After transitioning from stand-up comedy to filmmaking — including directing six shorts for the first season of a newly launched sketch show called “Saturday Night Live” — Albert Brooks made the jump ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

This is FRESH AIR. On Saturday, November 11, HBO premieres a new documentary directed by Rob Reiner. It's called "Albert Brooks: Defending My Life." And it's about a subject Reiner knows well. Our TV ...

"To me, genius is – you have the idea, and then the courage to execute it." The funniest man in the world? HBO has revealed the official trailer for the biopic documentary called Albert Brooks: ...