"Seinfeld," which you co-created,
with that other guy.
Of course, there are all these episodes of "Seinfeld"
that have now become famous and part of the TV lore.
One of the most famous was "The Contest."
Yeah.
Where all the main characters had to refrain from
pleasuring themselves- Yeah.
For quite a while, and that was actually,
that idea came from you, is that right?
Yeah, that was based on something
that actually happened to me.
Okay, you actually had a contest like this in your life?
Yeah, I was in a contest.
Okay.
What was the reason for having a contest like that?
I just got a little tired of it, you know?
(laughing)
It seemed like it was, it seemed like it was in the air.
There was too much of it going on.
I wanted out, you know?
[Conan] You wanted out?
I wanted out!
I didn't wanna have anything to do with it anymore.
They keep dragging me back in!
Yeah. I needed,
I needed some motivation, you know,
to get outta that- Right.
'Cause, you know, you need to be motivated to do that.
Right.
So I decided,
I was talking to a friend of mine one day,
and we decided on this contest.
Right, and did you, did you,
Because in the show, you pretty much
are the George Costanza character.
Are you the one that won the contest,
just as George did in the show?
Yeah, I won the contest.
Okay.
But I was weakening in the last couple of days.
Okay. Very nice.
Very nice that you could share that, though, with America.
I'll share everything with America.
Now, you don't, you're not,
you don't appear on talk shows.
You're very happy to, you haven't done this before.
You're not, you're not comfortable
with the whole promotional aspect of this, to be honest.
I'm not comfortable in my living room,
so, but that has nothing to do with anything.
Right.
No, because it seems,
it seems kinda silly why,
I'm gonna come out here and start talking about
this special and people are gonna go rushing
for their pencils, you know?
[Conan] Right.
I mean the whole idea is preposterous.
What's the point?
You don't think you're helping by appearing on this show,
you don't think you're helping your special?
I think people will come out here
and deliberately not watch after having seen me.
(laughing)
I think that's possible.
I don't see the whole point of it,
it seems like it's like it's a bizarre kind of plot.
Right, right. What about the whole
celebrity interview thing?
What do you think of that?
I mean the whole concept with these shows
are just celebrity interviews. What do you think of that?
I don't even know what you're referring to.
(laughing)
You think it's weird,
it's a contrived conversation, is that?
Oh totally, yes, I do, I do think that.
You wouldn't talk to me if you saw me?
I think that.
It's a contrived conversation.
It's so contrived!
It's a contrived conversation, now?
Totally, totally, yeah.
There you go.
No, I know I have an opinion on that,
but I just don't know what it is.
(laughing)
You, you're a stand-up,
and you're returning to stand-up.
And it was hard going when you were a stand-up.
Yes it was, a little bit. I've heard.
How hard going, what happened?
The audience would actually be visibly angry with you?
A lot of times, they would be very upset
with my, with me, or my material,
or some combination.
[Conan] Right.
And, I would be heckled unmercifully.
You know, Really?
and I didn't, I couldn't deny,
I didn't react to it like a comedian,
like to have something like funny to say,
something witty.
I just kind of, you know,
I was like McEnroe up there,
I would be very temperamental.
I go, "Well why are you saying that stuff to me?"
You know. (laughing)
I'm a sensitive person,
you can't talk to me like that!
Yeah I would like freak out, yeah.
(laughing)
I could not deal,
it's not a comeback, yeah.
That's the worst response you can have.
Yeah, the worst, yeah. Yeah.
And you know, I happened to have a terrible temper
that's accompanied by no guts,
which is also a very, very bad combination.
Really? Okay. I gotta catch your act.
This sounds fun.
Don't catch it.
Okay. Don't catch it.
(laughing)
So don't watch the special,
Larry David "Curb Your Enthusiasm,"
Don't have to, no.
On October 17th at 10.
You know, if it was on in the daytime
I would say definitely don't watch it,
that would be idiotic.
[Conan] Right. you know.
You're not gonna stay home, I'm gonna stay home
you know, today.
If you have nothing else to do.
Now that's stupid.
But night, maybe if you're passing by it, watch it.
(laughing)
The best plug we've had,
in six years on the air, yeah.
Well Larry, thank you very much for stopping by.
Well thank you so much.
Best of luck, thanks for indulging us.
Larry David.
Eve is coming up, we'll be right back, stick around.