Improv comedy techniques have also been used in television and stand-up comedy, in hit shows such as the recent HBO television show Curb Your Enthusiasm created by Larry David, the UK Channel 4 and ABC television series Whose Line Is It Anyway ( and its spinoffs Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza ), Nick Cannon's improv comedy show Wild ' N Out, and Thank God You're Here.

He made cameo appearances in the second season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing himself.

Alexander also appeared in the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, along with the other three principal Seinfeld cast members.

This phenomenon was mentioned throughout the second season of Larry David's HBO program Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Early in March 2009, it was announced that the Seinfeld cast would reunite for the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Though much of the dialogue in Curb Your Enthusiasm is improvised, the plot was scripted, and the Seinfeld special that aired within the show was scripted and directed by Seinfeld regular Andy Ackerman, making this the first time since Seinfeld went off the air that the central cast appeared together in a scripted show.

Although there were less in this decade than there were in the 1990s, the 2000s still saw many popular and notable sitcoms, including Will and Grace, Malcolm in the Middle, The King of Queens, Arrested Development, How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and 30 Rock, among many others.

In 2005, he voiced a horse in Racing Stripes, and appeared in cameo roles in Andy García's The Lost City and on the final episode of HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasms fifth season.

The phrase was also used in an episode of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (" The Survivor ", season 4, episode 9 ).

* Season four of Curb Your Enthusiasm revolves around The Producers.

In the 8th episode of Season 5 of Curb Your Enthusiasm David states that he " can't draw to save my life but yet I'm a very good doodler.

In 2001, she made several special guest appearances on Seinfeld co-creator Larry David's show Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing herself fictionally trying to break the " curse " by planning to star in a show in which she would play an actress affected by a Seinfeld-like curse.

In the fall of 2009, she appeared with rest of the cast of Seinfeld in four episodes of the seventh season of Larry David's sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Elsewhere, Amazing Stories, Friends, The Tick, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Histeria !, Wayside, Danny Phantom, CatDog, As Told By Ginger, Rugrats ( in " All Growed Up ", an episode which would form the basis of the spinoff All Grown Up !, for which she also provided voice work ), 7th Heaven, The Flintstones, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Metalocalypse.

* 1963: Curb Your Tongue, Knave!

Most recently, Richards appeared as himself in the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2009, acting alongside his fellow Seinfeld cast members for the first time since Seinfelds finale.

* Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series-Musical or Comedy for his role in Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2002, 2004, & 2005.

* Nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor-Comedy Series for his role in Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2012.

* Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good: Larry David and the Making of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm by Josh Levine ( ECW Press, 2010 )

B. Smoove-Actor and comedian, plays Leon Black on Curb Your Enthusiasm

* Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm ( 1999 – present )

Other series which subsequently aired on HBO, such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Extras, and Entourage, shared these traits.

She appeared as herself alongside Danson in the HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm.

* Larry David ( born 1947 ), actor / producer of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

In March 2004, Schwimmer appeared as himself on HBO's comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm.

In the 2000s, Kazurinsky guest-starred on popular comedy series such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and According to Jim.

In the reunion episode featured in the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, it is revealed in the years since the finale Jerry has donated sperm to Elaine that results in her having a daughter.

Curb Your Enthusiasm seasons come in a two-disc DVD set with ten episodes, with the exception of the release of season one encoded for region two, that contains three discs.

Turturro appeared in the eighth season episode " Car Periscope ," of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

In September 2007, she appeared in the sixth season of HBO ’ s Curb Your Enthusiasm as a mother of a family displaced by a hurricane and taken in by Larry and Cheryl.

He had a small role during the sixth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2008 as a barber who assaults and drives Larry David from his shop after David offends him.

Curb was also a sponsor for Dale Earnhardt during his 1980 Winston Cup championship winning season, and sponsored Darrell Waltrip's # 12 Toyota Tundra in the Craftsman Truck Series, driven by Joey Miller in 2006.

In 2011 he appeared on an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and has a recurring role as attorney Peter Goldman in season seven of The Closer.

This version of the story ( dated to 1937 ) is retold in episode 3, season 2, of comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm, when Larry David searches for evidence to prove that another character has falsely claimed that his grandfather invented the salad.

Following his Super Dave success, he had recurring roles as Marty Funkhouser in Curb Your Enthusiasm and Larry Middleman in the third season of Arrested Development.

Other television credits include a stint as a correspondent for The Daily Show's 2002 – 2003 season, as well as roles on The Sarah Silverman Program, Reno 911 !, The West Wing, The Good Guys, Friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Monk, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and, in November 2008, Desperate Housewives.

According to the reunion episode featured in the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jerry donated the sperm for Elaine's daughter.

During the 2001 season, Hornaday returned to the Busch Series on a part-time basis, running the # 11 for High Line Performance Group before finishing out the year with The Curb Agajanian Performance Group, posting three top-tens.

She appeared on the cult hit Curb Your Enthusiasm in the show's second season and is a series regular in Sony Television's drama The Client List.

* Pepitone is mentioned in the sixth season of the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm episode titled " The Anonymous Donor ", in which Larry David's Pepitone jersey gets lost at the dry cleaners.

* In the episode, " Mister Softee " in the eighth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry and Leon attend a baseball autograph signing where Leon says, " I'm gonna go check out Joe Pepitone up in here ," though Pepitone does not actually appear.

She went on to appear on television shows including the first 11 episodes of the first season of the sitcom Good Morning, Miami, playing Lucia Rojas-Klein ; and in episodes of Kitchen Confidential, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and One on One.