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-You know, if I -- if I were a different person,
I might have been touched by that.
[ Laughter ]
But, no. No. -When you come to New York
and walk around New York, are you --
I mean, you're probably the biggest celebrity.
-Well, I'm quite beloved. Yes. Yeah. Um...
-Do people want to stop and talk to you?
-You know...
[ Laughter ] -They do.
-Well, what's interesting
is that people are very nice to me in New York.
-Yeah. -One time, I was, um --
I was supposed to be on "Letterman,"
and the car wasn't there to pick me up.
And so I was late, and I went out into the street,
like, looking for a cab, and I'm looking around and --
And all of a sudden, a car pulls up.
"Hey, Larry, where you going?"
I said, "You know, I'm going to the West Side."
"Come on in. Get in."
-A stranger just --
-A stranger picked me up, took me to the show.
-Aren't you worried getting into a car with strangers?
-No, no. -No, you don't care.
-What, the worst that could happen. What? They kidnap me?
So what? I'd like that. That would be fun.
I think -- I think a little kidnap sojourn...
-Yeah. -...would be a lot of fun.
It'd be different. You know, life's so boring.
-Yeah. -You know?
-And all of a sudden you're kidnapped.
"Oh, my God! Look at this! I'm kidnapped!"
-Well, that's one way to look at it.
-I'm in a shack in new Jersey.
I'm hardly getting any food. Hey.
"How you doing, kidnapper? Hey!
By the way, no one's paying a nickel for me.
I just want you to know." Yeah.
-Congratulations on 12 seasons of "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
Oh, my goodness.
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It's phenomenal. It's a funny, funny, funny show.
And you've announced that this is the final season.
-Yes, yes.
-What is it like -- Doing the TV version,
your character's name is Larry David
and then the actual Larry David.
Are you becoming the same person?
-We're melding, yes. We're melding.
For example, um, the old Larry --
Ask me if I want to have lunch. -Yeah.
-Ask me. Yeah. -Hey, you want to grab lunch?
-Uhh...
Ehh...
Meh...
Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah. -Okay, great.
-Now ask the --
-The new Larry. -The new Larry. Yeah.
-Hey, you want to grab lunch? -No.
[ Laughter ]
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-Why -- Why do I want to have lunch with you?
What a dumb question. No, I don't want to have lunch.
No way. -It gets you out of things.
-Yeah. It's great. Yeah.
-You're becoming the Larry David persona.
-I'm becoming, which is fantastic.
-What are you going to do after "Curb Your Enthusiasm"?
Do you have any plans?
-Um...big.
-[ Laughs ] Yeah. -Yeah.
-You know, um, thinking maybe doing some volunteer work.
Soup -- Soup kitchen. -Really?
-Yeah. Working in a soup kitchen.
Making a big --
Making a big pot of clam chowder, you know?
-Yeah. Like a big one. -Yeah. And I shuck.
I shuck the clams myself. -You do?
-Yeah. I'll shuck. Yeah. You ever shuck a clam?
-No. -You never shucked?
-I've never shucked. No. -Oh, well.
Shucking is a fantastic experience. Yeah.
[ Laughter ] Oh, no, no, no. Yeah.
If you haven't shucked, you should try shucking.
-Yeah.
-You know, you get the implement.
-You get in there and...
-There's ice, you know. -The whole --
-And then you have your cocktail sauce,
and you take a clam once in a while.
-Is that right?
-I'm not saying I'm shucking without tasting.
-No, no, no, no, no, no. You have to have a little taste.
-You gotta have a taste. -Off the top. Yeah.
With the success of "Curb Your Enthusiasm,"
uh, and the success of "Seinfeld,"
did you ever think that this would ever happen?
-I'm very successful. I get it. -Yeah.
-Oh. Oh. -You're such a --
-Oh. -Such a --
-Such a big success. Yeah. -Yeah.
Did you ever dream this could -- this would happen?
-I'm surprised that anything good that's ever happened to me.
Yeah. -Did you have the support
of, uh, Mom and Dad?
-[Sarcastically] Oh, yeah. Yeah. Real supportive. Yeah.
No. My mother, um -- My mother wanted me --
She wanted me to be a mailman. -Me too.
-Yeah. That was -- That was her dream.
That was -- That was her best case scenario.
-That was my -- -Yeah.
-That was -- I did the Postal exam. I took the test.
-I didn't take the test. Yeah. -Oh, I did it.
-But, anyway, my mother was so worried about me.
When I was, you know, like, 12,
she wrote a -- she wrote a letter to the psychiatrist
who had a column in the "New York Post,"
Dr. Franzblau.
She wrote a letter to Dr. Franzblau,
and I read it because she used to talk about Dr. Franzblau.
So I would read the column, and I recognized
that this was my mother writing to the psychiatrist!
My mother. I know it. -What was she saying?
-She's saying that, "My son is 12 years old.
He hates people."
[ Laughter ]
"He hates people. He's, uh...
He's morose. He's taciturn."
And what really gave it away...
"He doesn't trick-or-treat.
He doesn't go out trick-or-treating."
That's me! I didn't trick-or-treat!
I knew it was me!
-You got to get this article. You got to cut this out.
-I should have saved it. But it was me.
-That's hilarious. -You know, trick-or-treating.
-You didn't like trick-or-treating?
-It's stupid. You know? -What?
-First of all, you got strangers.
You're dealing with strangers all over the place.
Every apartment is a stranger. -Yeah.
-You know?
It's rude, too, banging on someone's door.
It's stupid.
-At 12 years old, you thought this?
-Yeah, I knew that at 12.
I didn't want to see all those people.
And then the costume? The costume?!
-Yeah. -You got to put a costume on?!
-Yeah. -Come on.
-Yeah. I'm not -- Yeah. You can -- No.
You have to wear that all day.
-When's the last time you put a costume on in your life?
In your life? -No.
-Okay. -I don't do it.
-Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
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You cannot -- You cannot put costumes on.
Somebody invited me to an all-white party.
Not, you know... [ Mutters ]
[ Laughter ]
-No, no. No.
-Clothing. Clothing. -Clothing. Clothing.
-Clothing! -Clothing.
-It's clothing. -It's clothing.
-Clothing! -Clothing white. Yes.
Just...
It got real quiet. -Yeah.
-It got real -- Got real quiet for a second.
-But -- But, you know --
[ Laughter ]
But I wouldn't, you know --
I wouldn't put on the all-white costume.
-No.
[ Laughter ]
No. You don't want to do that. -I'm not going to do that.
-I want to talk to you more about the show.
More with Larry David when we come back, everybody. Come on back.