‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ looks to pad its Emmy record for winlessness in Best Comedy Series
The chances that “Curb Your Enthusiasm” will add to its impressive total of 51 Emmy nominations during its current 12th and final season – which concludes with the series finale this Sunday April 7 over HBO and Max – are beginning to look pretty, pretty good. Let’s quickly go to the odds: Larry David himself currently ranks fourth for Best Comedy Actor at 5/1, while the series itself sits in fifth place for Best Comedy Series at 17/2.
In other words, there are a last few opportunities for the kind of delicious indignity that fuels David’s cranky and despairing life view – at least in the Larry David version we see on “Curb.”
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The truth is that “Curb” has come up winless thus far in all 10 of its nominations for top comedy series. That’s a record for a comedy. In fact, should “Curb Your Enthusiasm” earn a final series bid and predictably fail to parlay it into a victory, it would tie the mark for a scripted series of 11 lifetime nominations without taking home the statuette currently held by “Law & Order.” While “Better Call Saul” holds the record for most total noms without a single win at 53, a mere seven of those were in the Best Drama Series category. It should also be noted that “Curb” has won two Emmys, though not for a while. They were awarded in directing (to Bob Weide) in 2003 and for editing in 2012.
As for David himself, he’s personally come up empty 16 times thus far at the Emmys, though just six of those are in Best Comedy Actor. Even should he land a seventh bid and fail to cash it in for gold, he’d still have a long way to go to catch the record holder for Emmy performance category misery. That distinction is famously held by the late great Angela Lansbury, who racked up 18 nominations without a win for her career – including a dozen straight years for “Murder, She Wrote.”
David did win a pair of Emmys, but they were for writing and producing on “Seinfeld” more than three decades ago (in 1993). Also worthy of mention is the fact that there have been other shows that failed to once cash their series nomination tickets at a double-digit level even higher than “Curb” and “Law & Order,” but they’re unscripted – specifically “Antiques Roadshow” on PBS (20 bids, 0 wins) and HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” (12 nominations, 0 wins).
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