![]() | Hello reddit, I'm Larry Charles. You would possibly know me because the director of BORAT, BRUNO, THE DICTATOR, RELIGULOUS, DICKS: THE MUSICAL, MASKED AND ANONYMOUS and ARMY OF ONE. I’ve additionally directed lots of your favourite episodes of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM and wrote lots of your favourite SEINFELD episodes. My new e-book, COMEDY SAMURAI, is out now. It chronicles my life and work within the battleground of American comedy. Please, I urge you, ask me something! Right here's the place you should buy my e-book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/larry-charles/comedy-samurai/9781538771549/?lens=grand-central-publishing Ask me something! I'll be again at 3 PM ET immediately to reply your questions. Bio and extra data: From Peabody, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award-winning author/producer/director Larry Charles, COMEDY SAMURAI: 40 YEARS OF BLOOD, GUTS, AND LAUGHTER is a rollicking journey via fashionable American comedy, as he shares behind-the-scenes tales from his life's work. Grand Central will publish Charles’s memoir on June 17, 2025. To inform Larry Charles’s life story is to inform the story of recent American comedy. During the last 40 years, few comedians have been part of so many iconic, beloved initiatives. Larry was one of many authentic writers and producers on the primary 5 seasons of Seinfeld, government produced each Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage whereas directing 18 episodes of Curb and served because the showrunner for Mad About You. His movie directing credit embrace Borat, Bruno, and The Dictator, the comedian documentary Religulous (starring Invoice Maher), and Masked and Nameless (which he co-wrote with Bob Dylan who stars). In Comedy Samurai, Charles pulls again the curtain on the making of his profitable initiatives, providing sharp, never-before-told anecdotes about Jerry Seinfeld, Sacha Baron Cohen, Invoice Maher, Bob Dylan, Nic Cage, Mel Brooks, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, and Larry David, amongst many others. Larry Charles rose from the imply streets of Brooklyn and the working-class housing initiatives of Donald Trump’s nefarious father Fred, to turn into the director of Borat, Bruno, The Dictator and Religulous amongst others. He directed Bob Dylan and an all-star solid (Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Jessica Lange and Penelope Cruz amongst others) within the movie, Masked an Nameless which he and Dylan wrote collectively. He has additionally directed quite a few episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and was one of many authentic writers and producers of Seinfeld. Larry is a Peabody, Golden Globe, and Emmy-award winner. Because the Malibu fires, he, and his spouse and two canine are vagabonds. Again at 3 PM ET to reply your questions! submitted by /u/LarryCharlesAMA |
