Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006)
Directed by Albert Brooks
To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
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As well as the principal actors, this is a movie rich in bench strength: Anthony Edwards as Toschi's more sensitive partner; Brian Cox as the celebrity lawyer Melvin Belli; Chloë Sevigny as Graysmith's frightened wife; and Elias Koteas, Dermot Mulroney and Donal Logue as county cops; Philip Baker Hall as a dipsomaniac handwriting expert; and, notably, John Carroll Lynch, a portly, bald comic actor (seen in Albert Brooks's Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World) cast here as the prime suspect.
This is the ungiving, benign neo-colonialism that Albert Brooks mocked (and was inescapably a part of) in Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World .