Curb Your Enthusiasm season 9: Larry David is 'thinking about coming back'

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Larry David is edging ever closer toward making a new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, even phoning cast member J.B. Smoove to make sure he’d be free to film it.

"I call Larry every two weeks, because he's old, he's a busy man, so I always check on older people," Smoove, who plays Leon Black , said on The Rich Eisen Show earlier this week. "I just talk about regular stuff with him, it's not always Curb stuff. But this time, aha! He brings up Curb Your Enthusiasm; I don't ever bring it up."

"He starts off with his little, 'Ehhhhh, you know, I'm thinking about coming back.' But see, that's great because he has not said no, which puts us in a great position for possibilities ... that means it's still going.

“And then he went extra. He said, 'If I do come back, would you be available?' I said, 'You know something Larry, I'll be available. just call me, give me early notice, and I'll be there.' I'll move anything to the side for Curb Your Enthusiasm, which would be a fabulous thing to do. Season nine would be fabulous."

Larry has been kicking around the idea of new episodes for a while now, previously taunting the HBO president Michael Lombardo with a notebook of season 9 Curb ideas and meeting with Curb director Jeff Schaffer to discuss the possibility of a movie.

Last year, Lombardo asked him if he should ”emotionally get Curb out of [his] head," to which the Seinfeld creator replied: "No, no, no, no, no."