curmudgeon

Simply maintaining its funny wouldn’t be especially remarkable, regardless of Ford’s admirable comic timing as the group’s unofficially patriarch/wise man/curmudgeon.

Larry is the lying, socially inept, passively offensive curmudgeon you wouldn’t be able to stand in real life.

It’s a perfect role for curmudgeon specialist Paul Giamatti, if not quite the pure pleasure of a loser he previously played for director Alexander Payne in “Sideways.”

I had no trouble coming up with a compilation, but because it makes me sound like a curmudgeon, I’ve created two separate lists: six things I won’t do in 2024, and eight things I will.

Grant is also a self-proclaimed miserable curmudgeon, which he’ll say with a straight face right before saying something completely contradictory.