Guardian interviews Curb's Essman

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on July 9th, 2007

Get an idea of how Susie Essman‘s life has changed by reading the interview from last Thursday’s U.K. Guardian.

Her foul-mouthed Susie Greene is a favorite character for many Curb Your Enthusiasm fans.

Pre-Curb, Essman forged a respectable comedy career (she used to keep a tally of her gigs, which exceeded 3,500) alongside minor roles in movies such as Crocodile Dundee II. But Curb Your Enthusiasm has shifted the goalposts. “For years,” she says, “you’d get onstage, but the audience was not your audience. It’s not people who are there to see you. Now I draw my own audience – it is just a delight. I don’t have to win these people over. They get me. So I can totally let rip.”

Essman’s fictional husband is played by standup comic Jeff Garlin.