Larry David "Curb Your Enthusiasm". He was nominated for an Emmy award 19 times for "Seinfeld", winning twice – once for best comedy and once for writing. The HBO cable television channel aired David's 1-hour special, "", on October 17, 1999. This was followed by "Curb Your Enthusiasm", a television series on HBO that aired its first episode on October 15, 2000. The show revisits many of the themes of "Seinfeld", and is improvised from a story outline only several pages long that David writes (as of the 5th season, additional writers were hired). The actors improvise their dialogue based on the
The Larry Sanders Show "The Larry Sanders Show". Matt Zoller Seitz wrote in "Time Out Los Angeles" that it introduced to television the cinematic technique of "walk and talk" where the camera follows the actors as they move around the offices in conversation. This later became an important part of the style of "The West Wing" and "ER". The show can also be seen as a distorted example of reality television because the portrayal of the talk show production is so convincing. According to Andrew Pulver in "The Guardian", "This is where it all began. The whole postmodernist, self-reflexive fact-fiction sitcom thing." After the