Ted Danson thought ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ absolutely ‘sucked’: ‘I felt sorry’ for Larry David

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his wife, Mary Steenburgen, appeared on the sitcom, they watched the very first episode and “thought it absolutely sucked.”“I’ve told this story before, but we watched the pilot of ‘Curb,'” Danson said on his SiriusXM podcast “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” on Wednesday.“Mary thought it was great.

I thought it sucked. I thought it absolutely sucked and I felt sorry for my new friend, Larry David.”Danson explained that to be “encouraging” to David, 77, who created, wrote and starred in “Curb,” he promised the fellow actor that he and Steenburgen, 71, would play themselves on the show.“And in that sort of idiocy, I ended up being part of something that changed my life,” Danson said.

Danson played a fictionalized version of himself on over 30 episodes of “Curb” during its 12-season run that stretched from 2000 to 2024.Steenburgen, who wed Danson in 1995, was in six episodes of the show.

Like her husband, she portrayed a fictionalized version of herself.“‘Curb’ really did change my life because it reinvigorated my desire to be funny,” Danson explained to Smoove, 58.In “Curb,” Smoove played Larry’s housemate Leon Black.