You’re Not Gonna Believe Who Was a Curmudgeon at the Paul McCartney Concert

A few months back, Paul McCartney staged a pair of intimate club shows at the Fonda in Los Angeles. A who’s who of celebrities showed up across both nights, everyone from Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and Olivia Rodrigo, to Harrison Ford, Jimmy Kimmel, and Macca’s old running mate Ringo Starr. And by all account’s everyone had a great time, singing and dancing along as the former Beatle ran through a career-spanning set pulling from his six-decade career. Well, with one notable exception.

As revealed on Thursday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Larry David was also in attendance for one of McCartney’s gigs at the Fonda, and Kimmel recalled seeing the Curb Your Enthusiasm star standing silent during “Hey Jude.”

Kimmel: “I witnessed something at a Paul McCartney concert. Two months ago, the whole audience was singing ‘Hey Jude’ along with Paul McCartney—with the notable exception of one person. And who do you guess that person was?”

David: “You know, everybody’s going, they’re standing and they’re swaying… and it is so lame. Okay? You think I’m going to ‘na, na, na’? What kind of person do you think I am?  I saw you “na, na, na”-ing. You didn’t look very cool. I can tell you that. But I don’t understand it. Why do people do that? What prompted you to ‘na, na, na’? Why would you do it?”

Kimmel: “I just feel like if Paul McCartney is going to stand there and ‘na, na, na’…”

David: “He wrote the song. He’s allowed, that’s in the song: ‘na, na, na.'”

Kimmel: “It seemed like he wanted us to ‘na, na, na.'”

David: “He did, but you don’t have to listen to him.”

Kimmel: “Well, that’s where we disagree. You have to listen to him. He wants this from us. We’ve given him nothing. He’s given us so much. Why wouldn’t you do a little “na, na, na’?”

David: I’ve given him a little something.

Kimmel: “What did you give him? You didn’t even pay for those tickets, did you? You got those for free.”

David: “You think I would pay for that?”

David’s new show, Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, premieres June 26th on HBO.