Richard Lewis And LD Go Way Back
Love Richard Lewis and Larry David together? What is it about their chemistry? Well, funny enough their on-screen banter has some real-life history to it! They used to be childhood rivals while at sports camp when they were about 12 years old. Richard Lewis spoke to OC Weekly, saying, “I despised the guy and he hated me. It was like Curb Your Enthusiasm, but at 12.” Then a decade later they became friends while doing stand-up and as Richard recalled, “We then traced our childhoods and then it hit me like a ton of bricks! I was like, ‘Ohhhh you’re Larry David from that camp!’ The odds that we would become best friends was so unique and so crazy, it bonded us forever. You can see that on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Ninety-nine percent is me fighting with him because we do it in real life.”
Richard Lewis And LD Go Way Back
Seinfeld’s Premise
Now, everyone famously calls Seinfeld ‘the show about nothing.’ Jerry Seinfeld spoke about the real pitch. Seinfeld said, “The real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it’s the opposite of that.”
Seinfeld’s Premise