Ted Danson portrayed himself on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm for more than two decades. But it wasn’t until close to the end of the show’s run that he realized he was playing a jerk. On Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote his new Netflix series A Man on the Inside,

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" often blurred the lines between real life and fiction, once even resulting in people believing Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen were really getting divorced. According to Danson himself,

How Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm helped Ted Danson rediscover his passion for comedy when he felt his comedic spark had faded.

Ted Danson talks about working with his wife Mary Steenburgen and Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing an 80-year-old private investigator in A Man on the Inside and hosting his podcast Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Woody Harrelson.