This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. On today's episode, we have my interview with Alex Edelman,

whose one-man Broadway show Just For Us, premiered as a special on HBO this past weekend and is streaming now on Max.

But first, my Daily Beast colleague, Allegra, is back,

and we are ready to dive into the Kirby Enthusiasm series finale. Allegra, welcome back.

Hello, happy to be back to talk about a historic moment in television. It really was. And I think

we have to start with the fact that you really nailed your

prediction last week about how this would play out because you noticed a bunch of references to the

Seinfeld finale throughout this final season. And that really paid off in this final episode.

Yeah. No, I mean, I think it feels a little obvious to me that he was going to just, you know, reference one of his biggest finale ever. I mean, one of the biggest finales ever and one of the biggest things Larry David has ever done. But it was kind of fun to see how he threaded that in with just sort of the subtle references. But the last episode really went so hard on it.

It was kind of just a redo in a lot of ways. Yeah, I mean, it was obviously on his mind, I guess, as he was thinking about how to end a show and the previous time he ended a show and how that went and how it was received.

And so, yeah, it was definitely interesting to see him very much doubled down on it as sort of the way that everyone's been talking about it, but also kind of try to fix it.

And I think we'll get to that final scene in a minute.

But, you know, just in terms of the episode overall, it was an extra long one, which was, I guess, should have been expected.

And I thought it was just packed with like lots which was, I guess, should have been expected. And I thought it was just

packed with like lots of little, obviously cameos and guest stars and pretty big name cameos,

like Greg Ceneer and Allison Janney, and then a lot of other little people popping up,

including Jerry Seinfeld, of course. But then just like so many, I feel like he was like trying to work in all of the like little ideas and jokes that he hadn't gotten in yet before it was too late.

So I don't know.

For you, was there a moment or sort of even one of those smaller moments from earlier in the episode before we got to that major Seinfeld finale part that stood out for you?

Yeah, I mean, in general, I thought it was so funny how Larry was kind of blasé about all of it.

Like, I was, he got more worked up about Richard Lewis's girlfriend for a while, which

like Allison Janie cameney cameo that was so

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