Comedy

<p>A nation called out in its time of need. Albert Brooks answered. Yes, he would venture into India and Pakistan on a top assignment for the USA. Yes, he would see if comedy could achieve what diplomacy and power has not -- make the...

<p>Four coeds from snowbound Penmore U. know that the only place to be during Spring Break is Where the Boys Are. The rites (and wrongs) of the spring migration of thousands of college students to sunny Fort Lauderdale are celebrated in an era-defining film...

<p>Mel's Diner continues to function as a welcome waystation in the pursuit of dreams in Alice's fifth hit season. Ex-Mel gal Belle (Diane Ladd) continues to keep the service staff up to snuff in style and sass, while Alice continues to raise Tommy and...

<p>Christy (Anna Faris) is a single mom who, after years of questionable choices, is now sober and trying to get her life on track. She's tested daily by her mother, Bonnie (Allison Janney), whom Christy still considers the root of her troubles, even though...

<p>Director John Waters breaks every rule of good filmmaking and good taste with his 1972 landmark cult classic, Pink Flamingos. Starring Divine, Mink Stole and Edith Massey (an ensemble cast like you wouldn't believe), this underground epic sets a benchmark for the bizarre that...

<p>Things get rocky at the Gravel household when paranoid Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) and her murderous maid, Grizelda (Jean Hill), kill Peggy's husband. They escape from the law, only to wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta (Edith Massey) presides...

<p>Laughs erupt when Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall in love -- and fall in lava -- in Joe Versus the Volcano, a stylish comedy written and directed by Moonstruck Academy Award winner* John Patrick Shanley. This first teaming of the peerless stars of...

<p>Not since Judy met the boy next door in St. Louis has there been a heaping of tuneful, romantic Midwestern American life like this! Doris Day and Gordon MacRae team for spoonin', croonin' and swoonin' On Moonlight Bay, based on Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories....

<p>The stars come out when the night shimmers like this! Young lovers Doris Day and Gordon MacRae return in a moonlit sequel to On Moonlight Bay. Rosemary DeCamp, Mary Wickes and Billy Gray rejoin them in this remembrance of World War I-era Americana. There's...

<p>It's fast, funny, outrageously illegal and the granddaddy of the cross-country speed spectacles that have raced across movie screens in the past two generations. Put your pedal to the metal for The Gumball Rally. New York City is the starting point, and this supersonic...

<p>It's 1908. The West has changed. Grizzled frontiersman Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) hasn't. Despite the fortune he's made selling water to thirsty desert travelers, he lies in wait. Someday two no-account desert rats -- who long ago robbed Hogue and left him to die...

<p>"Bravo," say critics about an entertainer's tell-all memoir chronicling her days in the cabaret act Barry Nichols and Les Girls. "Libel!," cries another of Les Girls, setting in motion a talons-and-fact-baring litigation that proves Les Girls will be girls and that Cole Porter movie...

<p>The "getup" in New York's get-up-and-go comes from the switchboard operators of Susanswerphone. Need a wake-up call? Your appointments? Encouragement from "Mom"? A racetrack bet? It all comes from that dutiful nerve -- or noive -- center that keeps enterprises enterprising and, maybe, wedding...

<p>With lots of spiffy patter and a colorful array of underworld types, Brother Orchid spoofs the gangster genre as it serves its most hard-boiled crime icon sunny-side up. Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) plays racketeer Little John Sarto, who poses as Brother Orchid and...

<p>Betty Hutton (as Annie Oakley) and Howard Keel (as Frank Butler) star in this sharpshootin' funfest based on the 1,147-performance Broadway smash boasting Irving Berlin's beloved score, including "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly," "I Got the Sun in the Morning" and the anthemic "There's No...

<p>In the third season of The WB's top-rated comedy, Jamie King (Jamie Foxx) edges ever closer to his dreams of being an "overnight" Hollywood sensation, while simultaneously getting closer to his favorite King's Tower coworker, the gorgeous "Fancy" Monroe (Garcelle Beauvais). However, buttoned-down accountant...

<p>Talent agent Doug Blake (Jack Carson) is giving 100% to earn his 10%. He walks away from his arrogant singing star (Lee Bowman) and scrambles to discover another who will shine even brighter. He finds effervescent songstress Martha Gibson. Doris Day plays Martha. Think...

