Larry Charles

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Larry Clive Charles (born December 1, 1956) is an American comedian, screenwriter, actor, and producer.

For the first five seasons, he served as a staff writer on the show's darkest and most bizarre storylines.

Borat, Brüno, and The Dictator have all produced documentaries Religulous and the mockumentary comedy films.

Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy premiered in 2019.

Early life

Charles was raised in a Jewish family in Trump Village, Brooklyn, New York, sandwiching Brighton Beach and Coney Island.

He attended Rutgers University in New Jersey after graduating from John Dewey High School, but he left school to do comedy routines.

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Career

Charles did stand-up comedy in the 1970s before being asked to write for the short-lived sketch comedy show Fridays, where he performed with Larry David. This was the start of Charles' career in television writing, which included The Arsenio Hall Show and later Seinfeld. David Seinfeld's writing debut on Seinfeld and his debut as a writer on Curb Your Enthusiasm, the actor's first on Seinfeld.

Although series co-creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld wrote the bulk of the show's episodes during the early seasons, Charles was their second in command during this period. When Charles first joined Seinfeld's writing staff on Fridays, David and Michael Richards were also included in the show's ensemble cast. Charles had been unable to write for the show's first season because he had been writing for The Arsenio Hall Show.

Charles is credited with several of the show's more nuanced plotlines and scenes. In the season two episode "The Baby Shower" Charles wrote a dream sequence in which Jerry Seinfeld, the title character, was killed. "The Limo" also featured Nazis (in "The Limo"), a psychotic stalker (in "The Opera"), and a hospital patient commiting suicide (in "The Bris." He wrote "The Bet," about Elaine purchasing a handgun to shield herself from the show's producers, but the gun story was never shot because NBC, some of the cast, and the show's producer felt the gun content was too provocative. Charles said that his writing on Seinfeld was heavily inspired by Dragnet, Superman, Abbott, and Costello.

Charles was instrumental in the creation of Cosmo Kramer; he believed that "Jerry and George were so well defined by Larry David and Jerry that they no longer had time for me to, well, expand on those personas. At the beginning of the show, Kramer was very young, so it gave me a lot of imagination to expand on. I spent a lot of time with Kramer because he was a character with whom I could have a bearing on the show's future. It was Charles who instilled in Kramer a fear of authority (particularly in his series "The Baby Shower" and "The Heart Attack") and created the character of Kramer's most adamant uncle Bob Sacamano after his real-life friend of the same name.

Masked and Anonymous (2003), Charles' debut film, was directed, and co-wrote with Bob Dylan (under the pseudonyms Rene Fontaine and Sergei Petrov, respectively). The film received mixed reviews from audiences and critics alike; it did not do well at the box office. "I want the film to be like a great Bob Dylan song that is listened to over and over and over and over again, and for viewers, I want the movie to be like a great Bob Dylan song that is listened to over and over again and see a lot more things, or completely different things."

Borat!, Sacha Baron Cohen's second feature film as director, was much more fruitful; it "set new records in terms of profitability; on a budget of 18 million dollars, it grossed in excess of 261 million dollars." "We all, especially me," Charles explained in an interview, how, because of the humor of the mockumentary process, he had to act as well, even though none of his films made it to the screen: "We all, especially me," says the actor. When we first met, I wasn't Larry Charles. We had to be in character to be able to produce the film properly, but we also had to act." At the Golden Globes, the film was nominated for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy.

Religulous — Bill Maher's reflection on the state of modern life — Charles' third film, Religulous, was released in October 2008.

Charles rarely appears live, but he has appeared at Un-Cabaret and can be heard on several of its podcasts.

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