Your Enthusiasm. At the time, the HBO CEO explained that David decides whether each season will be the comedy’s last. “[David] knows it’s kind of been an open invitation,...

Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is coming to an end after almost a quarter of a century.

“It’s time,” the famously curmudgeon funny man told me Tuesday at the Season 12 premiere at the DGA in Los Angeles. “Twelve seasons – that’s a lot for a television show – over 24 years. It was time.”

However, David has claimed he was done with the HBO series before, only to return again. “Yeah, I said it before,” David admits. “But I wasn’t 76 when I said it.”

David and his cast, including Cheryl Hines, Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman, J.B. Smoove, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Ted Danson and Vince Vaughn, reunited for the premiere, which included the screening of Episode 1 and Episode 7 of Season 12, and a party at Sunset Tower Hotel.

Where the real Larry David ends and his TV alter ego begins was, no surprise, hard to decipher on the red carpet. At one point,...

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Quick Answer: Currently, new episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm can only be streamed on Max, or although past seasons are available on Hulu with the Max add-on or to rent on Prime Video.

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After twelve seasons and 24 years since Curb Your Enthusiasm first made its television debut, Larry David’s “prettay, prettay good” comedy is finally come to a close (for real this time). Starring David playing a George Costanza-fied,...

An associate of Jeffrey Epstein‘s has been sued in United States District Court in the Southern District of New York for allegedly raping a 16-year-old autistic girl.

Leon Black, the billionaire founder of the hedge fund Apollo Global Management, is accused of raping the then-16-year-old girl in 2002 at Epstein’s townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, according to the complaint. The victim, identified as Jane Doe, is autistic and was born with Mosaic Down Syndrome, a form of Down Syndrome that results in a select number...

Curb Your Enthusiasm fans should start getting their core in shape because comedian Jb Smoove says season 12 of the HBO series is an absolute gut-buster.

“We just finished season 12 four weeks ago, and it’s absolutely going to be crazy,” Smoove dished with Showbiz Cheat Sheet. “I always say Larry [David] tops himself every season, I see it all the time. But you know how Larry does it. He takes the world and puts the world in his head and it makes this amazing show that we all get a chance to watch. Cringeworthy sometimes, because it’s things that he sees that we’ve seen. But he finds a way to make it relatable and make it fun.”

Jb Smoove isn’t totally convinced ‘Curb’ will end with season 12

Curb Your Enthusiasm producers have hinted that the series may end with season 12. But Smoove isn’t totally convinced that creator...

TV fans have a lot to catch up before the 2022 Emmy Awards air on Monday, September 12 — but cord-cutters can rejoice, as you can stream nearly all the nominated series are actually on one platform, HBO Max.

Before the show airs live at 8 Pm Et / 5Pm Pt on NBC, HBO Max is the perfect place to binge watch your favorite programs thanks to leading the pack this year with a whopping 108 nominations (combined with the parent channel HBO, that number jumps to a whopping 140). The majority of the nominations went to...

J.B. Smoove was a rather late addition to the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" cast. He joined the show in its sixth season in 2007, by which time it was already a well-established hit with copious Emmy nominations. When he went in for his audition, Smoove had to make an impression, and he did it in a way that is probably not advisable outside a controlled improv setting.

The threat of physical violence — specifically, a slap to creator and star Larry David's face in a comedy context — is what landed Smoove his role as Leon Black opposite David's fictionalized self on "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Smoove related the story of his audition in an oral history of the show via The Hollywood Reporter, where he said:

"I go in there as Leon. They said, 'Ok, J.B., you're going to improv with Larry directly.' And I had no idea I was going...

It can be hard to write critically about “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” For one thing, after 20 years the show is a bit critic-proof. The audience for “Curb” is locked in at this point; one is on board for the periodic ten-episode journey through well-meaning gripes and grudges, or one is avowedly not. What’s more, the show’s best and worst qualities tend to be unusually entrenched with one another, such that an episode can contain bits that work beautifully and some that fall utterly flat. Were one designing the show now, it’s impossible to imagine coming up with latter-day “Curb” from scratch; its gnarls and knots have accreted over time to build a show that appears entirely congruent with Larry David’s worldview.

