Art imitating a divorced man's life

When you go through a marital separation, there isn't generally much that you can laugh about. However, it seems that one US actor can find plenty of jokes about his own divorce - to the extent that he could use it as the basis of an episode of a TV show.

Larry David, co-creator of hit comedy series Seinfeld, now stars in Curb Your Enthusiasm, a programme in which he plays an exaggerated version of himself. In the latest episode he is told by his on-screen wife Cheryl, played by Cheryl Hines, that she is leaving him.

In June this year, David's real spouse Laurie told him that she wanted a divorce due to "irreconcilable difference". The couple had been married for 14 years and according to their spokesperson their split was "very amicable".

Back in TV land, David's wife calls him from a plane that could be about to crash, only to hear her husband ask her to call back in ten minutes because he is waiting for their television to be fixed. Slightly perturbed, Cheryl rings back and tells her hubby: "I'm leaving, Larry. I can't do this anymore."

Curb Your Enthusiasm is aired in the US on NBC and has been running since 2000.

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