

In a series full of comedians, Susie is one of the most reliable sources of comic relief. freeway’s worth of “ You four-eyed fuck!!!”s and “ You car wash cunt!!!”s all cutting each other off. Like that time, in Season 3 of Curb, when it takes her all of 10 seconds to accelerate from gracefully offering a tour of her new home to her best frenemy-played by the show’s misanthropic creator Larry David-to gracing Larry with a now familiar refrain: “Get the fuck out of my house!!!!”Īfter 20 years and 10 seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which debuted at the turn of the millennium and is set to premiere its 11th season this Sunday, there’s a whole lot more where that came from, a veritable L.A. And it requires only the slightest nudge to rev Susie up instantly from zero to 60 million miles per hour. Tightly coiled from head to soul, she needs almost constant maintenance: She’s a real piece of work, as they say. Gaudy and gutsy, she honks and purrs and blows past stop signs, never bothering with the rearview mirror.

As the longtime high-octane housewife Susie Greene in the HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm, the actress and comedian Susie Essman zooms in and out of scenes with the eye-catching, bird-flipping verve of a fancy, temperamental sports car changing lanes.