And while the show has always been nimble in coming up with new turns of phrase or fresh terms along which to hold an argument, finding...

Like Cosmo Kramer before him, Leon Black (J.B. Smoove) has little direction or skill, yet he’s usually in cushy circumstances. Even when he does slip up, the blowback is minimal, if it exists at all. More often than not, things work out in Leon’s favor, which may be why people are inclined to listen to him, even…...

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (Pcf) 25th Annual New York Dinner took place at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

David Foster, Katharine McPhee, and Andrea Bocelli perform at Pcf's Annual New York Dinner

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The end-of-the-year benefit supported Pcf’s programs and celebrate the millions raised and achievements made in the past quarter-century through Pcf. The charitable organization founded by Mike Milken is dedicated to identifying and funding groundbreaking cancer research programs. The memorable evening welcomed leaders in medicine, top research scientists, business leaders and distinguished New York City socialites. The event raised over $6 Million.

The gala began with a lively cocktail reception. During a lavish dinner party, Mike Milken along with celebrity host Whoopi Goldberg gave a special presentation on Pcf’s recent accomplishments. There was also a live auction for various unique experiences as well as investment in Young Investigators who are changing the...

Wall Street billionaire Leon Black allegedly pushed a New Jersey model into a “backbend” over a massage table in disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and raped her in 2002, new court documents claim.

The unidentified woman makes her harrowing allegation in a proposed amended complaint filed Monday by lawyers for former Russian model Guzel Ganieva, another alleged victim already suing Black for defamation in New York.

Black, the co-founder of Apollo Global Management, resigned from his private equity firm in March amid revelations he paid Epstein an eye-popping $158 million...

J.B. Smoove celebrated his Creative Emmy Award win for Outstanding Actor In a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for Mapleworth Murders by teasing what’s ahead on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm when it returns in Oct.

“What I can say is that it’s going to be another amazing season. Season 11 is something else,” Smoove, who portrays Leon Black in the hit comedy series, told Deadline at the Creative Emmy Awards on Sunday. “Where does Larry end this? I don’t know. When I first met Larry in season 6, I asked him when he was going to end this and he said he didn’t know. I do think that him taking those years off to shoot the movie and do the play, he came back with new energy. And, you know what? He’s having a ball. And as long as you’re having fun, it’s effortless.

You may not realize it, but 20 years ago, us mortals were delivered a gift from the higher powers of comedy. I’m referring to Larry David’s hilarious and groundbreaking program, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which premiered on HBO precisely two decades ago on October 15, 2000. To help celebrate the prettaaay, prettaaay good run that the show has had, we at Gold Derby are ranking the 20 best episodes of the Emmy-winning show for its 20th anniversary. Scroll through our photo gallery and see where your favorite episode is ranked.

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The show centers on David, playing a somewhat fictionalized version of himself, and the often inane and neurotic interactions he has with with those that are closest to him. Among the people in this orbit are his much-more-grounded wife Cheryl (Cheryl Hines), his manager/best friend Jeff Greene (Jeff Garlin) and Jeff’s wife, Susie Greene (Susie Essman...

On Oct. 15, 2000 HBO’s landmark comedy series “Curb Your Enthusiasm” debuted, introducing the world to the idiosyncrasies of the genius comedic mind of “Seinfeld” co-creator Larry David. Over the series’ 10 seasons and 100 episodes, David has played a hilariously exaggerated version of himself, a proud “social assassin” who’s often on the outs with friends and strangers for his strong, brutally honest opinions about everyday life and the ridiculousness of society.

“Curb” quickly followed on the heels of David’s 1999 pseudo-documentary “Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which chronicled his return to standup years after wrapping “Seinfeld.” In that special and on all 10 seasons of the show, David has been joined by Jeff Garlin as his manager Jeff Greene and Cheryl Hines as his wife Cheryl David, who earned an Emmy nomination for her role in 2006. Susie Essman and J.B. Smoove round out the cast as Jeff’s riotous spouse Susie and...

