or over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers. The world’s largest collection of its kind – over 10,000  items – is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.In this excerpt from our archives from 1994 – a busy year for him, starring in James L. Brooks‘s I’ll Do Anything and Michael Ritchie’s The Scout – Albert Brooks tell us what it takes to be a stand-up comic.