Lawrence Gene David is an American comedian, writer, actor, director, and television producer. He and Jerry Seinfeld created the television series Seinfeld, of which David was the head writer and executive producer for the first seven seasons. David gained further recognition for the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which he created and stars in as a semi-fictionalized version of himself. David has received a total of 27 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, as well as three Golden Globe Award nominations. Since 2015, David has made multiple guest appearances on Saturday Night Live, playing 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
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Lawrence Gene David is an American comedian, writer, actor, director, and television producer. He and Jerry Seinfeld created the television series Seinfeld, of which David was the head writer and executive producer for the first seven seasons. David gained further recognition for the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which he created and stars in as a semi-fictionalized version of himself. David has received a total of 27 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, as well as three Golden Globe Award nominations. Since 2015, David has made multiple guest appearances on Saturday Night Live, playing 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. He was voted by fellow comedians and comedy insiders as the 23rd greatest comedy star ever in a 2004 British poll to select \”The Comedian’s Comedian\” and was awarded the Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement by the Writers Guild of America in 2010. David’s family is Jewish. His father’s side moved from Germany to the U. S. during the 19th century, while David’s mother was born into a Polish-Jewish family in Ternopil, now in Ukraine. David graduated from Sheepshead Bay High School, and then from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was a brother in Tau Epsilon Phi in the 1960s, with a bachelor’s degree in history.
While a stand-up comedian, Larry David also worked as a store clerk, limousine driver, and historian. He lived in Manhattan Plaza, a federally subsidized housing complex in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, across the hall from Kenny Kramer, the inspiration for the Cosmo Kramer character in Seinfeld. David then became a writer for and cast member of ABC’s Fridays from 1980 to 1982. He can be heard heckling Michael McKean when McKeans hosted SNL in 1984, and he can be seen in the sketch \”The Run, Throw, and Catch Like a Girl Olympics\” when Howard Cosell hosted the season finale in 1985. In 1989 David teamed up with comedianJerry Seinfeld to create a pilot for NBC called The Seinfeld Chronicles, which became the basis for Seinfeld and reached the top of TV Guide’s list of the 50 greatest TV shows of all time. David left the seventh season of Seinfeld in 1998, but returned to write on friendly terms after the series finale in two years later. In 2008, David made 55 million USD from the original syndication deal from the Seinfeld original syndicated series. He has been paid an estimated 250 million USD in 1998 alone.
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