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Art Streiber / HBO In his HBO sketch series “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness,” Larry David travels throughout history, inserting his stubborn and curmudgeonly self into America’s most pivotal moments. “Lawrence,” as he’s often called, fights in the trenches of World War I, heckles George Washington during his Farewell Address and defends Rosa Parks on a Montgomery bus (for all the wrong reasons, of course).
The show is produced by Barack Obama through his and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground banner. So it’s only right that, in the series finale, Obama stepped in to reexamine the most historically important moment in his presidency. Not the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Iran Nuclear Deal or the legalization of same-sex marriage. No, something far more momentous and presidency-defining: the time he ignited a media firestorm by wearing a tan-colored suit to a 2014 press conference about ISIS. (The sartorial choice, which has its own Wikipedia page, saw Obama lambasted as “unpresidential,” was criticized by news outlets ranging from the New York Times to GQ to Fox News.)
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