Larry David Stunned By His Mother’s Secret History and REAL Name | Finding Your Roots | Ancestry®

Comedian Larry David is shocked to discover family secrets about his notoriously tight-lipped mother – including her real name! Watch Larry’s astonishing reaction after learning about his mother’s mysterious past and origins on PBS’s Finding Your Roots.

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00:00 Introduction
0:20 Larry David has questions about his mother’s roots
1:29 Larry David finds his grandmother’s naturalization records
2:32 Larry David shocked by family secret

[AncestryUS]

Larry’s mother’s secret history is astounding! Share a jaw-dropping moment from your family history journey with us!

[juanestonia]

You can tell Larry really wishes to be able to walk into a room to see his mom and go "well, well, monologue)

[RicG.]

I thought Larry was gonna find out that his mother's real last name was Costanza. 😅 🤣 😂

[joeschmoe]

Realizing after she is gone that you never knew your mother’s real name… that has to hurt the heart. I think Larry was understandably flooded with emotions when he found that out.

[nGUNNARp]

has larry david looked this age his entire life? like i swear he's looked the exact same the entire 31 years i've been alive

[ememchi]

I just love that it’s so Larry to say “Regina?! Oh my God!!! That’s a great name, why didn’t she use that name, don’t you like that name?!”😂 That’s such a Seinfeld/Curb line right there.

[joyannesloan]

I can't be the only one who noticed that he seemed actually hurt by this revelation. A mother withholding the truth, even something as simple as her own name, is unsettling and makes one wonder why. Not being able to trust your own kids with your true name cannot feel good to them. He instinctively uses humor to disguise how he really feels. Go to 3:47 and look at the expression on his face when he says "yeah, secrets"

[maxdaly]

Superfein is the best last name I’ve ever heard.

[ARKHAMxMaverick]

Every interview with Larry is just another episode of Curb your Enthusiasm, and I love that.

[actuallyitskevin]

I would watch a show of Larry David doing literally anything.

[IGNANTLIFE]

L: "I missed my mother's funeral?!" 
N: "She said not to bother you while you were in New York."

[maxuntonodo]

When my mother died my father went to get the death certificate. He tells the clerk her age of death is wrong. The clerk said. I’m going to tell you two things. First this is how old she was when she died. Second I see this all the time. She had led my father to believe she was 11 years younger than she actually was.

[nathanwailes]

I feel so bad for Larry. My mom is a little like that but not nearly to the same degree. This was a really nice thing for Ancestry to do for him.

[jesusnthedaisychain]

My grandmother was the same way. She always told everybody that her middle name was "Marie, " because she liked to play up her French-Canadian heritage as well as her Catholic heritage. All of her daughters have the middle name of Marie, too. Looking through records, I was able to find out that her middle name was a 2-parter: Mary Jane. The least French-looking name I had ever seen. My aunt revealed that grandma wasn't too thrilled with her middle name.

But she was a lot like Larry's mom, in that she'd never share stories with me about her parents, grandparents, etc... I was almost 10 years old before I learned that she had a sister (a sister who lived in the same county as us) and I was even older before I learned that her mother was buried in a cemetery less than 20 miles from my childhood home. It was frustrating, because I couldn't shut my paternal grandmother up when it came to telling me about her family, but my maternal grandmother? Not a word. She'd get irritated if you asked, so I just learned not to ask. And all of my aunts and uncles are the same way, too. It's like pulling teeth with those people.

[rrfirefly]

It's great to see Larry's expression when he learns his mother's birth name.
Yes, Regina is a wonderful name.

[TheShomronhills]

My late mom, born in 1919, was born and raised in Tarnopol Poland. She survived the Holocaust but her mom 2 sisters and a nephew were gassed in Belzec in 1942.

[QuietLionGaming]

“Regina! That name is PRETTAY PRETTAY PRETTAYTYY, PRETTAY GOOD.”

[DennisNedryisStillAlive]

I could see Larry making a Curb episode of him arguing with his mother about withholding secrets from him 😂

[carnacthemagnificent]

Around 1915 or so my grandmothers much older brother disappeared. Nobody ever saw him again. Sometime in the '60s my grandmother found a stack of letters in her mom's things and they were all from the missing brother. But his return address was to a totally different name, Irish instead of polish. He changed his identity and my great grandmother kept his secret until the day she died. By that point the brother was dead but imagine the shock of his living children when my grandmother reached out and told them they were really polish and their father's backstory was all made up. One was fascinated and embraced by grandmother as family. The other refused to accept it and would not speak to her. Family secrets .... touchy subjects.

[Escatonic]

The same thing happened to me. Shortly after my mother passed away my sister and I got involved with an ancestry project and we found our mother's baptismal record. Her name was NOTHING like what we'd heard all our lives. We found that on my father's side that similar things happened. One uncle's name was changed three times before he was 5 years old. Back then there was no legal method of name changing. They just started calling themselves by a different name and signing documents with the new name. My father went into the Air Force in the 50's and for one reason or another his first and middle names were transposed....so for the rest of his life he went by his Air Force name. The further you dig in ancestry the more strange things get.