Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld, creator of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, and super-awesome University or Maryland alum, apparently has an admirer and it's Kaye West. Kanye developed a pilot for a new show for HBO that has been created in the mold of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The improvised show stars Mr. West and was directed by Larry Charles (not to be confused with Larry David).
However, don't get too excited because this new show isn't all it's cracked up to be. In an article on RollingStone.com
Charles implied the improvised show has been shelved, though a pilot has been shot. “What Kanye West said to me the first time, he said, ‘I’m the black Larry David,’ ” Charles said. “[The new show] was really good, but again I think it was too hardcore for HBO. … HBO doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to black shows and I felt like that may have had something to do with it also. I don’t see a lot of shows about that experience at all.”
Kanye is "the black Larry David" huh? I'll give him the fact that he has personal characteristics that are very similar to Curb's fictional Larry David. They're both very over-the-top, exaggerating, quick to upset, and funny. Maybe this could be pretty sweet. Also, I can't figure out what the show being "too hardcore for HBO" entails. Did he took this concept and go completely over the top with it?
Will this show ever see the flashing lights of day? Who knows?
I wonder what Larry thinks about this whole thing? Maybe he'll do an episode about it with the Loretta and Leon Black.
Until then, we can brainstorm names for it. Curb Your Arrogance? Curb Your College Education?

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