Comedy

<p>You'd think chilled borscht pulses in her veins. She's Ninotchka Yoshenka, a lovely yet severe Soviet envoy sent to Paris to rescue wayward comrades from the perils of champagne and capitalism. But there may be a thaw in Ninotchka's Cold War. She meets Steve...

<p>Family Matters' blockbuster seventh season starts off with a bang as Urkel's transformation chamber runs amok and creates the incredible shrinking Carl (Reginald VelJohnson) and Urkel (Jaleel White). You'd think things might get easier after surviving giant fruit and monstrous house cats but then...

<p>Prohibition's over and bombastic bootlegger Remy Marko is heading for the straight-and-narrow, the up-and-up, the strictly legit. But in the new booze-friendly legit world, the beer baron's brew is a big bust -- and all his troubles with creditors, coppers, a fugitive mobster carrying...

<p>Perhaps world's only animated sketch comedy educational series, Histeria delivers lessons that stick -- to your funny bone. Hosted by Father Time (voice of Frank Welker), the cartoon cast careens through time to deliver historical facts from Siberia to Sumeria, despite the efforts of...

<p>This musical comedy is based upon the play Brother Rat and follows the exploits of young cadets trying to make it through Southern Military Institute and keep one-step-ahead of a stern old professor. One of the fellows must also keep his newly pregnant wife...

<p>They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Hail to the comedy chiefs! Jack Lemmon and James Garner win a landslide of laughs as two on-the-lam former presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the current president...

<p>"Beverly Hills. The most beautiful women in the world. Plastic surgery. What do these three things have in common?" Dr. Ben Stone (Michael J. Fox) asks. "Me, in less than a week!" It turns out to be an eye-opening week. And Doc Hollywood turns...

<p>After surviving a flood as an infant, the buoyant Molly Brown sets out to find her way in life. She assures a saloon owner she can sing and play piano and before long becomes the bride of up-and-comer Johnny Brown. After throwing a disastrous...

<p>The Sarah Rose Princess America Pageant is a beauty contest to die for! And that's exactly what the contestants in Mount Rose, Minnesota are doing. Ever since the vivacious but vicious former beauty queen, Gladys Leeman (Kirstie Alley, TV's Cheers), has been pushing her...

<p>A man impersonating a woman on stage? Piece of cake. But a woman whose livelihood depends on pretending to be a man who pretends to be a woman? Now you've got problems! You've also got laughs when Julie Andrews plays Victor and Victoria in...

<p>From Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, former Executive Producers and Head Writers of The Simpsons. It's just around the corner and close to home - a funky, colorful neighborhood where a college degree can bring you an exciting career in retail sales. Welcome to...

<p>Deanna Durbin lifts her voice in laughter and song in this lighthearted musical comedy costarring Kay Francis and Walter Pidgeon. When Broadway star Georgia Drake (Francis) heads for Honolulu to prepare for her latest show, her daughter Pam (Durbin) wins the lead in the...

<p>Patter master Lee Tracy (Dinner at Eight) commands the spiel in this collection, culled from his post-Code career, that sees him playing a slippery shyster (o' course), a newshound (natch), a screen hack (ditto) and a circus promoter (he's got the gift of gab)....

<p>Three kindly old men, indistinguishable from the half-forgotten ranks of senior citizens you might pass on any city park bench in warm weather, decide to light up the dimming twilight of their lives with a last blaze of glory -- by sticking up a...

<p>Hoops McCann has the name but not the talent to carry on the family basketball tradition. He'd rather use his drawing skills to earn an art school scholarship by writing and illustrating a love story. This summer in Nantucket he's going to get the...

<p>Legendary George Burns is back -- twice over -- in both title roles in a comedy match up that really cooks! He plays devil-turned-agent Harry Tophet, who's transformed struggling musician Billy Shelton (Ted Wass) into a superstar rock idol. Naturally, their contract involves possession...

<p>Ginger Rogers and Ann Miller tap in time and rat-a-tat lines. Lucille Ball braves a date with an obnoxious lumber baron. Eve Arden can't recall Hamlet but one meets so many people in the big city. And Katharine Hepburn becomes Broadway's biggest star in...

