Larry Charles is the director behind Sascha Baron Cohen's "Borat" and now "Bruno". He also directed "Masked & Anonymous" with Bob Dylan and "Religulous" with Bill Maher, was a consulting producer and director on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Entourage" and showrunner and executive producer of "The Tick", "Mad About You" and "Dilbert". He also won multiple Emmys as a writer and producer for "Seinfeld", so apparently he knows what he's talking about.

In this excerpt from The Other Network Writers Room series, Larry talks about 'cracking the code' of "Seinfeld" with Larry David and "Borat" with Sascha Baron Cohen.

The full interview is loaded with other inspirational insights plus practical tips about writing comedy and how to get into the business. Get the mp3 digi-download of Larry's interview here - or get the entire Writers Room series (over 9 hours of great inside info from big-time comedy machers like Michael Patrick King, Seth MacFarlane, Alan Zweibel, etc.).

If you have an Oscar hangover and are feeling a little nauseated by other people winning, here's a drop in the other bucket.

Larry Charles says he wants to be remembered as much for his failures as for his successes -- which may be easier to say when your successes include Borat, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Mad About You, Dilbert, The Tick and Religulous.

Anyway, we're granting his wish, and reassuring you that no one wins all the time, by posting a piece of his piece "Fragments of Failure" as performed at Un-Cabaret's Say the Word. You can hear the whole thing next week when it joins the amazing archive of our comedy standup and spoken word performances on audible.com.