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
David Threlfall David Threlfall David Threlfall (born 12 October 1953) is an English stage, film and television actor and director. He is probably best known for playing Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's series "Shameless". He has also directed several episodes of the show. In April 2014, he portrayed comedian Tommy Cooper in a television film entitled "". In 2014, he starred alongside Jude Law in the thriller "Black Sea". The son of a plumber, Tommy Threlfall and his wife, Joyce Foulds, David was born in Crumpsall, Manchester, Lancashire. The family lived in Blackley then moved to the Bradford area of Manchester and