<p>King Kaiser's Comedy Cavalcade goes on in minutes. But guest star Alan Swann is exiting the building. Fast. "I'm not an actor. I'm a movie star!" he bellows in stark fear. He just found out the show is LIVE! Directed by Richard Benjamin and...

<p>Paula (Goldie Hawn) and Richard (Burt Reynolds) are a happy, successful Hollywood screenwriting team. They know and love each other, and live together. So why, already, did they get married and spoil it all? Best Friends is a comic marriage uniting screen favorites Hawn...

<p>Chicago. Another town, another scam for vagabond Bill Dancer (James Belushi) and the curly-topped orphan (Alisan Porter) he's raised since infancy. This time, Bill hits the jackpot: His newest con whisks them both from the poorhouse to the penthouse with lots of laughs along...

<p>"The end is near" for the unconventional, lovable staff of the Billy Barnes Extended Care Unit as HBO presents the third and final season of this offbeat comedy series. Set eight months after the Season 2 cliffhanger, this season finds Dr. Jenna James (Laurie...

<p>Both Marion Davies and Billie Dove were one-time Ziegfeld chorus girls, so they became a natural fit as pals and romantic rivals when Davies' chum, two-time Academy Award winner* Frances Marion (with input on dialogue from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes author Anita Loos), fashioned Davies'...

<p>Tally ho! The farcical flair of Robert Montgomery meets its match in the lampooning style of British humorist P.G. Wodehouse in Piccadilly Jim, a blithe and expertly cast concoction from Hollywood's golden age of screwball comedy. Montgomery plays a London-based cartoonist whose caricatures spoil...

<p>Robert Taylor wins track meets, friends and Maureen O'Sullivan in this smashing British collegiate comedy costarring Vivien Leigh. Arriving in England to attend Oxford's Cardinal College, cocky American athlete Lee Sheridan (Taylor) soon learns his boasts have earned him more enemies than mates. Dating...

<p>A New York City police detective finds himself in deep trouble when a beautiful Italian woman from his past tricks him into taking part in a jewel robbery.</p>

<p>CHARMING HONG KONG ROMANTIC FARCE IN THE TRADITION OF VICTOR/VICTORIA Pop music super fan Lam Chi Wing disguises herself as a man so she can meet her idol, Rose, at an audition for male singers being staged by Rose's producer/boyfriend, Sam. The couple's relationship...

<p>In these three anthology films, RKO Pictures plumbed their library of musical and comedy shorts to cull together a series of celluloid variety shows that are toe-tapping and rib-tickling. Comedian Gil Lamb hosts Make Mine Laughs and delivers up musical and comedic delights from...

<p>Questions of identity and destiny rise to the surface in the sixth season of this fan-favorite family sit-com. As the antics of Steve Urkel threaten to steal the show in a fit of nerdtastic slapstick, the Winslow clan shows it has more than enough...

<p>Have an ice day! It's a parched future, and water, the galaxy's only valuable commodity, is controlled by the evil Templars. Their only foes: a handful of daring Ice Pirates. Spoofy-goofy comedy, otherworldly special effects, spectacular space creatures, bedraggled 'bots and bicep-rippling swashbuckling highlight...

<p>The melodies of You've Got That Thing and You Do Something to Me lace the soundtrack, but Hollywood did something to the screen version of the Cole Porter musical Fifty Million Frenchmen: It dropped the songs! At the time, moviegoers frowned on song-and-dance vehicles,...

<p>Winnie Lightner strikes it rich in a gold mine of gags in this racy pre-Code comedy costarring the team of Olsen and Johnson. A brassy gold digger who loves 'em and leaves 'em, Gertie Dale (Lightner) drops by the office of ex-husbands Elmer (Chic...

<p>The Our Gang comedies accounted for more films than any other series, totaling 221 between 1922 and 1944. But just one of those outings provided big roles for America's favorite little pals: General Spanky, the gang's only feature film. Hoping to match the success...

<p>The Seavers say sayonara in their seventh and final season in high style by welcoming a new member to the clan -- played by Leonardo DiCaprio! As Mike (Kirk Cameron) prepares to attend teacher's college, Jason (Alan Thicke) suggests that he teach some remedial...

