'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Season 9 Confirmed: Real George Costanza Larry David Returns to HBO!

Five years after Larry David bid farewell to the fictionalized version of himself he played in Curb Your Enthusiasm for eight seasons, it seems the Seinfeld co-creator is returning to the role: HBO has just confirmed Season 9 of the life of real-life George Costanza!

Through a press release on Medium, HBO just confirmed that David's Curb Your Enthusiasm would be returning to his spot on primetime television, and the star didn't miss the opportunity to throw in his famous self-deprecating humor.

"In the immortal words of Julius Caesar, 'I left, I did nothing, I returned,'" David commented in the press release.

The announcement that David would return to Curb Your Enthusiasm came only days after BGR reported on rumors that the critically acclaimed single-camera comedy show could be coming back to television. Days back, J.B. Smoove, best known for playing Leon Black on Curb, said David was already considering going back to the sitcom -- and fans might have the presidential campaign to thank for that.

It seems likely that the project to bring back Curb Your Enthusiasm was greenlit after David's role in numerous recent Saturday Night Live sketches, as he has embodied one of the biggest names in the current political climate.

Throughout the current presidential campaign, it has been pointed out that David shares an uncanny resemblance to Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders, and the writer and comedian lost no time to play the Vermont Senator on the long-running NBC variety show, and Sanders himself even came along for the ride on one occasion.

Since Curb Your Enthusiasm ended in 2011, David has been keeping busy, although not necessarily on camera: he co-wrote and starred in the Broadway play Fish in the Dark last year and, while he had a Thanksgiving special on HBO in 2012, it wasn't until his recent stints in SNL that he regularly came back to television. He also appeared on the very first episode of Jerry Seinfeld's web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

In all, David has an impressive career in the entertainment business that goes back a couple of decades, being involved in writing 80s show Fridays. Of course, his most famous role in popular culture was as the co-creator of Seinfeld, as well as the foundation for the character of George Costanza, immortalized in the small screen by Jason Alexander. Due to syndication in the two decades since the show ended, these days David is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.