<p>Bon voyage! Georgia Garrett's singing career may not be going anywhere, but she is. She's on a cruise, sailing under the name Mrs. Elvira Kent while the real Elvira secretly stays home to spy on her presumably philandering hubby. Meanwhile, the husband hires a...

<p>No director. No leading lady. No problem. If no one will work with hambitious actor Jack Carson (played by good-natured Carson), he'll just pull his own movie together. Good buddy Dennis Morgan can be hoodwinked into costarring. And there's a talented kid in the...

<p>Breaking out of the feature film Osmosis Jones, Ozzy and Drix follows the adventures of white-blood-cell cop Ozzy (voice of Phil LaMarr) and over-the-counter cold-pill sidekick Drix (voice of Jeff Bennett) into a whole new world of grime-fighting: the body of 13-year-old Hector Cruz...

<p>William Baldwin (Sliver, Backdraft) is a street-smart male escort caught between Kelly Lynch (Charlie's Angels, Drugstore Cowboy) and Sherilyn Fenn (TV's Twin Peaks and Dawson's Creek) in enchantingly offbeat look at love in the '90s. Costarring Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix and TV's The Sopranos),...

<p>When a big-budget film crew takes over a small town, they shoot first and ask questions later. Director Walt Price (William H. Macy) has his work cut out for him with a girl-crazy leading man (Alec Baldwin), a camera-shy leading lady (Sarah Jessica Parker),...

<p>The Wayans Bros.' sophomore season sees Shawn (Shawn Wayans) laid off from his job and Pops (John Witherspoon) setting him up with his own newsstand next to Pops' Diner in the lobby of the Neidermeyer. While Shawn takes on his new career with maturity...

<p>From the creative team behind the irreverent, Emmy -winning comedy Childrens Hospital, Newsreaders continues to satirize the network television newsmagazine genre savagely, bringing viewers inspiring and thought-provoking stories that are neither of those things. New host Reagan Biscayne (Alan Tudyk, Powerless, Star Wars: Rogue...

<p>Will the corridors of power in our nation's capital ever be the same? Not after Sunny Davis (Goldie Hawn) arrives. The ditzy D.C. cocktail waitress goes from serving drinks to serving her country after saving an Arabian dignitary from an assassination attempt. What Sunny...

<p>Henry Tyroon likes what wealth can bring, but that isn't why he spends so much time pursuing it. "You do it for fun," he explains. "Money's just the way you keep score." James Garner scores big as Henry, a flimflammer who lands in New...

<p>High above the clouds in the branches of the highest trees, the adorable, monkey-like Monchhichis make their home. The peace-loving, highly developed, hirsute urchins would like nothing more than to swing their days away in their treetop utopia, but menace lurks nearby. Farther down...

<p>From the director of Happiness and Welcome to the Dollhouse comes the comedy that shines a light on the dark side of human behavior. Take a journey from innocence to experience, kindness to cruelty and love to hate with an emotionally needy college student...

<p>The Gold Diggers are headed for Paris, bringing their feathers, frills, New Yawk tawk -- and ballet shoes! A French diplomat has mistaken 43rd Street's Club Balle for the American Academy Ballet, and the chorus cuties aren't going to turn down a free trip...

<p>Broadway impresario Chuck Daly (Dick Powell) has suffered through a string of flops. But the kids at his alma mater don't know that. They're counting on Chuck to turn their varsity show hash into a smash! Powell leads an A+ cast of coed cuties...

<p>Fun's in fashion when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (plus Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott) enter the ultrachic Parisian world of high fashion in Roberta. The third Astaire/Rogers film is a silky adaptation of the 1933 Broadway hit (whose original cast included Bob Hope,...

<p>If you love music, check into Hollywood Hotel. The story's about a filmland newbie (Dick Powell) caught between a spoiled star (Lola Lane) and her likable look-alike (Lola's sister Rosemary Lane). But the movie's about Busby Berkeley's ace direction -- and music, music, music....

<p>Chalk up another success for psychiatrist Tony Flagg (Fred Astaire). Amanda Cooper (Ginger Rogers), his wedding-phobic patient, is now crazy to get married as long as the groom is Tony! With its antic comedy (Ginger, zombied out on psychotherapy and love, heaves a nightstick...

