Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 7

Curb is my favourite television show and at long last Larry David is back with a new season. It kicked off in america last night.

The sitcom Seinfeld commanded the kind of devotion from up to 20 million fans normally associated with cults or religious sects. It was dubbed the greatest television show of all time, turned its creator and lead actor Jerry Seinfeld into a multimillionaire, and was showered by critical accolades.

The characters have finally reunited after 11 years on Sienfeld.

Curb

Last night, after beating a bare-foot Nick at squash, brother David came around and Nick cooked us a fantastic prawn and spinach spaghetti. After such culinary delights we settled down with a bottle of Reisling to introduce Nick to the joy of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

My good friend Paul got me hooked on this show chronicling the private, often banal world of a (relatively) public man, Larry David the wealthy writer of Seinfeld. The series blurs the lines between reality and fiction, as David (playing himself) and a cast of real and fictional characters are followed around Los Angeles by a ubiquitous camera.

To keep the narrative fresh and spontaneous, Curb Your Enthusiasm is shot without a script; the cast is given scene outlines and often improvise lines as they go. It's made on a shoestring budget but the plots are superb. If you haven't seen it before, do yourself a favour. You'll laugh harder than you knew possible.