Larry David Would Rather ‘Spend a Year in Prison’ Than Do Another ‘Torturous’ Season of ‘Seinfeld’
Blake J. Harris, author of Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David, recently shared some revealing insights into Larry David’s experience creating and overseeing Seinfeld. Speaking on The Daily Beast’s Obsessed podcast on Saturday, October 24, Harris said David, 79, told some associates that he would “rather spend a year in prison than do another season of Seinfeld.” “Part of it is shtick or him being kind of funny, but part of it hints at how torturous it was for him to run Seinfeld,” the author explained. “That torture largely came from the pressure he put on himself to come up with good ideas,” Harris continued, “which is a constant theme in the book.” The biographer noted that David’s drive to make Seinfeld a success became a major source of stress for him over the years. “To him, every second of every episode needed to hit a certain caliber of quality and trying to clear that…
