Ted Danson thought ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ absolutely ‘sucked’: ‘I felt sorry’ for Larry David

Ted Danson wasn’t an early fan of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

The Emmy winner, 76, recently told “Curb” star J. B. Smoove that before he and his wife, Mary Steenburgen, appeared on the sitcom, they watched the very first episode and “thought it absolutely sucked.”

“I’ve told this story before, but we watched the pilot of ‘Curb,'” Danson said on his SiriusXM podcast “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” on Wednesday.

“Mary thought it was great. I thought it sucked. I thought it absolutely sucked and I felt sorry for my new friend, Larry David.”

Danson explained that to be “encouraging” to David, 77, who created, wrote and starred in “Curb,” he promised the fellow actor that he and Steenburgen, 71, would play themselves on the show.

“And in that sort of idiocy, I ended up being part of something that changed my life,” Danson said.