Salman Rushdie: Curb Your Enthusiasm got my OK for this season’s storyline

The Hollywood Reporter

"It's one of the weird things that happened to me” because the fatwa calling for his assassination was a very serious thing, the author tells Seth Meyers, adding: "In a funny way, Curb Your Enthusiasm making jokes about it is kind of cool because it diffuses it.” Rushdie adds that “they did run it by me…I don’t think they would have not done it if I had said no.”