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He is described as the best guest star in the show's history by IGN, particularly for his role as supervillain Hank Scorpio in the episode "You Only Move Twice".Brooks also acted in other writers' and directors' films during the 1980s and 1990s. In 2007, he continued his long-term collaboration with The Simpsons by voicing Russ Cargill, the central antagonist of The Simpsons Movie.He has played Lenny Botwin, Nancy Botwin's estranged father-in-law, on Showtime's television series Weeds.

A very typical line: "Wouldn't it be great if neediness and desperation were a turn-on?"

Having dealt extensively with the plight of the upper middle-class and the insincere on earth, Brooks began the 1990's wondering if there was any cosmic relief in heaven. The movie foreshadowed what reality television would become thirty five years later.  After Real Life, Brooks wrote, directed and starred in the now classic movies Modern Romance, Lost in America, Defending Your Life, Mother, The Muse, and Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.

As an actor, Brooks has appeared in over thirty films beginning with Martin Scorsese’s legendary Taxi Driver.

The only criticism that bothered him was when he was accused of whining.

"Please don't say whine," he told an interviewer, "Nobody could associate "whine" with anything but a kid you want to throw out of the car. 1999's The Muse featured Brooks as a Hollywood screenwriter who has "lost his edge", using the services of an authentic muse (Sharon Stone) for inspiration.

Albert Brooks' unpleasant and depressing story of a man and his wife dropping out of the rat race and hitting the road with a $200,000 "nest egg" and a Winnebago is a one-sour joke comedy, but so claustrophobic and unrelenting it is probably the best of that genre. Hell Is For Hyphenates. Another time he performed mime (while telling the audience every move he was making).

The film, in which Brooks (playing a version of himself) films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary. Having some troubles in the after-life of "Judgement City," he had to wonder if he was "the dunce of the universe" for the way he handled things back on Earth.

Brooks received the same mixed criticism from those who were on his wavelength and those unamused.

Instead, he chose to satirize the artificiality of traditional stand-up and find ways for he and the audience to subtly think their way through the routines. His performance received much critical praise and positive reviews, with several critics proclaiming Brooks' performance as one of the film's best aspects. Another routine was little besides Albert fretting over "running out of material." While the audience squirmed with silent embarrassment, Brooks dropped his pants, pelted himself with a pie, and broke eggs over his head.

He later studied drama at Carnegie Tech.

Gradually they began to laugh at his comic desperation.

Brooks performed the kind of smiling, deliberately artificial "non comedy" that, in a more high-powered vaudeville mode, would win fame for "wild and crazy" Steve Martin.

For mild and Yuppie Albert Brooks, these experiments gained him the reputation as a clever "comedian's comedian" and little beyond a cult following.

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