<p>Boasting a classic rock 'n' roll soundtrack and an irresistible young cast, Book of Love is a comic chapter in the life of hormone-stricken teen Jack Twiller. Whether throwing wild parties, imitating James Dean or "streaking" through the neighborhood, Jack will do whatever it...

<p>What do you call a cowboy with his brains kicked out? A bronc rider. Ben Jones and Howdy Lewis, heaven help them, are bronc riders. Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda portray the pair who are cowboy enough to do just about any job, except...

<p>In ancient times, the first Xiaolin Dragon battled the legendary witch Wuya. Good prevailed, and the Xiaolin sacred power objects, the Shen-Gong-Wu, were hidden throughout the earth. These mystical objects are the keys to controlling good and evil. Each object possesses unique supernatural powers...

<p>Meet Virgil Hawkins, a mild-mannered teen in the wrong place at the wrong time when a chemical explosion rocks the streets of Dakota City-- changing him from supergeek to super-hero. Based on the Milestone/DC Comics property, this animated series about the adventures of the...

<p>Felix Farmer's (Richard Mulligan) latest movie flops -- and lots of Hollywood types spring into action. Agents are called. Lawyers are retained. Statements are issued. It's what master comedy director Blake Edwards calls "Standard Operating Bull," the subject of his gleefully satiric S.O.B. Julie...

<p>In the second season of this upbeat comedy, sisters Holly (Amanda Bynes) and Valerie (Jennie Garth) have moved into a New York City loft and become well-acquainted with Holly's uncanny ability to unravel her straitlaced sibling's well-ordered life. Nevertheless, Valerie's own public relations firm,...

<p>From the creative team behind the irreverent, Emmy -winning comedy Childrens Hospital Rob Corddry, Jonathan Stern and David Wain, along with Jim Margolis (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) comes Newsreaders, a comedy series that satirizes the television newsmagazine genre. Based upon the "Newsreaders"...

<p>She plays the cello. He plays the field. She's coltishly young. He's worldly and mature. Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane knows she's not like millionaire American playboy Frank Flanagan. But if she pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as he is, maybe...

<p>Miriam Hopkins stars as Dorothy Hunter, orphaned by the Titanic and the wealthiest debutante in the world. So wealthy, in fact, that her whereabouts and appearance are a closely guarded secret. So secret that she uses her secretary Sylvia (Fay Wray) as a stand-in....

<p>Groucho Marx's last leading role sees him deploying all his patented patter and double-talk as a Navy lifer out to save a pal from his "inherited" racehorse. Navy seaman Benny Linn (Marx) is flabbergasted when his pal, Navy seaman Tim Dunnovan (William Bendix), squanders...

<p>Gregory La Cava directs Mary Astor in this wise and witty drawing-room war of the sexes, in which manners never falter while scandal simmers at the surface. Mrs. Nancy Gibson (Astor), on a return cruise to the States after a long absence, makes the...

<p>Wrestling manager Honest "Ham" Hamilton (Jack Oakie) is in hock up to his neck -- and his continental creditors are calling due. So Ham is counting on his star wrestler, Mike Scanlon (Gordon Jones), to take a dive, allowing Ham to settle his tab....

<p>It's an incredible Oscar-night soiree. The champagne is flowing; the flash of paparazzi cameras is blinding; and at the center of it all is Hollywood's hottest new sensation, Jamie King Then, an alarm clock sounds, and Jamie is awakened from his 1,566,132nd dream of...

<p>From director John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) comes a family who puts the dumb back in stupid! Meet Stanley, Joan, Buster and Petunia...The Stupids. The lovable but dimwitted Stupids have a problem, because they've just discovered that their trash is being stolen....

<p>From the world of Batman Beyond comes Zeta, an experimental infiltration robot designed to be a government agent. With an arsenal of weapons and technology, including a holographic self-projector allowing it to assume any identity, Zeta is the ultimate assassin. But when Zeta's programming...

<p>Wisecracking Lee Tracy (Bombshell, Blessed Event) and screen beauty Gloria Stuart (The Invisible Man, Titanic) costar in this rollicking RKO comedic mystery about a pair of top-notch U.S. mail postal inspectors hot on the trail of mail thieves. After a daring and deadly mail...

<p>Jailbird Nick Burton (Lee Tracy) has a secret -- while the warden may run the prison, he runs the men. Big or small, Nick can outscheme, outtalk (and how!) and outfight 'em all. So when an unexpected bumper crop of millionaires end up in...