<p>Rascally pedicab driver Lo Tung yearns for the lovely Ping, but she is also desired by a dangerous gang boss who is not above murder to get what he wants. When two of his friends are killed by the gangster's men, Lo must use...

<p>The heartwarming hit series Family Matters continues with more great episodes in its fifth season, proving this middle-class family comedy appeals to viewers of all classes. This season features the episode "Aunt Oona," in which singing sensation Donna Summer proves her comedic chops portraying...

<p>Ida Lupino could make a meal out of fiery dramas (They Drive by Night, High Sierra) and handily deliver a song (Thank Your Lucky Stars), and would later direct acclaimed thrillers in the 1950s. But only once did the multitalented marvel tackle romantic comedy,...

<p>Deep in the mighty big heart of Two Guys from Texas is a 15-gallon Technicolor hatful of Western spoofery and song, starring ace cowpokes -- and song-and-dance men -- Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson. Stranded by car trouble on a dude ranch, struggling entertainers...

<p>Real-life buddies and Warner Bros. colleagues Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson appeared in 11 films together -- dramas and musicals alike -- and scored their own starring vehicle as Two Guys from Milwaukee, a "Crown Prince and the Cabby" comedy where runaway royalty befriends...

<p>Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson lead the charge in a battle between operatic highbrows and showbiz sharpies in the fun-loving "let's put on a show" Warner Bros. tradition. Their team spirit infuses this Technicolor treat, in which nightclub operators run afoul of their stuffy...

<p>Anna Faris and Emmy winner Allison Janney star in this pulls-no-punches comedy from Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Mike and Molly). Faris plays Christy, a single mom valiantly trying to overcome a lifetime of questionable choices. Now a...

<p>Heave-to for homicide. While in port, the USS Carolina is chosen for an urgent test of a new electronic firing system due to its shipshape efficiency record. That reputation will be stained -- in blood -- by a saboteur out to scuttle the trial,...

<p>In the sixth and final season of George Lopez, George (George Lopez) sees his daughter off to college, only to discover that his family may have a new member on the way. While Angie (Constance Marie) investigates her condition, George's job is in jeopardy,...

<p>Marge and Gower Champion dance up a storm in their first starring roles in this dazzling marital musical comedy costarring Dennis O'Keefe. On the eve of their smash Broadway debut, hoofers Pamela and Chuck Hubbard (Marge and Gower Champion) find out they're expecting a...

<p>John Barrymore delivers the vote and a terrific performance in this whimsical gem, directed by Garson Kanin (Bachelor Mother). A widower with two small children (Peter Holden and Virginia Weidler), former scholar Gregory Vance (Barrymore) has given up his books for booze. Fired from...

<p>Myrna Loy is merely the bridesmaid while Rosalind Russell assumes the bridal honors to partner with Myrna's former flame Walter Pidgeon on this occasion. But perennial screen wife Myrna is not one to take also-ran status without many a brittle barb -- or a...

<p>Living with Lincoln chronicles how five generations of one American family have shared the "glorious burden" of collecting, preserving and documenting a treasure trove of photographs, rare books and artifacts relating to Abraham Lincoln. In the years following the Civil War, Peter Kunhardt's ancestors...

<p>Moving out does not necessarily mean moving on, as Jason (Alan Thicke) and Maggie (Joanna Kerns) discover when Mike (Kirk Cameron) and Carol (Tracey Gold) move to the Big Apple together -- to be roommates! As that arrangement goes about as swimmingly as the...

<p>Alec Guinness and Gina Lollobrigida lead an international cast in this sparkling Gallic comedy, originally written by French dramatist Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres. The lavish setting is the gilded fin de siecle era known as La Belle Epoque. Guinness plays Benedict Boniface, a...

<p>George Lucas executive produces the animated delight Twice Upon a Time from directors John Korty and Charles Swenson. In its once-upon-a-time world, our heroes are Ralph, the all-purpose animal, and his constant companion, Mumford, who only talks in sound effects. Their mission is nothing...

<p>The saucer eyes, dithering voice and jittery mannerisms are unmistakable -- and grew on audiences over a beloved 63-year showbiz career. Only the great Ed Wynn could bumble his way into becoming the hero of the Bowery with nimbly nitwitted, sunnily slapstick style as...