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Albert Brooks: Comedy
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Albert Brooks was a poet of neurosis, one of the most unique and acclaimed comedic voices of the late 20th century. Although his career as a stand-up proved short-lived and secondary in light of his success as a filmmaker, his slim recorded output remains groundbreaking, and expanded the boundaries of the comedy album format in new and unexpected ways.
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Albert Brooks gets treated like a living comedy legend by nearly everyone in the world, deservedly so, except by studio executives looking at the bottom line. Brooks is releasing his seventh feature as director, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, through Warner Independent Pictures after Sony dropped it because of their fear.
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Synopsis: Comic and filmmaker Albert Brooks serves his country while struggling to get some laughs in this offbeat satiric comedy. Brooks plays himself, a comedic filmmaker whose most recent success was providing the voice of a fish for an animated feature and who has just been passed by as director for aRead More
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Your parents know and love Albert for being a loveable schlemiel in many movies. But you know and love him because he was the dad-fish in Finding Nemo. And if you think finding one fish in a whole ocean is a fun search, his new movie is called Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.
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ALBERT BROOKS is among the most inventive practitioners of motion picture comedy, as well as one of its most incisive commentators on contemporary life. Brooks began his career as a stand-up comic, and went on to become an award-winning actor, writer and filmmaker.
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