Role:
Writer
Time
on
SNL:
1984-1985
The
story
of
how
Larry
David
quit
his
job
as
a
Saturday
Night
Live writer
will
leave audiences
laughing.
“My
sketches
would
do
very
well
at
the
readthrough,
and
then
they
would
invariably
get
cut
week
after
week
after
week,” the
Curb
Your
Enthusiasm
star
explained
on
a
2015
episode
of
The
Howard
Stern
Show. “And
then
one
night,
before
the
show,
another
sketch
of
mine
was
cut
at
11:25—five
minutes
before
the
show
was
to
start.
I
had
enough.”
So,
Larry
continued,
he
walked
over
to
executive
producer
Dick
Ebersol
and
said, “This
f–king
show
stinks.
It
stinks!
It’s
s–t!
I’m
done!
I’m
gone!
F–k
this!
I’m
out!”
As
he
walked
home
in
the
cold,
he
added,
he
realized
what
he
had
done
and
how
much
money
he
would
lose.
So,
Larry
returned
the
next
week
as
if
nothing
had
happened.
“There’s
a
writers’
meeting
every
Monday
morning,
and
I
walk
into
the
meeting,”
he
continued. “The
writers
had
heard
the
outburst,
and
I
sat
down.
And
then
he
would
go
around
and
ask
everybody
what
they
were
working
on
for
the
week.
And
I
was
about
the
fifth
one
on
the
couch.
And
then
he
got
to
me
and
I
was
like, ‘Well,
I’m
thinking
of
doing
this
circus
sketch.'”
Larry
got
to
keep
his
job,
but
stayed
for
only
about
a
year.
But
it
was
here
the
Seinfeld
creator
met
his
sitcom’s
star
Julia
Louis-Dreyfus.
Over
the
years,
Larry
has
hosted
SNL
twice
and
made
many
guest
appearances,
including
playing
Vermont
Senator
Bernie
Sanders.
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