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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.

Comedian actor and filmmaker Albert Brooks

is the subject of a new HBO documentary directed by his longtime friend Rob Reiner.

It's titled Albert Brooks Defending My Life. Today we're going to listen to our interview with Brooks who are critic at large John Powers, once called

The Funiest Man in America and our leading satirist of middle-class self-indulgence.

Brooks has written, directed, and starred in the films Real Life, Modern Romance, Lost in America,

and defending your life.

He started his career as a stand-up comic, and in addition to making his own films films he co-starred as an insecure

journalist in broadcast news and as a campaign worker in taxi driver. More

recently he appeared in HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Playing himself in the episode, he decides that after going to so many funerals

where wonderful things are said about the deceased,

he wants to have his own funeral before he dies.

Here he is stopping by his friend Larry David's house.

Larry is there with his sidekick Leon.

Listen, I just stopped by to pick up a photo of you, me and Marty Short taken at Lincoln Center that I want for the memorial.

Can I borrow it?

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