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Arthur: I don't really want you dating her.

Norman: Well you know what? I know where she works. I'll call her anyway.

Arthur: She wouldn't go out with you.

Norman: Why not?

Arthur: Because you have no game. You're clumsy and awkward and inappropriate. You couldn't make a move if your life depended on it. Your dream date is a woman breaking into your house and sitting on your penis!

Norman: Who wouldn't want that?

Larry David, Fish in the Dark (2015)

#100plays #fish in the dark #larry david #2015 #curb your enthusiasm #modern drama #modern theatre #stage comedy #tagging curb bc this is really a very close relative #made in the six year gap between seasons 8 and 9 of Curb‚ Larry channels the same kind of energy to explore a Jewish family in moments #of grief and absurdity (and the absurdity of grief). having such a distinctive (and well known) authorial voice certainly helps the play #it's impossible not to read Norman's lines without imagining David's own particular cadence and timing‚ which helps a lot of the jokes land #and helps to elevate what is often a very old fashioned kind of family farce to something much fresher feeling

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