Playboy Interview: Albert Brooks

Playboy Interview: Albert BrooksAlbert Brooks, it has been said, is the funniest white man in America. Actually, someone said that right here, in this magazine, 16 years ago--back when Richard Pryor was working more. Two years ago, Entertainment Weekly called Albert Brooks the fifth funniest living person--after Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld, Roseanne and Jim Carrey, all of whom are white and would certainly have voted Albert Brooks ahead of them. Comedians, in fact, revere him in outsize fashi...