Day Tripping: July 2
Heights, Flights, and Rights
Larry David was born in 1947 and is the comedic visionary behind two highly successful television series, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Both shows came on the heels of work as a store clerk, limousine driver, and a less than stellar stand-up comedy career.
” Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don’t want to in order to figure out what it is you’re supposed to do.”
– Larry David
After two years of writing for Saturday Night Live, where only one of his skits made the air, David quit the show. Then, in typical Larry David fashion, he showed up at the studio two days later as if nothing had occurred.
Since then, America’s favorite curmudgeon returned as a guest on SNL many times, most notably to portray US President hopeful, Bernie Sanders. David confessed at one point that he actually begged Sanders to quit running so he wouldn’t have to keep flying from LA to New York to spoof the politician on the show.
Flights Lost and Found
On the same day that the plane carrying Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared over the South Pacific in 1937, balloonist Steve Fossett completed his two-week air trip around the world in 2002…
