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In a recently published The New York Times op-ed, Larry David has seemingly taken a shot at Bill Maher for his dinner with Trump. The Seinfeld co-creator apparently satirized the HBO host’s meeting with the US President in his guest essay “My Dinner With Adolf.”
While Larry David has never been a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher, the actor-comedian appeared on the show’s first episode. Larry, who played a fictionalized version of himself on Curb Your Enthusiasm for more than two decades, appeared in a sketch with the talk show host.
On the first episode that aired on February 21, 2003, Larry David came by to congratulate Bill Maher. Their interaction follows the premise of a typical Curb Your Enthusiasm conversation, which ends up in a conflict. In the sketch, Maher calls David selfish, claiming that his shows glorified selfishness.
Bill Maher concludes the sketch by jokingly claiming,
“You’re the man who glorified selfishness in America. What was Seinfeld? What is your show? It’s about glorifying selfishness, which is what’s wrong with this country – Selfishness. Yes, Larry you did that. You’ve ruined America.”
More than two decades later, Larry David seemingly called out the Real Time anchor with his satirical take on the Maher-Trump dinner. The guest essay from the comedian was published weeks after the comedian and talk show host recounted his experience of meeting the US President.
Larry David seemingly satirizes Bill Maher’s dinner with Trump in his NYT guest essay
The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator-actor, who has been a Democratic Party supporter for years, recently wrote a fictional account of being invited to dine with Hitler. Coincidentally, Bill Maher talked about his visit to the White House a while back while also mentioning his anti-Trump stance.
The Real Time host recalled many positive things from his two-and-half-hour meeting with Donald Trump. Maher described the US President as “much more self-aware” and claimed,
“A crazy person doesn't live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is f**ked up. It's just not as f**ked up as I thought it was.”
Bill Maher spoke on conservative political activist Charlie Kirk’s Club Random podcast,
“I told you the truth [about the Trump dinner]. That's all I did. I went there and I told the truth of what happened. And they would prefer that I had lied.”
He also proclaimed,
“They just don't feel like this is a real person. It's so weird to say that about Donald Trump whom I've said a jillion times is a whiny little b****. [...] But this was about getting past that and maybe seeing that if we met in person, we don't hate each other as much – and we don't – and I'm sorry, I'm not going to pretend that's a bad thing. Even though he's doing terrible things.”
Larry David seemingly drew parallels between Bill Maher’s remarks and his fictitious account of dining with Adolf Hitler. He wrote about being “a vocal critic of” the n**i leader and “predicting everything” the dictator did. David added (via The New York Times),
“But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side.”
Seemingly referencing Bill Maher’s depiction of Trump during their private dinner, Larry David wrote,
“I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal.”
David detailed the conversations that happened during the imaginary dinner and concluded,
“The dinner was over, and the Führer escorted me to the door. ‘I am so glad to have met you. I hope I’m no longer the monster you thought I was.’ ‘I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.’ And with that, I gave him a N**i salute and walked out into the night.”
It is not the first time Larry David has criticized someone for their stance on Trump. According to Page Six, the Seinfeld co-creator reportedly screamed at the Harvard professor and lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, at a grocery store in 2021 over alleged ties with Donald Trump.
The incident happened when David claimed he saw the lawyer with his arm around Mike Pompeo, former Trump Secretary of State. Per Page Six, Larry branded Dershowitz’s actions as “disgusting.”
The lawyer-professor reportedly told the comedian that Pompeo was one of his former students, and he greets all of his former students that way. After the verbal spat, Dershowitz called Larry “a knee-jerk radical” in a conversation with Page Six.
Alan Dershowitz also claimed that David “takes his politics from Hollywood,” and suggested that the Curb Your Enthusiasm star doesn’t read and think a lot.
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