Do not ever ask Larry David about his web price. Ever. That is the arduous — and hilarious — lesson CNN’s Chris Wallace lately realized.
Within the newest episode of Who’s Speaking to Chris Wallace? on Max, the 76-year-old veteran newsman recalled to David that his father — the famed 60 Minutes Correspondent Mike Wallace — as soon as instructed Johnny Carson that individuals are all the time “fascinated” by how a lot wealthy individuals are price.
Earlier than Wallace may even end his thought David interjected, and his timing was spot-on.
“That’s terrible. Terrible question,” he stated. “Who’s your father think he was, by the way?”
Wallace insisted it was an incredible query, which is why he then proceeded to ask it, a lot to David’s chagrin.
“On the internet … the over/under is half a billion dollars,” Wallace tells David, who rattling close to spit out the water he sipped.
In an try and both keep away from the query and alter the topic, the Seinfeld co-creator knowledgeable Wallace he was out of water. However Wallace doubled down.
“Over or under half a billion dollars?” Wallace requested, to which David responded with, “I’m gonna say what should have been said to your father — none of your f***ing business. How about that?”
David then scoffed on the “half a billion dollars” estimation relating to his web price.
“And that’s ridiculous,” he stated. “That’s ridiculous … the number is so preposterous. OK. Ridiculous.”
Wallace then puzzled if it was extra within the $100 million vary, however David wasn’t having it.
“OK, how about you shut up?” David jokingly shot again. “How about you shut up? Is that alright?”
Befuddled, Wallace was left close to speechless.
“I gotta say, you know, 100 interviews. Nobody’s ever said that to me before,” Wallace answered.
Cue the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme track!
It is easy to see why David’s web price is an fascinating subject for some people. Forbes reported in 2015 that “his net worth is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, with some reporting that before his recent divorce, it could have been as high as $900 million.”
David co-created Seinfeld, which has generated hundreds of thousands for him because the hit NBC sitcom went into syndication. Then there’s his HBO hit collection, Curb Your Enthusiasm, which this yr kicked off its twelfth and last season. ET was with David on the L.A. premiere of Curb, the place he confirmed that that is completely it relating to Curb.
“Yeah. What do I have to do [to convince people]? Yes, it’s so, it’s so. I’m tired of people thinking I’m lying,” David exclaimed to ET. “We’re done, it’s over, yeah, it’s over.”
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