Fresh
Looking for Comedy succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
2006 · 1h 38m · PG-13
Comedy
Directed by
Albert Brooks
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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Albert Brooks Director
- Albert Brooks as Albert Brooks
- Amy Ryan as Emily Brooks
- Sheetal Sheth as Maya
- Fred Thompson as Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson
- Penny Marshall as Penny Marshall
- Victoria Burrows as Casting Director
- John Carroll Lynch as Stewart
- Jon Tenney as Mark
- Paul Eric Jerome as Studio Executive
- Emma Lockhart as Laura
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
42%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The movie has a perversely unifying effect: Muslims, Christians and Jews may not be able to agree on exactly who the heck Jesus is, but they're fully capable of bonding in boredom.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Rotten
I think this thing is just flat and dead.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
A comedian should never attempt to be a diplomat.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
I like all of Brooks's features, which are brilliantly conceptualized and deftly executed. This one's no exception, and some of the laughs are genuinely cathartic.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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