You may not realize it, but 20 years ago, us mortals were delivered a gift from the higher powers of comedy. I’m referring to Larry David’s hilarious and groundbreaking program, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which premiered on HBO precisely two decades ago on October 15, 2000. To help celebrate the prettaaay, prettaaay good run that the show has had, we at Gold Derby are ranking the 20 best episodes of the Emmy-winning show for its 20th anniversary. Scroll through our photo gallery and see where your favorite episode is ranked.

The show centers on David, playing a somewhat fictionalized version of himself, and the often inane and neurotic interactions he has with with those that are closest to him. Among the people in this orbit are his much-more-grounded wife Cheryl (Cheryl Hines), his manager/best friend Jeff Greene (Jeff Garlin) and Jeff’s wife, Susie Greene (Susie Essman), who is always at least...

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In 2003, journalist Vicky Ward wrote a colorful and lengthy profile of millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein for Vanity Fair. Back before Epstein became heavily embroiled in a sex-trafficking ring that sent him to jail more than once, Epstein was a mere financial mastermind with his hands deep in working with some of the world's most high-profile businessmen. The profile, which features much of the content also depicted in Netflix's Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich documentary, just barely touches on Epstein's history of women. That story will play out more on screen, but it bears noting that Ward said years later that she wanted to go into more detail about allegations against Epstein in her Vanity Fair piece, but was blocked by her editors. She said she had on-the-record allegations from three accusers who said they were involved in a sex scandal with Epstein. Vanity Fair's...

Introducing a new central character to a well-established program is one of the hardest things to pull of in television, but J.B. Smoove managed to do it flawlessly when he joined “Curb Your Enthusiasm” as Leon Black. He says in our recent webchat (watch the video above and below) that Leon fit in right away because “I think Larry David needed another foil. He needed someone to shake things up a little bit.” But he also points out that his approach to playing Leon is very central to making it all come together. “It’s like walking on a tightrope with no net and it fit me perfectly. [Leon] is an amazing presence because you don’t know which way he’s gonna go.”

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After working in various projects as an actor and stand-up comedian for years, Smoove served as a writer on “Saturday Night Live...

Following the season finale of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Sunday night, actor J.B. Smoove, who plays Larry David’s perpetual house guest Leon Black, joined Variety on Instagram live Sunday night to discuss the last episode of Season 10.

Smoove joined the show in its sixth season as the brother of Vivica A. Fox’s character; when her family is displaced by a hurricane, they come to stay with Larry and Cheryl. The family eventually leaves, but Leon stays behind and has become Larry’s sounding board in subsequent seasons. Asked why the character keeps Leon around, Smoove mused, “We’re the yin and yang. He needs someone to bounce things off of. Once Cheryl left, he needed someone to fill that void. And plus, Leon refused to leave anyway.”

Smoove revealed he was a huge fan of the show even before he was cast, and remains such an admirer that he...

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (Pcf) hosted the 2018 New York Dinner at the Restaurant Daniel at 60 East 65th Street in New York City and raised $11 million dollars to support the foundation.

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The highly anticipated Dinner at Daniel was an exquisite culinary experience featuring a special guest performance by Grammy Award winners Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo. The memorable evening welcomed leaders in medicine, top research scientists and distinguished New York City socialites to explore refined European cuisine, world-class wines and the gracious hospitality at Restaurant Daniel in support of the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

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Entertainment Studios boss Byron Allen is seriously interested in buying Tribune Media, The New York Post reports.

Allen shelled out $300 million for the Weather Channel in April, and he’ll be up against three other bidders for Tribune. It’s the company’s second go-round on the auction block.

The FCC blocked Tribune’s sale to Sinclair Broadcasting three months ago in what was to be a $3.9 billion deal. The market cap for Tribune, which includes New York-based Wpix-tv and Chicago’s Wgn, is at $3.4 billion.

Tom Hicks Jr., the head of private equity firm Hicks Equity Partners, and head of America First, a super Pac connected with President Trump, has submitted a joint bid for Tribune with Cerberus Capital. The Post reports that Allen’s rival bid has backing from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.

Also vying for Tribune Media is Nexstar Media Group and Leon Black’s Apollo Global Management.

