--- title: Mitch McConnell Town Hall Becomes Curb Your Enthusiasm Spoof description: Mitch McConnell's encounter with an angry constituent at a town hall this week makes for a fitting episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' canonical: https://time.com/4680978/mitch-mcconnell-town-hall-curb-your-enthusiasm/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-23T22:37:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:22.531Z og:title: Watch Mitch McConnell's Intense Town Hall As a 'Curb' Episode og:description: It's pretty, pretty, pretty good og:url: https://time.com/4680978/mitch-mcconnell-town-hall-curb-your-enthusiasm/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Mitch McConnell's Intense Town Hall As a 'Curb' Episode twitter:description: It's pretty, pretty, pretty good twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Video of the Constituent Reprimanding Mitch McConnell Is the Latest to Get the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Treatment > Sponsored content. 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She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.”](http://time.com/4663698/elizabeth-warren-rule-xix-history/) ) quickly turned into an empowering catchphrase in the vein of [“nasty woman”](http://time.com/4543356/watch-elizabeth-warren-turn-donald-trumps-nasty-woman-line-against-him/) [spawning hashtags](https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/829379045729169410?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw), [think pieces](http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx%5Ffactor/2017/02/08/mitch%5Fmcconnell%5Finadvertently%5Fcoined%5Fthe%5Flatest%5Ffeminist%5Fcatchphrase%5Fshe.html) and, of course, [merch](http://time.com/money/4663703/nevertheless-she-persisted-elizabeth-warren-tshirt/). Now, McConnell’s latest encounter with a constituent has provided the Internet with the perfect fodder for the next viral hit. During a luncheon in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, [Rose Mudd Perkins](http://time.com/money/4678544/aca-town-halls-mcconnell-rose-mudd-perkins-video/) passionate questions about coal jobs in eastern Kentucky became a hit online. While there was no shortage of amusement online about this encounter, one citizen paired McConnell’s look of quiet, miserable despair during the confrontation with [the theme music from _Curb Your Enthusiasm_ ](http://time.com/4271230/curb-your-enthusiasm-theme-youtube/)and the results are “pretty, pretty, pretty good.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4680978/mitch-mcconnell-town-hall-curb-your-enthusiasm/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4680978/mitch-mcconnell-town-hall-curb-your-enthusiasm/"},"headline":"This Video of the Constituent Reprimanding Mitch McConnell Is the Latest to Get the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Treatment","datePublished":"2017-02-23T22:37:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:22.531Z","description":"It's pretty, pretty, pretty good","url":"https://time.com/4680978/mitch-mcconnell-town-hall-curb-your-enthusiasm/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","viral","Mitch McConnell","Funny","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4680978/mitch-mcconnell-town-hall-curb-your-enthusiasm/","name":"This Video of the Constituent Reprimanding Mitch McConnell Is the Latest to Get the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Treatment"}}]}] ```