Ted Danson was not an early fan of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”.
The Emmy winner, 76, recently told “Curb” star JB Smoove that before she and His wife, Mary SteenbergenAppearing on the sitcom, he watched the first episode and “thought it was absolutely useless.”
“I’ve told this story before, but we watched the pilot of ‘Curb,'” Danson said on his SiriusXM podcast “Where everyone knows your name” On Wednesday.
“Mary thought it was great. I thought it was useless. I thought it was absolutely useless and I felt sorry for my new friend Larry David.
Danson explained that to “encourage” David, 77, who created, wrote and starred in “Curb,” he promised the fellow actor that he and Steenbergen, 71, would play themselves on the show.
Danson said, “And in that kind of stupidity, I became part of something that changed my life.”
Danson played a fictional version of himself in over 30 episodes of “Curb” during its The 12-season run ran from 2000 to 2024.
Steenbergen, who married Danson in 1995, was in six episodes of the show. Like her husband, she painted a fictional version of herself.
“‘Curb’ really changed my life because it rekindled my desire to be funny,” Danson explained to Smoove, 58.
In “Curb”, Smoove played Larry’s housemate Leon Black. The main cast also included David, Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines and Susie Essman.
Last month, Danson came forward “Late Night with Seth Meyers” And talked about how David got her and Steenbergen divorced on the show so he could date Hines’ character.
Danson said, “I’m an actor, I know I’m just pretending, but it didn’t feel like that.”
“I go to work and it’s like, ‘Oh, by the way, you divorced Mary and you’re dating Cheryl.’ “And I had to go home and tell Mary,” Danson recalled. “She understood, too.”
“inside Man” The star continued, “And people we knew, who knew us well, would call after they saw the show and say, ‘Oh my God.’ And Mary would say, ‘Yeah, okay. We decided to announce it on a sitcom.’
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” ran for 120 episodes. The series finale aired on April 7.
danson told parade Before the final episode of “Curb”, the show “revived my desire to be funny because it was so spontaneous.”
“You just showed up and played,” he said. “And so I’m very grateful to Larry David and I love him, even though it’s very painful.”
