Albuquerque Examiner: Boxer curbs her enthusiasm
September 18
Whose pants are those?
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., took a guest turn on Sunday night’s episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Larry David’s often lewd, always discomfiting comedy series on HBO. Boxer spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz explained that David and Boxer are longtime friends and she has always been a big fan of his, so he invited her to guest-star. The episode taped several months ago, Ravitz said.
In the episode, David and Ted Danson meet Boxer at the Los Angeles office of the Natural Resources Defense Council, to which David and Danson have donated large sums of money. David soon launches into a rant about how his dry cleaner gave away his Yankees jersey to another customer.
Far from sympathizing with her constituent, Boxer admonishes him: “Larry, the thing about it is sometimes you get an item that isn’t yours, and sometimes you lose an item, so it balances out.” She then confides that she’s wearing someone else’s pants that she got at the dry cleaner.
So what about Boxer’s relatively smooth performance in the show’s difficult, unscripted format? Ravitz said as far as she knows, the senator has no experience doing improv comedy. Despite her relative lack of experience, it’s by no means Boxer’s first turn in front of a camera. She’s appeared in “The Gilmore Girls,” “Murphy Brown” and HBO’s “K Street” on TV, and “Traffic” on the big screen, saying it helps her to support one of the largest industries in her state....
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