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The Curb Your Enthusiasm star says, the British comedy was his touchstone. Now he is 's too, to try his personal blend of pathos and vulgarity in the audience here. He hopes that she just him

"If you react badly to something, we will discuss it" The mischievous kindness to his native unscrupulous Curb Your Enthusiasm character -. Jeff Greene, Larry David and accomplice Manager - Jeff Garlin, addresses the crowd at the Upright Citizens Brigade, Hollywood 's hot spot improvisation. It 's performances to fine-tune a hectic indeed for his series of shows in London' s Soho Theatre, and he enjoys the absurdity invites the audience to waste, how it performs. Nobody takes him to the offer - they are all enjoying themselves too much.

Garlin is noticeably slimmer than his blobular Curb physique, the result of a "get lean and go green" campaign detailed in his 2010 memoir My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World. But even after two and a half years without fast food and sugar, his 6ft 1in frame still houses a big build to match his big, husky voice. His features have shrunk into sharper focus, though, and with his close-cropped brown hair and black retro-geek glasses, Garlin now resembles a supersized Jewish Elvis Costello.

In his standup, Garlin human pathos mines - mostly his own. Whether he talks about his ingenious strategy for hiding the fact that he \ a whole tube of refrigerated cookie dough, or the time it the Sleeping Beauty Castle went to Disneyland eaten to raise his young son's foreskin in the ditch, Garlin Twins vulgarity with sensitivity and show how our dignity and our best intentions are hamstrung by shortcomings.

At the Upright Citizens Brigade, Garlin will start to heal in a funny bit about blow jobs for a cancer to bring the disarmament of straight male viewers to a hitherto unexplored willingness to perform fellatio. Gesturing around the stage, the crowd recognizes Garlin 's laugh and claimed his room at the same time. "I always say that the reason to make it easier for people is my job 's pain. But now both my parents have cancer, and in the last few months I' m doing standup more than I did in years. And it 's easing my pain. "

The public spaces on a sensitive hush to acknowledge that perhaps Garlin

The next day, we are sitting in his Los Angeles office, a small, spartan room hung with 60s TV comedy stills, a framed Radiohead poster (he is friends with the band) and a board covered in scene breakdowns for a film he is writing. A leather recliner for napping and meditation hulks in the corner.