Larry Charles: ‘Seinfeld,’ Larry David and ‘Dicks: The Musical’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Even if you don’t know Larry Charles’ name, his work is inescapable. He spent years as a writer on ‘Seinfeld’ before starting his career as a director on shows like ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and movies like Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Borat’ and ‘Brüno.’ Now, after swearing off Hollywood, he’s back with what might be his most “transgressive” movie yet, ‘Dicks: The Musical,’ a truly deranged comedy about two “straight” twins who were separated at birth and ultimately fall in love. In this episode, Charles reveals why this was the project that got him to narrative filmmaking and shares stories from the sets of ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘Curb,’ ‘Borat’ and more. Plus, the director opens up more than ever before about the major falling out he had with longtime collaborator Larry David after HBO pulled their documentary project at the very last minute.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. I hope you all had a great |
| 0:10.5 | Thanksgiving and had a chance to catch up on the new episodes we've been putting out. I've been |
| 0:15.4 | getting some really positive feedback on our conversations with Whitney Cummings and Mike Barbiglia. |
| 0:20.2 | So if you've enjoyed those |
| 0:21.6 | episodes, it would mean a ton to me if you would take just a few seconds to let us know by leaving |
| 0:26.9 | a rating and review on Apple or Spotify. So those two comedians were first on this podcast during |
| 0:33.7 | our very first run of episodes back in 2019. But today's guest is someone I have wanted to have on from the beginning, |
| 0:40.5 | so I'm glad we've finally made it happen for this week. |
| 0:43.9 | It's quite possible you don't know Larry Charles' name, |
| 0:47.6 | or for that matter his face, |
| 0:49.5 | but you most certainly know his work, |
| 0:51.8 | from starting out as a writer on Seinfeld |
| 0:54.0 | to directing the original |
| 0:55.3 | Borat and Bruno movies with Sasha Baron Cohen, to continuing his close collaboration with |
| 1:00.8 | Larry David on Kirby Enthusiasm and so much more. Larry has been almost like a Forrest Gump figure |
| 1:07.8 | helping to create some of the absolute funniest comedy of the past 40 or so years. |
| 1:13.1 | And his latest film as a director just might be his most audacious yet, which is saying a lot for a man who choreographed the naked fight scene in Borat. |
| 1:22.5 | I'm talking, of course, about Dix the Musical, which is a completely bat-shit adaptation of a show called |
| 1:28.8 | Fucking Identical Twins, written by and starring Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson that started |
| 1:34.5 | its life at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in New York nearly a decade ago. |
| 1:39.5 | To round out the cast, Larry helped bring in notable names like S&L's Bowen Yang, Megan the Stallion, |
| 1:45.3 | Megan Mowali, and previous last laugh guest Nathan Lane, who in this clip introduces both |
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