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We were privileged to live in a time when Larry David was making television.

We will tell our grandchildren more about him

Larry David's presence on our screen is not only a defiance against the system that made him a multi-millionaire, but also a reminder of how to do it right.

Even when it's not at its peak - and this season of "Calm Down" (Hot, Yes and Cellcom TV) was definitely far from it - it's still the greatest of them all

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28/12/2021

Tuesday, 28 December 2021, 08:39 Updated: 08:49

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"Calm Down" Trailer - Season 11 (HBO)

Larry David's presence on our screen is not only a defiance against the system that made him a multi-millionaire, but also a reminder of how to do it right. Even when he is not at his peak - and this season has certainly been far from that - he is still the greatest of them all

At 74, Larry David is still the funniest TV producer in the world. The mehadrin will add that he is the greatest in history. The GOAT of TV comedy. In the current cultural climate, the fact that it is still active, and continues to create new seasons of the masterpiece series "Calm Down", is no less miraculous. Re-watching Netflix in the classic "Seinfeld" episodes he wrote only reinforces this understanding.

In the future we will be able to tell our grandchildren that we saw the "competition" of Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer in real time. Another 100 years will also mark this episode in the rankings of "the greatest television episodes in history." The fact that after 11 seasons and 110 episodes, and another 180 episodes of Seinfeld (including 62 episodes he wrote himself) he continues to surprise and test the limits of human humor - this is one of the greatest gifts our contemporaries have received.

The 11th season of "Calm Down" was not one of the best in the series' history.

To be honest, this was the weakest season in its history.

And yet, it had three or four episodes that met the classic Larry-DVD standard, and as such, they were also the best thing on television in 2021. The fourth episode of the season, in which Larry accidentally soils a robe of a member of the Ko Klux Klan, will be taught in future courses at universities around the world. .

The dialogue between Larry and Seth Rogen (in the role itself) in the sixth episode in which Larry manages to "say 30 crazy things in two minutes" not only does not meet America's strict political-correct rules, but brilliantly mocks them.

It was probably the most refreshing thing our TV has received in years.

Larry David's presence on our screen is not only a defiance against the system that made him a multi-millionaire, but also a reminder of how to do it right.

Even when he is not at his peak - and this season has certainly been far from that - he is still the greatest of them all.

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Alongside Larry David himself comes of course the amazing cast, which recreates the shows each time by impressive improvisations based on the stories Larry brings to the table.

Yes, we will have to mention it again and again - the funniest series on this side of the millennium is not remade, and almost all the dialogues in it are improvised on the spot.

It could not have worked if the series had not been based on talented comedians like Jeff Garlin and Susie Asman, whose destructive relationship continues to issue ripping comedic moments.

The one who went on to rise is J.B. Samov, who plays the character of Leon, the correction of Larry David to the character of Kramer in Seinfeld.

An entire article can be written about the similarities and differences between the characters.

We'll give it up this time.

As always, the season was replete with guest stars.

Albert Brooks, Woody Harrelson and Lucy Lou played laugh-out-loud versions of themselves - while Kylie Cuckoo, Patton Oswalt, Josh Gad and Bill Haider (in the role of the a la Peter Sellers triangle) got into amusing character shoes.

Above all was Tracy Ullman, who pretty much stole the show in the second half of the season.

The British comedian, who became one of the great TV stars of the eighties and even revealed the "Simpson family" to the world, proved at age 60 plus that she is still one of the funniest women in the world.

The dynamic between her and Larry David has been one of the funniest things on screen in the last year.

A talented cast.

Garlin and David (Photo: HBO)

Giant among giants, Larry David is not only one of the greatest comedians in human history, but also the most prominent representative of the Hebrew tribe within one of the most Jewish professions in the world anyway, alongside a mohel and kosher tester. In the final episode of the 11th season of "Calm Down" one of the scenes takes place, without special justification, at the local Holocaust Museum. After almost 300 episodes of "Calm Down" and "Seinfeld" we know that a shoe of a Jew who was murdered in the Holocaust shown in the first act, will return to cause us great embarrassment in the third act. At his advanced age, Larry knows he needs to shock us more than ever to deliver the goods. No one else will do it.

The silly background story that brings Larry's TV character to a situation where he steals the shoes of a Jew who was murdered in the Holocaust and walks with them around Los Angeles "because they are very comfortable" does not matter at all.

We are in the 110th episode of the series, we have long since got rid of the casual viewers who still feel uncomfortable with the extreme embarrassing humor that Larry David provides every episode.

Veteran fans will have to stop watching at this point to wipe the tears of laughter from their eyes.

What other series still makes its audience laugh to tears nowadays at all?

Laugh to tears.

David (Photo: HBO)

There is nothing funny about the Holocaust, and yet we laugh.

After so much time with Larry's work we realize that he is not "laughing at the Holocaust", but laughing at himself.

Ridicules his flawed humanity, the one that prioritizes temporary comfort over the big picture

There is nothing funny about the Holocaust, and yet we laugh. After so much time with Larry's work we realize that he is not "laughing at the Holocaust", but laughing at himself. Ridicules his flawed humanity, the one that prioritizes temporary comfort over the big picture. Just as he does not laugh at blacks, gays, fats or Mormons. The center is always itself, and its inability to fit within the social laws we have established around us. People are people, whether they are rabbis, service cleaners or executives at Netflix. This is the little message that has always been hidden behind Larry David's "Plans for Nothing." In a sense, it may be that his struggle throughout the season to remove fences is a metaphor for the unnecessary fences we surround ourselves with. Though, not sure there is too much to analyze in this silly frame story.

As mentioned, this was probably the weakest season in the history of "Calm Down", and yet, as the minutes ticked by and the final episode came to an end, the oppressive feeling arose that this would be the last time he would enjoy the genius of Larry David.

The enjoyment of the episode mingled with the realization that the continuation of this comedic life enterprise depended on the goodwill of a 74-year-old man who testified to himself that there was nothing he hated in the world more than writing TV series.

This person who has managed to brand himself as a “human hater,” and in fact continues to give humanity the gift of laughter over and over again.

That will never end.

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