Life imitating art irritating life imitating art.

The premise of Curb Your Enthusiasm, according to James Kaplan's 2004 profile of Larrry David in The New Yorker, is that:

David's character is a semi-retired sitcom mogul who ambles through his inordinately comfortable life, routinely managing to annoy or infuriate everyone around him. This season, some of those people will include the blind, the physically handicapped, and the mentally challenged ... David has a sardonic, slightly depressive presence onscreen, and is quite natural playing his worst self. Some of his finest moments are when he gets into arguments—arguments that he always loses—with children.

In this week's episode, David accidentally urinates on a picture of Jesus, the urine is mistaken for a tear, and in the end, he manages to annoy and infuriate everyone around him. So it goes ... or would have, had he not also managed to annoy and infuriate conservatives who don't watch the show. The Anchoress wants to know:

Would he piss on an image of Obama?

Absolutely. Next question.

Would he piss on an image of Obama?

Absolutely. Crying guy, would you like to say something?

Good people hurt innocent people every day.

Larry David's not good people.

Eventually, their better nature takes over.

He doesn't have one.

They think about how such a cruel and disrespectful act might hurt those they know.

Are you sure you're talking about Larry David here? Because I'm not. Anyone else?

I’ve never seen this show, does anyone know if the assistant is recognizably ethnic? Is this “brave” comedian also taking a swipe at Hispanic (or for that matter Italian or Irish) piety?

First, when you assume that a housekeeper's Hispanic, that makes you the racist. Second, if you want people to respect what you say, don't tell people that your speculation is based on unadulterated ignorance. Third, if you think anyone other than Larry David would be the punchline of an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, you've proven the validity of my previous sentence.

Moreover, if you've been horrified and offended by what Larry David did then congratulations, he just suckered you into participating in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. You're no longer the audience: you are, in effect, on the show.

Comments

[Ahistoricality]

Is this, in fact, what the show's been angling for all along? Free publicity and the opprobium of ijits?

[cp]

I realized exactly how good Curb Your Enthusiasm was a long time ago. Near the end of Season 1, the episode about the incest survivor group had me laughing uncontrollably despite how uncomfortable the subject naturally was. It reminded me of Alan Alda strutting around Crimes and Misdemeanors saying "If it bends...it's funny. If it breaks...not funny." By the time they got to the point at which the survivors were in group together, sharing their accounts of childhood horrors, I was thinking "This has surely nearly broken by now, but it's still working."

[Gary]

Only Christians would hang their deity over a toilet, easily within splatter range for a man with a medicinally-enhanced stream. So, no, I don't think Larry David would have pissed on Our Lord Obama or any other deities, mostly for lack of opportunity.