After a few fake sequence finales and several other multi-year breaks between seasons — together with one which lasted six years — it’s no marvel that essentially the most frequent query requested forward of Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s twelfth and last season has been, Is this actually the top?
“This time it really feels like it,” HBO‘s head of comedy Amy Gravitt told Deadline at the Curb Season 12 premiere party this week. “This is the most declarative that I’ve skilled it for certain.”
Curb creator, star and govt producer Larry David and fellow govt producer Jeff Schaffer informed HBO brass early on that Season 12 can be the comedy’s last chapter.
“As has always been the case, story-breaking led the decision,” Gravitt mentioned. “So, as they were writing, Larry and Jeff called to say the best version is the final version. It’s hard to argue with that!”
Having been at HBO at 20 years, Gravitt has labored on the event of each present comedy sequence on the community apart from Curb, which premiered again in 2000, two years after the top of Seinfeld, the hit NBC sitcom David co-created with Jerry Seinfeld.
The single-camera HBO followup made folks cringe whereas laughing as Larry David, the character performed by David on the present, “said the things we’ve always wanted to say but never do,” Gravitt mentioned on stage on the premiere.
While David lives as much as his curmudgeon alter ego in his public remarks, he really likes going his present’s premieres, Gravitt mentioned.
“His favorite part is watching the show in the crowd,” she mentioned. “He loves watching the episodes.”
Looking again at Curb’s legacy, “I think it’s always been a Northstar for us,” Gravitt mentioned. “There are so many people that’ve come in who have either worked on the show, proven themselves on the show, or somebody like Issa [Rae], shares as much DNA with Larry, as do some other shows that people keep referencing. Having a strong writer-performer at the center of the show, having those tightly spun episodic stories, I think it really set the bar for what a comedies can be.”
As Curb is coming to an finish, is David considering potential spinoffs?
“I don’t think so, I think he is serious this time,” Gravitt mentioned about David leaving the Curb world behind.
The writer-comedian additionally has not spoken to HBO about one other sequence to observe Curb however the community can be recreation.
“I would love that,” Gravitt mentioned.
Curb‘s last season premiers Sunday, Feb. 4, on HBO and Max.