Watching Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld riff: Curb Your Enthusiasm

The Bare Midriff episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is entirely ridiculous but funny nevertheless. You can't buy into the premise, nor are you meant to do so. Larry is writing the Seinfeld reunion, with Jerry, in one of the studio lot offices - actually, this is some of the most interesting material in the series, as it does give you a pretty good idea as to how these shows are written and it seems to be filmed on the real studio lot. A couple of guys sit in an office with a big whiteboard and riff off each other for hours. A good life - but only a handful of people in the world are good enough to do it well, and of course, their very wit and eccentricity, will constantly keep them on the edge and get them into trouble and ruin their relationships with others, even with other show-business eccentrics. This episode, unlike some of the others, takes a turn toward high camp, as Larry reminds a woman of her exhusband killed in a road rage incident many years back (this is comic, actually), Larry accidentally sprays a Jesus picture with piss that looks like a teardrop, leading people to believe there's been a miracle, and Larry ends up on a rooftop, about to fall from the ledge, saved by hanging onto a woman's fleshy "bare midriff" - well, you can see that this episode pushes the comic high jinx a bit past the breaking point. Best scenes are watching Jerry and Larry play off each other, arguing (in whispers) as to who's going to tell the secretary/assistant to dress properly. They're like a couple of little boys - which is what comics do best. They don't grow up.