Larry David reveals why he hates Christmas

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When it comes to Christmas, Larry David takes his cues from Ebenezer Scrooge.

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In a new piece for Graydon Carter’s Air Mail , the Curb Your Enthusiasm star opened up on why he hates all holidays and in particular Christmastime.

“I’m a creature of habit and can’t tolerate anything that throws me off my normal routine,” David writes in the piece titled A Very Larry David Christmas . “That’s why I detest all holidays, but none as much as Christmas.”

The Seinfeld co-creator went on to say that his open disdain for the season has meant a slow end to the endless party invitations in the lead-up to Dec. 25.

“Over the years, my Scrooginess at these Christmas Day gatherings became so intolerable that in due course everyone realized how much better the day would be without my off-putting, nay, offensive presence. The invites began to wane until, eventually, they ceased altogether, and then it finally happened — I was to be alone on Christmas Day … All those years of complaining and kvetching finally paid off.”

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David reveals that he now spends the day alone, “Eating Chinese food by myself.”

In addition to hating having to return “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Holidays” greetings “like unwanted ‘I love you’s,’” David also loathes holiday music and movies, as well as the very act of opening presents.

“There’s the loathsome music. The movies with their ridiculous, treacly sentiments. The presents — thinking about them, shopping for them (never without resentment), and the attendant pile of garbage that accumulates from opening them, an environmental disaster simultaneously taking place in living rooms across the country.”

David also complained about how the “nonsensical holiday spirit dissolves the next day as quickly as an Alka-Seltzer,” adding that when the day is finally over it’s “like the ending of construction on the house next door.”

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