Larry David most likely already had curbed his enthusiasm a couple of final-season Emmy breakthrough for his long-running HBO collection, however Sunday night time made it official: David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm ended its run because the present with essentially the most Excellent Comedy Collection nominations, 11, and not using a win.
Curb was nominated for 4 Emmys this yr together with Excellent Comedy Collection and Excellent Lead Actor in a Comedy Collection for David, lacking out on all to wrap its 12-season run with a complete of 55 Emmy nominations and two wins, for Excellent Single-camera Image Enhancing for a Comedy Collection in 2012 and for Directing in 2003.
Seemingly anticipating the result, David, who made the Emmy social gathering circuit earlier this weekend, was a no-show at tonight’s ceremony. One other HBO | Max collection, Hacks, gained the Comedy Collection Prize tonight, whereas Jeremy Allen White repeated because the Lead Actor in a Comedy winner for FX’s The Bear.
Over the previous 24 years, Curb Your Enthusiasm has been a constant Emmy performer. Its 11 Excellent Comedy Collection nominations are a document excessive, shared with such classics as Cheers and M*A*S*H*. It has been within the second part of Emmy voting the place Curb repeatedly got here up quick. For comparability, Cheers gained the highest comedy collection award 4 occasions, M*A*S*H* took it house as soon as.
Curb has held the document for many Comedy Collection Emmy nominations and not using a win for years. Fittingly, the earlier document holder it eclipsed is HBO’s The Larry Sanders Present, the primary cable entrant into the highest comedy collection class after non-broadcast fare was allowed into the Emmy races in 1988. The Larry Sanders Present, which has influenced various comedies together with Curb, acquired six Excellent Comedy Collection nominations, not in a position to convert any of them.
So, with its winless streak, Curb is in good firm. Add to that AMC’s Higher Name Saul, which final yr ended its acclaimed six-season run with 53 Emmy nominations, together with seven for Excellent Drama Collection, and not using a single win.
Each Curb Your Enthusiasm and Higher Name Saul share DNA with awards juggernauts that had higher luck within the Emmy winners circle. Higher Name Saul is a prequel to Breaking Dangerous, which acquired 58 nominations, profitable 16 Emmys, together with for Excellent Drama Collection.
In the meantime, Curb is a non secular successor to Seinfeld, which David co-created, with the NBC sitcom typically referenced on the present together with within the collection finale, which performed off Seinfeld‘s notorious nearer. Seinfeld gained 10 Emmys, together with for Excellent Comedy Collection, out of 68 nominations.
