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Jan 20, 2006 · Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 35 Critic Reviews. 53. User Score Available after 4 ratings. tbd. My Score. Hover and click to give a rating. Add My Review.
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- Albert Brooks
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[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 ...
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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- Comedy
- Albert Brooks
- 2006-01-20
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 ...
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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- Albert Brooks
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- Albert Brooks
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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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World is about an American stand up comic that gets a government assignment to find out what tickles the funny bone of Muslims. Brooks goes from audience to audience and tries American comedy on lethargic onlookers that don't seem to get it.
