Rob Reiner profiles Albert Brooks, comedic legend, acclaimed filmmaker, talented character actor and a lifelong friend, | dG1fTDVwUmFXbkNseW8
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00:01 - Albert was a shining god of comedy.
00:03 - He was speaking directly to me.
00:06 - Always something just different.
00:08 - He was like a comedic tornado.
00:09 - Just fearless and funny.
00:11 - He's so fucking hot.
00:13 - It took this to finally hear a compliment.
00:15 (laughing)
00:16 Can't wait 'til I'm dead.
00:18 - So here's the thing,
00:19 we've been friends for like almost 60 years.
00:22 I've always looked up to you
00:23 and what you could do with comedy.
00:25 - I did a hundred variety shows.
00:29 - Albert Brooks.
00:30 - Albert Brooks.
00:31 - Albert Brooks.
00:32 - Albert Brooks.
00:34 - This, this isn't me.
00:37 - You're the only guy I know
00:40 who would go on national television with a routine
00:43 that you had never tried out.
00:45 - I went in the bathroom,
00:46 I would come up with something and I would go do it.
00:50 - Not only don't you have any money,
00:51 but your sister is dead.
00:53 That was funny.
00:57 - He was the first alternative comic.
01:00 - I think of him as the caviar of comedy.
01:02 - This guy's really special.
01:04 - You're Albert Brooks.
01:06 - Cut it.
01:07 - He's so good you can't steal it.
01:08 (laughing)
01:10 - If you stole it, you wouldn't know what to do with it.
01:13 - I mean, he's a beautiful actor.
01:16 - He has all that technique.
01:17 He can do anything.
01:18 - And I'm in love with you.
01:20 How do you like that?
01:22 I buried the lead.
01:25 ♪ Oh, ordinary ♪
01:27 - Stanley Kubrick called me and said,
01:29 this is the jealousy movie I've always wanted to make.
01:32 - You've heard of a no-win situation, haven't you?
01:34 Vietnam, this, I'm telling you, they're around.
01:37 I think we're in one of them.
01:38 - Everything he was talking about
01:39 is what television turned into.
01:42 - Film the gynecologist.
01:43 - What you didn't want to happen
01:46 watching an Albert Brooks movie,
01:47 you never wanted the scenes to ever end.
01:49 - Defending Your Life was one of the most insightful films
01:54 I'd ever seen.
01:55 - Hi, how'd you die?
01:56 - On stage, like you.
01:57 - To me, genius is you have the idea
02:01 and then the courage to execute it.
02:03 I would rather have Albert's career than my career.
02:07 - I mean, I'm listening to all this
02:08 and I'm getting a person who's been defending his life.
02:11 - Every goddamn minute.
02:13 - Yeah.
02:14 - My agent said,
02:15 I don't know why you always take the hard road.
02:18 You think I see two roads.
02:21 I see one road.
02:23 Because this,
02:24 this isn't me.
02:26 It's not the real me.
02:29 This
02:34 is the real me.
02:38 - He's the funniest man in the world.
02:40 (audience cheering)
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