10 Pretty Pretty Pretty Good Curb Your Enthusiasm Guest Stars

From talk-show hosts to musicians and tennis players, never has a show attracted such talent!

By Adria Aranda Balibrea /

You spend your life working towards it. Those who don’t have it, crave it, and those who have it are never satisfied and always want more. What am I talking about? Success. But how exactly do we measure success?

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Well, despite what you might think, there is a very simple question you can ask yourself when you reach that mid-life crisis to determine whether you’ve arrived at the promised land of success: have you made a guest appearance on Larry David’s television comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Whether you’re a politician, writer, musician, athlete, actor, journalist or a comedian, this show really doesn’t discriminate when it comes to picking guest star. So the fact is, if you haven’t appeared on it then chances are your life hasn’t panned out exactly how you would have expected.

Like most celebrity appearances on shows, they are short, sweet, and not particularly note-worthy. Occasionally, however, a guest actor will appear on a show and deliver such a performance that’ll leave you wondering why they aren’t a permanent contributor!

The regularity with which this is the case on Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of the reasons it’s such a hit show. Without further ado, here are ten Emmy-worthy guest stars on Curb…

10. The 'Seinfeld' Cast

They are like the chicken and the egg: Larry David and the most successful sitcom to date, Seinfeld, which he co-created and produced. Without him, the show wouldn’t exist and without the show, he would be a nobody.

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Therefore, it seemed only fitting that the cast (Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jason Alexander) would make a guest appearance on David’s more recent show, Curb.

Initially, Larry (the character) is against doing a Seinfeld reunion episode in Season 7, but following the separation with his wife, Cheryl, a lightbulb goes off in his head.

If he finds a way to incorporate her into the episode as an actress, whilst seeing him in his element, writing and directing the episode etc, she will re-fall in love with him (obviously). Sadly, a series of unfortunate events leads this episode down a rather peculiar avenue…

From a suspected affair between Cheryl and Jason Alexander to Michael Richard’s fear of a deadly disease diagnosis and a stand-off between Larry and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the whole thing is classic Seinfeld show-about-nothing stuff.

Yet it comes with a touch of the adult, extreme, and often dark humour Curb tends to practise. It leaves you wondering which of the two shows you’re actually watching…

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