Curbing It

by Jeff Garlin

Now in paperback from comedian and actor Jeff Garlin—who plays Larry David’s cheerful manager on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm—a year-long chronicle of his journey to reduce both his physical and carbon footprint in this laugh-out-loud self-experimental memoir.

Jeff Garlin has dedicated the filming of an entire season of Curb Your Enthusiasm to completely making over his lifestyle in two major ways—by losing weight and going green. Larry David’s rooting for him. Jerry Seinfeld’s plotting against him. And his wife is just plain annoyed by everything.

The hardest part of the endeavor is overcoming his food addiction—especially when craft service has a constant buffet of everything delicious you could imagine. In addition to cutting calories, Jeff accidentally falls into a love affair with pilates, sweats with Richard Simmons, and twice visits the Pritikin Longevity Center, which he says is “rehab for people who eat too much pizza.” As far as going green, Jeff has always been a big recycler, but he has a lot to learn. For example, actor Ed Begley Jr. is the guy to call if you want to reduce your environmental impact. Jeff does, and it changes everything.

Hysterical, entertaining, and eye-opening, Curbing It is a comedic memoir that’s not to be missed.

Genres: Comedy

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2012

About the author

Jeff Garlin is an American comic actor best known for his role as Jeff Greene, Larry David's manager on the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Reviews

[Nari · Rating 1 out of 5]

I thought this book was terrible. It was supposed to be about one man's weight loss journey with some going green thrown in. It ended up instead being one man's year long food log, with story after story about how he overate this or overate that. He lost no weight and gave up on his efforts to green his life too. What was the point of this book? Totally boring. Also, he broke up the text with random gibberish like "ooooo" that was supposed to represent him having a brain fart. And he used runon sentences. Where was the editor? This book is bad.

[LydiaJoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun book, quick read.