Jewish comedian and all-around misanthrope Larry David tells the Daily Dish “I’ve done one decent thing in my life, albeit inadvertently.”
The Curb Your Enthusiasm star is referring to the release of Juan Catalan from jail after he was mistakenly charged with the murder of a 16 year-old girl. Catalan’s lawyer maintained his client at the ballpark that night, the same Dodgers game where David was filming an episode of his show (the one where David hires a hooker so he can drive in the carpool lane.) Edited footage revealed that Catalan was indeed innocent.
We knew under that mean-spirited talk ol’ Larry was just an old softy.
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What are the odds that the hooker episode saves an innocent life? I knew that episode would be a classic in TV land, and now it will be the known as the jail-springing, hooker at the park and some weed in the coat episode.