Comedian, actor and author J.B. Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm) has signed a talent holding and development deal with 20th Century Fox TV. The pact calls for Smoove to develop, potentially star in, and executive produce a comedy series under his Four Square miles Inc banner. He may also develop and executive produce additional projects under the deal, with casting in other existing comedy and drama projects possible as well.

“Nobody makes me laugh harder than Jb Smoove,” said 20th Century Fox Television President of Creative Affairs Jonnie Davis. “His work on Curb or his interviews with Howard Stern – you can’t deny his amazing comedic pov! He’s a gifted writer, comedian and actor we are so lucky to have him in a deal at the studio.”

Smoove is currently filming the upcoming season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm in his regular role of Leon Black. He also recently...

20th Century Fox TV has signed comedian and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Jb Smoove to a talent holding and development deal.

Under the deal, Smoove will develop, potentially star in, and executive produce a comedy series under his Four Square Miles Inc banner. He may also develop and executive produce additional projects under the deal, with casting in other existing comedy and drama projects possible as well.

Smoove is well known for his role as Leon Black on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which is currently filming its 10th season. He also just wrapped filming on Marvel Studio’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” where he has a starring role alongside Tom Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal.

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Smoove also has his nationwide “Lollygagging” theatre standup tour next year.

“Nobody makes me laugh harder than Jb Smoove,...

Who do you think will be nominated at the Emmys for Best Comedy Supporting Actor this year? Alec Baldwin (“Saturday Night Live”) is the defending champ, but he faces a competitive field in 2018. Gold Derby has hosted exclusive web chats with 11 of this year’s candidates, with a number of possible first-time nominees who could challenge past Emmy winners. Click the links below to be taken to their full interviews.

Louie Anderson (“Baskets”): Anderson plays Christine Baskets, the put-upon mother of twin sons (Zach Galifianakis). He won this prize for the role in 2016 and was nominated again in 2017. In addition, he won two Daytime Emmys (1997-1998) for voicing characters in the animated series “Life with Louie.” (Click here to be taken to his full interview)

Anthony Carrigan (“Barry”): Carrigan plays NoHo Hank, a bald, tattooed Chechen thug with a heart of gold and a penchant for American pop culture.

“When I started doing stand-up the first thing I ever did was take an improv class in 1992,” reflects “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star J.B. Smoove. In our recent webchat (watch the exclusive video above), he says “who would know that I’d put that little tool in my tool box? That I’d be in the greatest improvised show in television history?”

Smoove joined “Curb Your Enthusiasm” in Season 6, playing Leon Black, the confident uninvited house guest of Larry David. His brazen energy and unlikely companionship with Larry has made Leon a fan favorite character. In 2017 a Leon Black book was published and Season 9 marked Smoove’s first as a series regular. Smoove is not taking anything for granted: “I could have been written out just as easy as I was written in. Although I thought I was anchored in because the characters of Larry and Leon have made great on-screen chemistry.

Prostate Cancer Foundation (Pcf), a nonprofit organization founded by Michael Milken dedicated to identifying and funding groundbreaking cancer research programs, recently hosted the 2017 New York Dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street New York.

Whoopie Goldberg at the Prostate Cancer Foundation 2017 New York Dinner

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Legendary actress, comedian, and television host Whoopi Goldberg served as guest host for the event. The evening concluded with a stunning performance by Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer Jennifer Hudson. Proceeds from the event, which raised $18 million, will support the partnership between Pcf and the Department of Veterans Affairs (Va) to provide precision oncology to all veterans by establishing eleven centers of excellence. By providing access to their more than 9 million patient records, Pcf researchers will be able to discover new and better treatments that will impact all prostate cancer patients. The evening was the organization’s second largest fundraising night.

Notable attendees included: Michael and Lori Milken,...

2017-10-02T07:03:00-07:00'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Treads Dangerous Territory

Most people don't remember the 1989 incident in which Iran's religious leader called for the murder of author Salman Rushdie. Larry David hopes that fans of Curb Your Enthusiasm do, though, because the incident is the inspiration for the joke that drives the plot of the series' long-awaited season nine. Fortunately for David, there's plenty of worldwide fear of Islamic extremism still around, so Curb can still mine it for laughs. Read about the controversial beginning to Curb's season below.

Via The Hollywood Reporter.

