Larry Charles (born February 20, 1956) is an American writer, director, and producer. He is best known as a staff writer for the American sitcom Seinfeld for its first 5 seasons, contributing some of the show's darkest and most absurd storylines. He has also directed the films Borat, Religulous, Brüno, and The Dictator. Description above from the Wikipedia article Larry Charles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, and the search for footage. Includes interviews with Lewis' associates and previously unseen production content.
Release Date: 2025-04-20
Character: Self (archive footage)
This is a completely uncut unexpurgated interview with arguably the most important philosopher of our time, Slavoj Zizek conducted at Tatiana's on the boardwalk in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
Release Date: 2024-06-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character:
Two self-obsessed businessmen discover they're long-lost identical twins and come together to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced parents.
Release Date: 2023-10-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 37
Legendary comedy writer and director Larry Charles travels the world in search of humor in the most unusual, unexpected and dangerous places.
Release Date: 2019-02-15
Character: Himself
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 8
Hit rewind and explore the most iconic moments and influential people of The Nineties, the decade that gave us the Internet, DVDs, and other cultural and political milestones.
Release Date: 2017-07-09
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 21
Explore what makes us laugh, why, and how that's influenced our social and political landscape throughout history.
Release Date: 2017-02-09
Character: Self
Episode Count: 14
Vote Count: 9
Gary Faulkner is an ex-con, unemployed handyman, and modern day Don Quixote who receives a vision from God telling him to capture Osama Bin Laden. Armed with only a single sword purchased from a home-shopping network, Gary travels to Pakistan to complete his mission. While on his quest, Gary encounters old friends back home in Colorado, the new friends he makes in Pakistan, the enemies he makes at the CIA - and even God and Osama themselves.
Release Date: 2016-11-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Interviewer
Vote Count: 306
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.
Release Date: 2016-04-18
Character: Self
Vote Count: 20
A veteran comedian is reluctantly paired with a younger, edgier comedian for a late-night comedy sketch show.
Release Date: 2015-04-09
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 13
Vote Count: 18
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Release Date: 2012-05-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6008
Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.
Release Date: 2011-09-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1500
Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
Release Date: 2009-07-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1769
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about their faith. Traveling around the world, Maher examines the tenets of Christianity, Judaism and Islam and raises questions about homosexuality, proof of Christ's existence, Jewish Sabbath laws, violent Muslim extremists.
Release Date: 2008-10-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Self
Vote Count: 601
2007 unaired HBO pilot of a Kanye West series inspired by Larry David.
Release Date: 2008-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.
Release Date: 2006-11-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5557
A documentary detailing the troubled beginnings of “the show about nothing”.
Release Date: 2004-11-23
Vote Count: 8
Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Release Date: 2004-07-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Audition Producer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 568
A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on raking in huge sums for himself from the event. Headlining is legendary musician Jack Fate, whose prison time is cut short with Sweetheart's help. Meanwhile, journalist Tom Friend investigates the corrupt concert and sets out to unmask the truth to the public.
Release Date: 2003-07-25
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 51
A performance of Bob Dylan's song "Cold Irons Bound" from the film "Masked and Anonymous," directed by Larry Charles.
Release Date: 2003-03-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors, comedians, musicians and the like to discuss what's going on in the world.
Release Date: 2003-02-21
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 217
Based on Ben Edlund's cult comic, a mysterious blue avenger teams up with an odd group of superheroes to fight crime.
Release Date: 2001-11-08
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 9
Vote Count: 92
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
Release Date: 2000-10-15
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 80
Vote Count: 811
Mock documentary about Seinfeld writer Larry David featuring contributions from his friends and colleagues. Larry makes a return to stand-up comedy and prepares to film a television special for HBO. This is the original special that gave birth to the long-running award-winning HBO series.
Release Date: 1999-10-17
Character: Self
Vote Count: 89
Dilbert is an animated television series adaptation of the comic strip of the same name, produced by Adelaide Productions, Idbox, and United Media and distributed by Columbia TriStar Television. The first episode was broadcast on January 25, 1999, and was UPN's highest-rated comedy series premiere at that point in the network's history; it lasted two seasons on UPN and won a Primetime Emmy before its cancellation.
Release Date: 1999-01-25
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 30
Vote Count: 63
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.
Release Date: 1997-08-11
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 99
Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.
Release Date: 1992-09-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 18
Vote Count: 228
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
Release Date: 1989-07-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Unresponsive Man
Episode Count: 19
Vote Count: 2119
Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of 2011, Monsters airs on NBC Universal's horror/suspense-themed cable channel Chiller in sporadic weekday marathons. In a similar vein to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and in some ways succeeded the show. It differed in some respects nonetheless. While Tales sometimes dabbled in stories of science fiction and fantasy, this series was more strictly horror. As the name implies, each episode of Monsters featured a different monster which the story concerned, from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats. Similar to Tales, however, the stories in Monsters were rarely very straightforward action plots and often contained some ironic twist in which a character's conceit or greed would do him in, often with gruesome results. Adding to this was a sense of comedy often lost on horror productions which might in some instances lighten the audience's mood but in many cases added to the overall eeriness of the production.
Release Date: 1988-10-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 23
Fridays is the name of ABC's weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982.
Release Date: 1980-04-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 60
Vote Count: 5
Larry David sits down with friend/director Larry Charles for a peek behind the proverbial curtain, as David gets candid about his personal and professional highs and lows, from his humble beginnings as an unfunny Brooklyn kid to becoming America's favorite misanthrope. In between reflecting on his bumpy road to success – and hit series “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” – David shares his thoughts on everything from metaphysics to parenthood.
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Self
Episode Count: 2