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With Penny Marshall, Victoria Burrows, Paul Jerome, Albert Brooks. To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
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- 2006-01-20
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World is a 2005 film starring and directed by Albert Brooks. [1] . It was shown at the Dubai International Film Festival. Synopsis. Albert Brooks, a Jewish-American comedian, is asked by the United States government to travel to India and Pakistan to find out "what makes Muslims laugh."
Bidding adieu to his wife and young daughter,and accompanied by two government bureaucrats, Albert opens up an office in New Delhi, hires a pretty Secretary, Maya, and goes around asking people at random as to what makes them laugh.
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The United States government sends comic Albert Brooks and two handlers from the State Department to India and Pakistan on a mission to discover what makes the 300 million Muslim residents of...
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In LOOKING FOR COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD, the State Department asks Albert Brooks to go to South Asia to find out what makes Muslims laugh. His trip is rife with the sorts of hijinks, awkward pauses, throwaways, and ba-dump-bump jokes that usually take up time in all of his movies. Show more.
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Jan 19, 2006 · When a Muslim woman asks him, “Are you a Jew?” he’s set up for a slam-dunk, but he walks away from it. He acts not like a comic wiseguy but like a clueless citizen sent on a baffling State Department mission.
