“I know him,” Larry David conceded, when asked about his friendship with former President Barack Obama during a Friday SXSW panel. “Don’t look down on him because of that. We play golf together from time to time.”
More than a casual friendship, the duo are producing a forthcoming sketch comedy series (also starring David) for HBO about American history pegged to the country’s 250th anniversary. The show puts David in various famous scenarios throughout the county’s history. It’s a weird time to be celebrating the U.S., longtime David collaborator Jeff Schaffer noted during the event, but they seem proud of the work all the same — previewing a clip of David as a bit of a sexual predator in the famous VJ Day photo of the soldier kissing a dental assistant in Times Square.
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