God, Kanye West is the worst. “What Kanye said to me the first time [we met was], ‘I’m the black Larry David,’ ” director Larry Charles (“Borat,” “Religulous” “Curb Your Enthusiam”) told Coming Soon.
How Kanye is anyhow remotely like the black version of Larry David is beyond us and obviously only to be inexplicably reasoned in the koo-koo mind of the arrogant rapper, but whatever. Apparently West is doing some HBO show with Charles that is not the animated Muppets-like show that was mentioned recently.
Charles says the show (which he’s already shot a pilot for) will be like “Curb Your Enthusiam” meet Kanye’s ego. Ugh. We can’t wait for that trainwreck. But it does sound like HBO is on the fence about the project.
“It’s kind of improvised about the situations and stuff. It was really good, but again I think it was too hardcore for HBO. Also, HBO’s management shifted, but HBO doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to black shows and I felt like that may have had something to do with it also. I don’t see a lot of shows about that experience at all. This was very entertaining and we showed it to a lot of people. People gave it a very good response and it seems to be on the shelf right now. The management has shifted at HBO so we’re waiting to see. Sue Naegle has taken over and I want to show it to her and see how she responds to it.”
Charles also noted that he’s working on a project with Owen Wilson and hippie-guru listener/producer Rick Rubin. Hmm, possibly smells like a rock biopic, no?