[Warning: This story contains spoilers from the season nine premiere of Curb Your Enthusiasm, "Foisted."]

Curb Your Enthusiasm is about finding the funny in subject matters most others wouldn't dream of touching. After Sunday's long-awaited season nine premiere, consider that mission accomplished.

Larry David returned as TV alter ego Larry David and in one jam-packed episode, the HBO comedy caught viewers up on what Larry has been...

In the six years since Curb Your Enthusiasm's last episode, Larry David's distaste for everyday minutiae has only sharpened. The hilarious new Season Nine trailer unfolds like a greatest hits package. The famous crank angrily slaps an almost-empty shampoo bottle, becomes outraged over a broken shoelace, gets into a verbal altercation with a judge and tells a sobbing woman at a funeral to "shut up."

In what could be the funniest scene, David bickers with an office employee (Portlandia's Carrie Brownstein) for taking two days off work for constipation.

Arrested Development alumna Jessica Walter is adding another mother of a role to her resume.

The actress will guest-star during a Season 3 episode of The Odd Couple as Felix’s mom, EW.com reports.

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When Walter’s Meredith is unable to host Christmas, Felix goes into a frenzy to prepare the Unger family traditions.

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* The new season of Sesame Street will premiere Saturday, Jan. 7, at 9 am on HBO. Plus, the all-new holiday special Once Upon a Sesame Christmas airs Friday,...

Looks like “Curb Your Enthusiasm” might have to get started without Larry David. HBO released a video Friday announcing that Season 9 of the series had begun shooting, and despite the five-year gap between seasons, it seems that David still isn’t ready for his close-up. Luckily, the comedic talents of J.B. Smoove are on full display in the video, as Smoove reveals that his character Leon Black is returning, and attempts to draw David out of his trailer. Also Read: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen to Return for 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Season 9 “Get your ass out, Larry, come on!

Doug Your Enthusiasm is a hilarious mashup of the 1990s cartoon series Doug and the HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm. The video is Nsfw as it contains some foul language, but when the two very different series are combined it is pretty damn entertaining. Doug Funnie takes on the role of Larry David and Skeeter is used as Leon Black. If you're a fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm, your going to love the scene that they reenact. ...

Just when Larry David's cantankerous sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm needed a boost, J.B. Smoove swooped in to bring new life to the show as our (anti)hero's freeloading roommate Leon Black. As the cast and crew of Curb Your Enthusiasm prepare to produce a fan-demanded revival run of new episodes, Smoove sat down with us to sing the show's praises in an exclusive '100 Greatest TV Shows' video.

"There's a certain type of person who loves Larry, who loves Curb Your Enthusiasm, because Larry hits on some very vital points in his show,...

After selling his Beverly Hills mansion for a whopping $40 million, Tom Cruise is looking toward the Sunshine State for his next home. The Mission Impossible star's Los Angeles compound, which he shared with Katie Holmes during their six-year marriage, is currently in escrow after selling for $40 million, a real estate source tells People. Cruise bought the property in 2007 for $30.5 million. For his next home, the globetrotting actor is looking to continue planting roots in Florida, specifically in the city of Clearwater where Scientology’s headquarters are located. "Tom has long planned to leave L.A.," says a source. "He doesn't...

After selling his Beverly Hills mansion for a whopping $40 million, Tom Cruise is looking toward the Sunshine State for his next home. The Mission Impossible star's Los Angeles compound, which he shared with Katie Holmes during their six-year marriage, is currently in escrow after selling for $40 million, a real estate source tells People. Cruise bought the property in 2007 for $30.5 million. For his next home, the globetrotting actor is looking to continue planting roots in Florida, specifically in the city of Clearwater where Scientology’s headquarters are located. "Tom has long planned to leave L.A.," says a source. "He doesn't...

Tom Cruise has decided to leave Los Angeles because he's saying goodbye to the estate he called home for nearly a decade. Our real estate spies tell us ... Tom has sold the 10,000 square foot mansion he shared with Katie Holmes for $40 million. He was asking $45 mil but no takers at that price. Tom still cashed in ... he bought the pad from real estate guru Kurt Rappaport -- who owed it back in 2007 -- for $32.5 mil.