Larry David found it “torturous” to run the Emmy-winning sitcom Seinfeld , his biographer has said.

Blake J. Harris, the author behind the biography Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David, said in a new interview that David put himself under extreme pressure when working on the sitcom that launched his career in the 90s.

Speaking to The Daily Beast ’s Obsessed podcast, Harris said that ahead of the show's fifth season, which started airing in 1993, David told some associates during a lunch date that he would “rather spend a year in prison than do another season of Seinfeld .”

“Part of it is shtick or him being kind of funny, but part of it hints at how torturous it was for him to run Seinfeld ,” Harris explained.

He continued: “That torture largely came from the pressure he put on himself to come up with good ideas, which is a constant theme in the book.”

Larry David found it ‘torturous’ to run the hit sitcom ‘Seinfeld,’ his biographer has said (Getty)

According to Harris, David’s determination…