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  1. www.nytimes.com › comedy-in-the-muslim-world'Comedy in the Muslim World' - The New York Times

    Jan 19, 2006 · January 19, 2006. A. O. Scott reviews "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World," written and directed by Albert Brooks.

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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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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    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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  5. 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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    Roger Ebert From Siskel And EbertAmerican film critic first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. *** Sub...

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  8. www.albertbrooks.com › movies › looking-for-comedyLooking For Comedy In The Muslim World - Albert Brooks

    About The Movie. The American senate, in order to improve it’s fast declining global image, asks comedian Albert Brooks to write a 500 page document about what makes Muslims laugh in India and Pakistan. Bidding adieu to his wife and young daughter,and accompanied by two government bureaucrats, Albert opens up an office in New Delhi, hires a ...