You're listening to D Beach Sessions.

This man here in the Cowboy Hat, one of the things that I wanted to do with this project in general is talk to the creatives who make the creatives and find out a

little more about creativity.

So Larry Charles, if you're not familiar necessarily, because this is a behind the scenes person,

but what he's made, Curb Your Enthusiasm has directed many episodes.

You wrote for Seinfeld, mad about you, the Borat movies,

Religulous. You have worked entourage with all of the crazies, all of the creative crazies and

some of the best. I didn't even mention Kanye West. I haven't mentioned yet, Nick Cage.

Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan. So you gravitate, thank you for being

with us. You gravitate toward the eccentric. That's why I'm, that's why I'm here. What is it? Like,

what is the magnet for you? Like, how did this start your trip to, toward laughter? Where did it start?

My father was a failed comedian and um he was funny around

the house all the time always doing schick always doing impressions always doing material um his professional

name was psycho the exotic neurotic uh and very early in his career, he realized he wasn't

going to make it and gave it up reluctantly, and I think regretted it his entire life. But I

would find in his closet, I would find old material from the army. And he would make me watch

movies with him and test me and quiz me on stuff.

And he would make me learn, instead of like learning math or science, I would learn bits

from the Marx brothers or from other movies like white heat and weird James Cagney kind of stuff.

And I think he kind of, and then he had friends.

He went to drama school, and a lot of the people that he went to drama school with

stayed in the business in one form or another, not always his actors, and he would take me

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