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The educational life of Albert Brooks began in California and he studied in the same school along with Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner. Albert Brooks attended classes in Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh. He was so deeply interested in his becoming a comedy artist that he was ultimately dropped out of the institute. Albert Brooks regularly starred in some of the best television talk shows like Tonight Show. Albert Brooks was a celebrity in the US because of his excellent skill in reforming all the ideas regarding comedy. He presented an altogether new persona upon the stage. What categorized his skills were his egotistical, nervous comic and narcissist interpretation of a character that he used to play. He released two greatly successful comedy albums with the names of Comedy Minus One and A Star is Bought.
This last mentioned album won a Grammy nomination in the year 1975. Then Albert Brooks tried his hand as a filmmaker. The name of his first film was The Famous Comedians School. Albert Brooks directed a feature film titled as Real Life. This, although being a highly ambitious work, was not that successful but it got its entry in PBS's An American Family. Lost in America has been his highly praised film which was released in the year 1985 and Albert Brooks along with Julie Hagerty played the roles of a couple who were interested in spending their life in a yuppie style. But there was a sad tone of poverty and the film features how their dreams were shattered.
Albert Brooks has also done many respectable works during the 2000s. He performed in the episodic The Simpsons lent his voice in Disney and Pixer's Finding Memo. Albert Brooks had to face some controversy regarding the title of the film Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World in the year 2005. In this movie it has been shown that the American Government in sending Albert Brooks to India and Pakistan to see what things are funny to the Muslim people. Albert Brooks married Kimberly Shlain who is an artist and they have two children; the family now lives in Los Angeles.
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