Comedy Samurai
Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and Laughter

Great book My experiences with Larry Charles are exactly as depicted in this book. That has never happened to me. I loved all of it. Stories that I knew were filled with things I never knew. It’s a honest journey and excellently written.......more

Charles’s memoir is a wild, behind-the-scenes tour of four decades in comedy, from the mean streets of Brooklyn to the even meaner writers’ rooms of Hollywood. He’s not a polished narrator, but he’s a natural-born storyteller, and frankly, no one else could do justice to his own tale. Charles was the......more

My thanks to NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for an advance copy of this new memoir about a man who had to fail in a lot of different ways to find the humor that is all around us, and present it to the world. Hollywood is not a fun place. Especially for a comedy writer. One can get the job of......more

First, thank you to NetGalley and the publisher Grand Central Publishing. The highs are high and the lows are low in this memoir by the comedy mind that worked closely on Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiam, Borat, plus many other productions. I hope Larry (Charles) is alright. He comes across as dark and......more

Larry Charles' memoir, Comedy Samurai: Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and Laughter, offers a candid and often irreverent look into the life of one of modern comedy's most influential figures. Known for his work on Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and films like Borat and Religulous, Charles chronicles h......more