Larry Charles is a professional comedy writer who has advanced from selling jokes on the street to a performer in clubs to a team writer for major comedic figures to a show runner and to a producer and director of a major TV series and movies.

His memoir, “Comedy Samurai: Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and Laughter,” details that journey from being “a clueless kid from Brooklyn” to the top shelf of the business. His work includes “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Entourage,” “Borat,” “Bruno” and “The Dictator.”

Ultimately Charles did make the big time, winning multiple major nominations and awards, but the roads there were rocky. He elaborates his self-definition of Comedy Samurai, writing “I took a violent approach to comedy. A seriousness. An intensity. I treated comedy like life and death. Honor

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