Curve Your Enthusiasm," a short story too painful for Apple, leaked.

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Curve Your Enthusiasm," a short story too painful for Apple, leaked.

Update: Apple's mighty lawyers didn't find this funny, and the original upload has disappeared from Youtube. Google it and you'll find a mirror.

Original story: a 10-minute long episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," created for the opening of Apple's 2014 World Developer's Conference but ultimately rejected, has leaked online. The episode features Larry David as the "App Approver," who reads an elevator pitch for an iOS app and decides whether or not to approve it with a big ink stamper. Other members of the cast play Apple employees, app developers, etc., and the funniest recurring theme is Larry's deep dislike of Snapchat.

"By the way, why is the bird always mad at this app?

It must be said that Apple's reasons for rejecting this are obvious. It is very true to the tone of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and gets most of its humor from addressing awkwardness and social taboos.

What raised eyebrows early on was the comparison of Apple's adherence to door security rules to Nazi Germany (Larry: "Well, they were organized!") ), and before entering the realm of extreme bad taste with some made-up apps, Larry gets into an argument with J.B. Smoove. This final exchange ends with the two of them telling each other their respective mottos of "no bites for white people" and "no snacks for black people," at which point Tim Cook himself must have slammed the "reject" stamp with considerable force.

Larry David must not have minded. The amount must have been tremendous, as he does not usually do anything promotional. Until the leak, this must have been a dream job.

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