Role: Writer
SNL appearance period: 1984-1985
The story of how Larry David quit his job as a writer on Saturday Night Live will make audiences laugh.
“My sketches went really well at read-through, but then they got cut week after week after that,” the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star explained on a 2015 episode of The Howard Stern Show. “Then one night, before the show, another sketch of mine was cut at 11:25, five minutes before the show started. Enough was enough.”
So Larry went on to walk up to Dick Ebersol, the executive producer, and say, “This fucking King’s show stinks. It stinks! It stinks! It’s over! Get out! Damn this! I’m out!”
He added that as he walked home in the cold, he realized what he had done and how much money he was going to lose. So Larry came back the next week as if nothing had happened.
“We have a writers’ meeting every Monday morning, and I attend that meeting,” he continued. “The writers had heard that blast, so I sat down and he went around and asked everyone what they were doing that week. And I was like the fifth person on the couch. And he came up to me and I was like, ‘I’m thinking of doing this circus skit.'”
Larry continued his job and had to stay another year. But it was here that the “Seinfeld” author met sitcom star Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Over the years, Larry hosted SNL twice and made numerous guest appearances, including the role of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
