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Albert Brooks (born July 22, 1947 as Albert Lawrence Einstein) is an Academy Award nominated American actor, writer, comedian and director. Biography Early life Brooks was born Albert Lawrence Einstein in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California to a Jewish American family. His father, Harry Einstein, was a comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyarkarkus. His mother was actress Thelma Leeds (born Thelma Goodman). His brother is Bob Einstein, better known by his stage name "Super Dave Osborne". Brooks grew up among show business royalty in southern
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Albert Brooks is a writer, comedian, actor, and director. Born Albert Einstein on July 22, 1947, in Los Angeles, CA, Brooks attended Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, PA, then changed his surname and began a standup career which quickly made him a staple on variety and talk shows during the late '60s/early '70s. Brooks's onstage persona was that of an egotistical, nervous comic. He made two successful comedy albums, and left the standup circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker. His first film was a satiric short The Famous Comedians School which appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary comedy sub-genre. He then directed six short films for the first season of NBC's Saturday Night Live, in 1975.
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Albert Brooks has an unparalleled entertainment resume, including careers as a comedian, actor, writer, and director. Mike Cuthbert is joined by Movies for Grownups host Bill Newcott, who talked with Brooks about his new film, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.
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Albert Brooks has a new movie: Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. In it, he plays himself -- and the comedian is sent to India and Pakistan by the State Department to find out what makes Muslims laugh.
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Though it may sound like one of his cerebral comedy routines, Albert Brooks came into this world as Albert Einstein. The son of comedian Harry Einstein (better known to millions of radio fans as Parkyakarkus), Brooks briefly attended Carnegie Tech before launching a hills-and-valley career as a standup comic. Like such contemporaries as George Carlin and Robert Klein, Brooks delighted in finding humor in the inconsistencies of everyday life, and had a particular fondness for exploiting clichés that many people never realized were clichés. Two of his most fondly remembered routines involved a talking mime and a ritualistic recital of the ingredients in a carton of Cool-Whip. After appearing as a regular on the 1969-1970 season of The Dean Martin Show (as well as its 1971 spin-off The Golddiggers), Brooks gained instant pop-culture fame for his brilliant short-subject directorial debut, The Famous Comedian's School, which was highlighted on a 1971 installment of The Great American Dream Machine. Even today, comedy buffs can cite from memory the particulars of "The Danny Thomas/Sid Melton School of Coffee-Spitting."
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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, comedian Albert Brooks gets summoned by politician/actor Fred Dalton Thompson to come to Washington DC to help in a new diplomatic effort. His job? Spend a month in India and Pakistan, write a 500 page report, and tell the US government what makes the over 300 million Muslims in the region laugh. While Brooks isn't sure he's the man for the job, the possibility of a Medal of Freedom proves irresistible and he accepts.
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