That has allowed Smoove to spout some of the funniest lines of the series off the top of his head. A whole scene might be written in a paragraph, with no dialogue, just the bones of what needs to happen to move the plot along. The HBO sitcom’s scripts are famously just an outline.

The best example of Smoove’s improv mastery, though, happens to be his best-known TV character, Leon Black from Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. When I introduced myself as Christopher, he spent a couple of minutes convincing me I should tell people it’s spelled “Christopher with a Q' just to see how they would react. Still, when he started in standup, he says he felt too robotic, so he took an improv class, and the tool became like a superpower.Īnd he can’t really turn it off. I felt like she was supposed to ask me out. “The funny thing is, I never even went on the date with her. SeatGeek will process your order and deliver your JB Smoove tickets. “It felt like everyone knew who I was,” he told the Tampa Bay Times by phone from Los Angeles. To buy JB Smoove tickets, click the ticket listing and you will be directed to SeatGeek’s checkout process to complete the information fields. It’s a way of working that comes naturally, he said, going back to when he was riffing jokes just to make his friends laugh, like in college when he took part in a live version of the Dating Game and answered his potential date’s questions with responses so ridiculous he briefly became a campus legend.