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Today I am speaking with Bill Marr and Larry Charles. Bill, you all know, I trust.

You know him principally from his HBO show Real Time, which I've been on a few times over the years.

Bill is certainly one of our most politically engaged comics. He still does a ton of stand-up,

and he's also an executive producer on Vice Media on HBO, and just a super productive guy.

The occasion of this podcast was the 10th anniversary of his documentary, Religilus,

which was directed by my other guest, Larry Charles. Now Larry has been hugely influential in comedy.

He wrote for the Seinfeld show for the first five seasons. He also directed Sasha

Baron Cohen's films, Borat and Bruno. He's also worked on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage.

He's just won the 800-pound guerrillas of comedy, and also a very nice guy. I'd never met him before,

but it was a real pleasure to sit down with him. Because we were celebrating the 10th anniversary

of Religilus, the first half of our conversation or so is focused on the film. I think you'll enjoy

that part more if you've actually seen the film. It's not that you'll have no idea what's going on

if you haven't, but I recommend that you watch it. It's very funny. Again, even if you've seen it

before, you just can't believe where people are at on the topic of religion. It's really,

it's quite a view of the human mind. But otherwise, we touch several other topics. We're mostly focused

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