Larry David in all probability already had curbed his enthusiasm a couple of closing season Emmy breakthrough for his long-running HBO sequence however tonight made it official — David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm ended its run because the present with probably the most Excellent Comedy Collection nominations, 11, and not using a win.
Curb was up for 4 Emmys this yr, together with Excellent Comedy Collection and Excellent Lead Actor In A Comedy Collection for David, lacking out on all to wrap its 12-season run with a complete of 55 Emmy nominations and two wins, for Excellent Single-camera Image Enhancing For A Comedy Collection in 2012 and for Directing in 2003.
Probably expecing the result, David, who made the Emmy get together circuit earlier this weekend, was a no present at tonight’s ceremony.
Over the previous 24 years, Curb Your Enthusiasm has been a constant Emmy performer. Its 11 Excellent Comedy Collection nominations are a file excessive, shared with such classics as Cheers and M*A*S*H*. It has been the second section of Emmy voting the place Curb repeatedly got here up brief. For comparability, Cheers gained the highest comedy sequence award 4 instances, M*A*S*H* took it dwelling as soon as.
Curb has held the file for many Comedy Collection Emmy nominations and not using a win for years. Fittingly, the earlier file holder it eclipsed is HBO’s The Larry Sanders Present, the primary cable entrant into the highest comedy sequence class after non-broadcast fare was allowed into the Emmy races in 1988. The Larry Sanders Present, which has influenced numerous comedies, together with Curb, obtained six Excellent Comedy Collection nominations, not in a position to convert any of them.
So, with its winless streak, Curb is in good firm. Add to that AMC’s Higher Name Saul which final yr ended its acclaimed six-season run with 53 Emmy nominations, together with seven for Excellent Drama Collection, and not using a single win.
Each Curb Your Enthusiasm and Higher Name Saul share DNA with awards juggernauts that had higher luck within the Emmy winners circle. Higher Name Saul is a prequel to Breaking Dangerous which obtained 58 nominations, profitable 16 Emmys, together with for Excellent Drama Collection.
In the meantime, Curb is a non secular successor to Seinfeld, which David co-created, with the NBC sitcom usually referenced on the present, together with within the sequence finale, which performed off Seinfeld‘s notorious nearer. Seinfeld gained 10 Emmys, together with for Excellent Comedy Collection, out of 68 nominations.
