The guest actors on Curb often have to audition for their parts, including A-list stars — unless, of course, those stars are playing themselves. And the tryouts involve an improv session with Larry with only a brief synopsis of backstory. Frequent director Robert B. Weide told the Times that working on Curb is like working for the CIA, in that “you get information on a need-to-know basis.”
Actor Chris Williams told the newspaper that he went to his audition as “thugged out” as he could be when he tried out for his role as rapper Krazee-Eyez Killa.
“I just started messing with Larry as much as possible,” he said. “You can’t be too jokey in the audition; it’s grounded in reality, even though it’s absurdity. I went in there, and I was like, ‘Yo, Larry, you have two first names, how’d you get that?’ Ridiculous things to keep him off guard.”
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