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  1. 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
  2. Looking for Comedy succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy. The movie has a perversely unifying effect: Muslims, Christians and Jews may not be able to agree ...

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    • Albert Brooks
    • PG-13
    • Albert Brooks
  3. Jan 20, 2006 · Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World Reviews - Metacritic. 2006. PG-13. Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) 1 h 38 m. Summary Albert Brooks provides an inspired and comedic view of America's approach to other cultures. (Warner Independent Pictures) Comedy. Directed By: Albert Brooks.

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    • Albert Brooks
    • PG-13
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  5. 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 ...

  6. Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics. Only Metacritic.com uses METASCORES, which let you know at a glance how each item was reviewed. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World critic reviews - Metacritic

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  8. With that out of the way, my wife and myself went on a date to the local movie theater this weekend and saw "Looking for Comedy in the Moslem World." This is really funny stuff, from concept through execution. But the humor won't grab you by the neck and shake you till you "get it." It won't hold up a cue card and tell you when to laugh.