Albert Brooks

You get three guesses to name the characters' profession. The first two don't count.

Including Defending Your Life, Modern Romance, and Lost in America. 

Great news for Albert Brooks fans, because starting tomorrow, Netflix will make all of the classic films he wrote and directed available for subscribers: Real Life (1979), Modern Romance (1981), Lost in America (1985), Defending Your Life [...]

Welcome to our column Sketch Anatomy, where we ask some of our favorite comedy writers to choose any sketch — one they personally wrote or one from history they find particularly hilarious, notable, or underappreciated — to learn from a [...]

They'll co-write and co-star in the show.

Louis C.K. has a new FX project in the works, and he's teamed up with Albert Brooks to make it happen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, C.K. and Brooks are co-creating, writing, and starring in an untitled hourlong animated pilot for the [...]

The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 150,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, [...]

Disney today officially announced that a Finding Nemo sequel called Finding Dory, centered on Ellen DeGeneres's character Dory, will hit theaters on November 25th, 2015. DeGeneres, who is returning for the sequel along with Albert Brooks and [...]

Living comedy legend Albert Brooks has agreed to reprise his role as the voice of a talking fish called Marlin in the upcoming sequel to Pixar's Finding Nemo. Deadline reports that Brooks signed "a fat deal" to return. Ellen DeGeneres and [...]

Sad news for the many Albert Brooks impressionists.

We look at seven early short films from Albert Brooks, which he produced for television in the early seventies.

Columentary (title sadly not pending) is a weekly feature, in which I’ll listen to the commentary track of a sitcom, and divulge, through pretty pictures and less pretty words, the behind-the-scenes secrets the creators, writers, and cast [...]

Sofia Vergara making her Modern Family character look restrained, Nicole Kidman giving the stinkeye, and many many more glimpses of the audience.

And a few of his worsts, as well.

"I actually found out about it on Twitter."

George Clooney, Albert Brooks, Gary Oldman, Christopher Plummer, Christoph Waltz, and Nick Nolte walk into a room ...

Including 'Boogie Nights' and 'Pretty Woman.'

Here's the trailer for Drive, a new thriller starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman and....Albert Brooks? As some sort of scary crime boss? OK. The movie looks fine I guess, but really, is it [...]

Amongst comedians and comedy fans, Albert Brooks is one of the most respected men in the industry and has been for over thirty years. He began his career performing on variety and talk shows, most notably The Tonight Show Starring Johnny [...]

"They're frightening. If you tweet something day or night, they respond in one second."