Larry Charles Dewey High School, he attended college at Rutgers University in New Jersey, but he left school to perform comedy routines. Larry Charles performed stand-up comedy during the 1970s until he was hired to write for the short-lived sketch comedy show "Fridays", where he worked with Larry David, who would later give him a job as a writer on "Seinfeld" and director on "Curb Your Enthusiasm". This began Charles's career in television writing that included "The Arsenio Hall Show" and eventually "Seinfeld". Although series co-creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld wrote the bulk of the show's episodes during the first five
The Larry Sanders Show Brett Butler, Ellen DeGeneres, and Drew Carey. Garry Shandling took a slightly different path with the cable network sitcoms "The Larry Sanders Show" and its forerunner "It's Garry Shandling's Show". In "It's Garry Shandling's Show", Shandling makes use of the George Burns technique of directly addressing the audience. He speaks to the studio and home audiences as well as the other actors, often in quick succession. In both shows celebrity guests appear as themselves and Shandling essentially plays himself: a star of a television show and stand-up comedian with a distinctive "comic persona and rhythm". Shandling said, in an interview