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Director Larry Charles, a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” vet, knows how to work with this style of confrontational comedy (popular on shows now from “Curb?? to “The Colbert Report”), milking awkward pauses and misunderstandings for all their comedic gold. The lengths Cohen goes to in the effort to actually offend people are staggering; his Southern dinner party doesn’t end until he orders an African-American hooker sent to the plantation house of his hosts...
...finest: Richard Lewis needs a kidney transplant, and Larry and Jeff decide to take the test for compatibility. When both pass, we witness what is, to my knowledge, the most contentious game of eenie-meenie-minie-moe yet played in human history. Have no fear, “Curb?? is still the funniest show on television...
...Carrie Bradshaw is every girl wrapped up in an oversized pink bow, the Larry David of “Curb?? is Michael M. Grynbaum ’07 in a slightly balder, wealthier, more abrasive form. I was desperate; this night of psychological exploration must continue! Stay, I told my lady friends, and discover as much about my psyche as I have ascertained of yours! Premium cable will be our saving grace, a glorious vehicle of mutual understanding. Gender disparities and romantic befuddlement will melt away in the face of HBO original programming...
...girls, of course, immediately left as the closing credits of “Sex” came to an end. As the mournful whimsy of the opening theme music to “Curb?? began, I was alone again with the boys...
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