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After Leonard Nimoy’s 1987 comedy Three Men and a Baby was released on VHS (yes, Spock from Star Trek directed that movie), rumors began to...
One thing Richard Pryor could never be accused of was keeping his act clean. During his heyday, the irreverent comic was highly rewarded for his blue...
Theoretically, if you were planning on launching your own sitcom, you’d probably go out of your way to make it as funny as possible, right? After...
In 1995, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno started beating David Letterman’s Late Show in the weekly ratings after nearly two years of head-to-head...
In the late 1970s, Knocked Up director Judd Apatow, then about 12 years old, went to visit his grandmother in California. As he’d done during...
It might be a strange thing to think about, but even the most horrible people we’ve shared the planet with have enjoyed the same entertainment as...
During a Reddit AMA from 2013, Jerry Seinfeld revealed that one of his favorite Seinfeld episodes to film was Season 8’s “The Pothole,” mainly...
1998’s The Parent Trap tells the story of twin sisters Annie and Hallie (as played by Lindsay Lohan), who were separated at birth. When the girls...
With nearly 60 years under his belt as an actor, Al Pacino has appeared in many beloved and critically acclaimed films. The 2011 Adam Sandler comedy...
There isn’t a live performer on this planet who hasn’t had problems with people in the audience at some point, and that’s especially true of...
The events of September 11, 2001, affected a number of movies and shows in development at the time. That included everything from Spider-Man to George...
The 1979 black comedy Wise Blood stars Brad Dourif—best known for providing the voice of Chucky in Child’s Play—as Hazel Motes, a war veteran...
The Little Rascals began as a series of short films produced by Hal Roach Studios under the Our Gang banner. Between 1922 and 1944, 220 Our Gang...
In May 1988, a woman was arrested outside the Lincoln Tunnel in New Jersey for driving a stolen Porsche. Unable to pay the $3 toll, she explained to...
The phenomenon of comedians “owning” hecklers is a relatively new one. Like, we never got to hear Milton Berle cursing out an audience member for...
On October 8, 1993, more than 3,000 people packed into the New York Hilton hotel for the Friars Club roast of Whoopi Goldberg. The roastmaster for the...
If a movie does well at the box office, it’s only a matter of time before somebody tries to milk it for what it’s worth. On the comedy side of...
On January 31, 2007, the Boston Police Department responded to multiple complaints about devices resembling bombs being found throughout the city. All...
When South Park parodied Christopher Nolan’s Inception in the 2010 episode “Insheeption,” viewers were quick to point out that Trey Parker and...
In 2009, an anonymous user posted a curious question on the now-defunct Yahoo! Answers website: “Does anyone remember a movie from the ‘90s in...
No two audiences respond to a movie the same way. Apply that logic to countries around the world and, more specifically, the people in those countries...
On December 19, 1973, in an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Carson told a joke in his monologue about there being a toilet paper...
It might be hard to believe, but Michael Richards wasn’t the first choice to play the role of Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld. Richards was fairly...
Back in 2000, prop house CEO Gregg Bilson Jr. of Independent Studio Services received his largest order to date: a reported $1 trillion. The phony...
Movie titles get changed in foreign markets for all kinds of reasons. Usually, this has something to do with literal translations of the original...
On April 15, 1984, Welsh comedian Tommy Cooper took the stage at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London to perform his world-famous magic act on the TV...
People love seeing their favorite artists collaborate with one another, and the powers that be are well aware of it. If two people have been doing...
On October 30, 1981, the adventure comedy Roar had its world premiere in Sydney, Australia. Starring talent agent Noel Marshall in his only movie...
Prior to co-starring in the Expendables films, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were locked in a bitter rivalry that lasted nearly two...
On September 9 and 10, 2001, George Carlin appeared at the MGM Grand Las Vegas, where he performed material intended for his upcoming 12th HBO...
Based on the 2001 British comedy series of the same name, the American version of The Office, which debuted in 2005, was developed by King of the Hill...
You wouldn’t be able to tell from the constant rants that Howard Stern has gone on over the years, trashing Jay Leno, but the two of them were...
In March 2016, North Carolina resident James Meyers Jr. was pulled over while driving his daughter to school. The reason for the stop was a broken...
Three’s Company made its television debut on ABC in the spring of 1977. The hit sitcom centered around Jack Tripper (played by John Ritter), who...
Eddie Murphy’s work falls under many different categories, but horror, for the most part, isn’t one of them. And that isn’t to say he didn’t...
There’s no denying that The Simpsons has had a huge impact on things since it first graced our TV screens back in 1989. A great many would even have...
Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner first met when Crystal guest-starred on the classic CBS sitcom All in the Family in January 1976. The episode “New...
You’d be hard-pressed to find a stand-up comedian who enjoys being heckled. Most of them will tell you that there’s nothing worse than having your...
Bill Cosby is no stranger to criticizing other comedians, but in the 1970s, he allegedly found himself on the receiving end of a little criticism of...
During its 50 years on TV, Saturday Night Live has introduced the world to countless memorable characters. A select few even had their sketches spun...
This past Wednesday (April 15), the title for the long-awaited sequel to Spaceballs was revealed at CinemaCon. During the Amazon MGM Studios...
When you’ve been traveling around Southeast Asia long enough, temples start to blur together. I needed something different. So when I stumbled...
Throughout its nine seasons on the air, The King of Queens featured a variety of guest performers. Some of them, like Bryan Cranston and Jane Lynch,...
A person’s career path isn’t necessarily dictated by the jobs they work early on in life. For example, it might surprise you to learn that a...
After South Park debuted on television in August 1997, it quickly earned high-profile fans. However, only a select few have ended up making guest...
The Comedy Central celebrity roasts have featured their fair share of offensive jokes over the years, but perhaps none were more legendary than the...
In 2005, Dave Chappelle famously walked away from his successful Comedy Central series Chappelle’s Show after only two seasons. A third season had...
A study published in the International Journal of Cardiology back in 2016 focused on the morbid topic of comedians dying young. The goal was to...
2001’s Scary Movie 2 famously opens with James Woods playing a priest in a parody of The Exorcist, which had just been re-released in theaters a...
Ashton Kutcher’s hidden camera prank show Punk’d originally ran on MTV from 2003 to 2007. During that time, Kutcher and his crew pulled elaborate...