On it. mind your own business. how about that? we all think that ship, but larry s just points it out. you know, it s great. it s just material, but. but really, look at these pants pants. bunch of never seen a bunch of like this in my life is like a five inch bunch up i got here. herb your enthusiasm is brilliant. larry took the essence of himself of larry david. i mean, it s not exactly larry, but it s pretty close. and when you get close to the bone, the audience can somehow feel that that s real left the speakerphone. please hold on. you re off the speaker phone. what s the matter with you? i thought i was having a private conversation. i didn t know anybody else was in your car with curb larry gets to be the full completion of himself. there was the person i d like to be, but social mores prevent me from being that way all the time . i a call you back. what what
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Well, well, well, what a baby. what s great about comedy is comedy can t exist unless it s true. you don t laugh unless you know there s an inherent truth to it. god keep forgetting what a freak show this family is until somebody new comes in and looks at us like that. we all are human and fallible and we re crazy and we have foibles and we re all in it together. there s nothing more interesting than the foolishness of the human condition. it takes the comedian to find the moment that helps people laugh at themselves . if you re lucky in life, you will have seen it. done it eight in it, you know? all of it. and now you can relive it through storytelling and from somebody s point of view all over again. life is not that complicated. you get up, you go to work. eat three meals. you take one good back to bed. what s the mystery?
You ve done it. there is so much comedy in the little details of life. it s just taking a magnifying glass and throwing it out to the audience. that s sort of my job to think about stuff that a lot of us are too busy for most of the time. little things that occur to us. we have universal ground. you know, whatever. did you ever belch and almost puke? we think that we re alone and then a comedian steps on stage and said, have you ever noticed boom? it explodes. but in that moment we all connect, which is an amazing charge. really it s kind of an adrenaline rush to connect on that kind of level. that we have to fight. these battles were all alone in the bathroom alone. whatever goes wrong, you have to handle it. never flush the toilet in a big party and the water starts coming up. this is the most frightening moment in the life of a human being. it s an illumination on something that was right in front of you.
Feed it closed captioning brought to you by investing help call 1 807 100020 invention idea but don t know what to do. next call invent help today they can help you get started with your idea. call now. 807 100020. people, stupid. this is the others ever noticed. is it yourself? does anybody else hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? wouldn t it make more sense if it was the other way around? but then if that was true, you wouldn t be a proctologist to be an astronaut. there s so many things that are distasteful in life and stupid. and there are these rules that everybody has to follow. it s tedious, so they deserve lampooning. awful morning like i get it this morning, i put my maxi pad on adhesive side up. have, um, on