According to Deadline, Ted Danson (Cheers, The Good Place) shares his honest reaction to HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm 25 years after being featured in the series. He expresses how the show changed his life after appearing as himself on the series. However, he originally believed that the Larry David (Whatever Works, The Three Stooges)-created sitcom “absolutely sucked.

“Curb really did change my life because it reinvigorated my desire to be funny,” Danson told co-star J.B. Smoove (Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, Real Husbands of Hollywood) on his Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast. “But we watched the pilot, Mary and I. Mary thought it was great. I thought it sucked.”

Danson added, “I thought it absolutely sucked, and I felt sorry for my new friend, Larry David. So, in trying to be an encouraging kind of thing, I said, ‘If you ever need us to play ourselves, we’d be happy to.’ And in that sort of idiocy, I ended up being part of something that changed my life.”

As per Deadline, since being on the series alongside his wife Mary Steenburgen (Las Vegas, Time After Time) in the episode titled “Ted and Mary,” Danson has appeared in over 24 episodes of the series.

Danson is known for many roles as an actor, most recently being Charles on Netflix’s A Man on the Inside.

Curb Your Enthusiasm has run for 12 seasons with the new season premiering earlier this year. The series ran from 1999 to 2011 until HBO revived it in 2017. Each season of the series features a whole new set of cast members, some of whom are series regulars. Each episode in the series is written by David and follows a different, plot and subplot each time. Although every episode is different the series follows David on different adventures in a comedic fashion.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is available to stream on Max.