Larry David may have taken his misanthropic routine too far, insulting all Romanian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian women in the latest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The joke was pretty uncomfortable and lasted far too long, like most jokes in the latest season of Curb. What’s worse, David returned to the same Romanian Uber driver again and started insulting his country’s women, again. While that’s a classic move for Larry David, it’s getting really fucking old watching Larry be downright insulting to people.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is typically very clever, but the latest season has been trending downward from the start, with unimaginably uncomfortable scenes, like the plane ride, that last far too long. Not to mention the incredibly derivative jokes that have been played out in the years since David was last on TV (the awkward movie theater scene). He seems to have forgotten that good jokes have a basis in reality, whether stereotypes or not, and I’ve never heard anything that would make this Romanian women-bashing funny. Additionally, the joke carelessly assumes that the Hungarians and Romanians look the same.

While it’s part of Larry’s shtick to call people on their bullshit, a man as ugly as him should not be insulting the appearance of anybody, let alone an entire country. Like it says in the episode, you’re a ‘2 out of 5’ at best Larry, wake up. No one believes you could actually get Elizabeth Banks or Lauren Graham in real life or on screen, and now that you’ve used this joke 15 times it’s lost any humor it had.

Curb Your Enthusiasm has turned into Larry David’s fantasy world, where he dates unobtainable women and engages in incidents that would get his ass beat in real life. More evidence of this trend came when he made a holocaust joke while hosting SNL. As Salon put it, the monologue was “more evidence of a comic unable to update his views…or his act.” While David may think his racial and ethnic jokes are pushing the boundaries of comedy, he’s actually just insulting a shitload of people and it’s getting pretty uncomfortable.

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