4) Susie Essman
Her movie and television roles are limited (apparently she is “known” for voicing “Mittens” in the movie Bolt), but Susie Essman deserves to be mentioned alongside these prime pottymouths for her work on Curb Your Enthusiasm. In fact, it wouldn’t be that bold to consider her the MVFP of that show, because it’s often her hostile candor and angry chastisements that provide the most humorous contrast to Larry David’s lackadaisical yet neurotic, dare I say solipsistic anti-hero, along with Jeff Garlin’s loud but generally good-natured friend.
The series has relied on the necessity of someone offering up a scathing critique of Larry’s behavior, and no one does that better than Essman. As a result, on equal footing with “prettay, prettay…prettay good” as a signature catchphrase is either “fat fuck” or “four-eyed fuck,” depending on which of the two nincompoop compadres she is addressing. She ties Curb together in that every time she gets to speak she blows everything up.
Published: Mar 14, 2014 10:28 am