28 Most Subversive Comedians Ever

LARRY DAVID

LARRY CHARLES SAYS: ''Through Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm — which is kind of a deconstruction of Seinfeld — he has become a Jewish, middle-aged male version of Edith Wharton. He looks at social contracts we all take for granted and constantly questions them. And in doing so, he's shining a light on the absurdity of them. He's very fearless, very willing to portray himself in a negative light in order to do that. He doesn't get enough credit for how brilliant and how experimental Curb is. It blows up the sitcom form. He's also gone from needing characters to express his ideas to just doing it stripped bare, more like stand-up comedy — becoming a persona to express all those thoughts himself.''