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  1. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › lookingThis comedian walks into a mosque… movie review (2006 ...

    Jan 19, 2006 · That’s the premise for a movie that might inspire a sequel titled, “Searching for Comedy in the Albert Brooks World.”. I mean that as a compliment. Brooks’ movie has a lot of humor in it, but it’s buried, oblique, throwaway, inside, apologetic, coded and underplayed. Midway through the movie, he does a free stand-up comedy show in New ...

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Looking_for_Comedy_in_theLooking for Comedy in the Muslim World - Wikipedia

    [2] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100 based on 35 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews." [3] In a positive review, Nathan Rabin wrote in The A.V. Club, "Looking succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy. It's equally concerned with getting laughs and exploring how ...

  4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0433116Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005) - IMDb

    Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World: Directed by Albert Brooks. 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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  5. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › looking_for_comedy_inLooking for Comedy in the Muslim World - Rotten Tomatoes

    Nathan Rabin AV Club Looking for Comedy succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy. Rated: A-Nov 27, 2006 Full Review Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com The movie has a ...

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    Apr 10, 2019 · Take My Wives, Please. In Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, Albert Brooks makes his alter ego (“Albert Brooks”) the butt of every joke, which generates big laughs and progressively ...

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  7. www.commonsensemedia.org › movie-reviews › lookingLooking for Comedy in the Muslim World - Common Sense Media

    Parents say: Not yet rated. Kids say: Not yet rated. Despite its title, the quirky Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, like all Albert Brooks movies, is about his world. While the comedian journeys to India and briefly across the border to Pakistan in search of "comedy," the film's primary punch line has to do with the Brooks character ...

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