Comedy

<p>A veteran actor who's seen it all and a young, up-and-comer join for a season of reperatory theatre.</p>

<p>Gena Rowlands, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand and Julian Sands star in a story about the passion that comes with a love beyond reason. A story about life, about laughter, about being Crazy in Love. Georgie (Holly Hunter) is confused about life. She loves her...

<p>While the show remained firmly ensconced at the top of the rating charts, Alice's fourth season saw some big changes coming to the staff of Mel's. Polly Holiday's Flo proved an irresistible spin-off lure, and she departed for Flo's Yellow Rose partway through the...

<p>Flim-flamming carny barker Jimmy Bates (Lee Tracy) vows to turn a hooch dancer into a Broadway sensation. Since the hooch dancer is played by incendiary Lupe Velez, the screen's Mexican Spitfire, it's a good bet she's going to see her name in lights! To...

<p>Joe Gimlet, a Depression-era tobacconist, knows what he would do if he could start life over -- go for the dough and all the power and prestige it brings. Surprisingly, Joe gets his chance to Turn Back the Clock. As Joe, Lee Tracy (Blessed...

<p>Where others see a streetcar accident, Joe Stevens sees a payday. Where others want to help out, Joe's ready to cash in. He's an ambulance chaser, a bamboozling lawyer who pulls off financial fast ones, sometimes with the help of a tipsy MD who...

<p>Executive produced by three of the celebrated masterminds behind the groundbreaking Funny or Die website -- Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy -- this half-hour sketch-comedy series provides a creative forum for dozens of America's most talented comedians, actors and writers all contributing...

<p>This third volume of the complete Bowery Boys film collection carries within it some milestone moments for the series - along with more mirth and malaprops than you can swing a crumpled fedora at! First off, the Boys look back to their roots as...

<p>Coming together in a time of uncertainty and challenge, a new generation of American poets have something to say about their world. In 44 communities across the U.S., teenagers are competing for a spot on their regional poetry teams. This series will follow the...

<p>New York Globe Columnist Jimmy Russell (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) prowls his Broadway beat, digging up the racy gossip his readers devour with their morning toast and cup of joe. It's a glamorous life - until Jimmy's attempt to help his actress girlfriend (Francis Dee)...

<p>Manhattanites Bill and Connie Fuller are trying to make a go of life in their dilapidated, recently purchased country home. The place has a lot of history. George Washington slept there. Or was it Benedict Arnold? Before Tom Hanks and Shelley Long fell into...

<p>Forever one of comedy's reigning kings, the immortal Jack Benny trades in his royal scepter for a heavenly trumpet in this brilliant in this 1945 comedic fantasy about an innocent angel faced with the dubious task of destroying an all-to-indulgent Earth. Since persecution and...

<p>Taped live before a sold-out audience at the WaMu Theater at New York Citys Madison Square Garden, Ricky Gervais: Out of England The Stand-Up Special is a high-spirited hour of offbeat observations and understated humor from the actor/comedian/writer/director. The show includes Gervais unique takes...

"Sex Kitten, American Version" Mamie Van Doren joins forces with "Sex Kitten, Junior Grade" Tuesday Weld and "Sex Kitten, French Version" Mijanou Bardot (Brigitte's sister) for this screwball campus comedy that prefigures both grindhouse flicks and family-friendly college capers. When Collins College's digital super-computer,...

<p>Six-time Oscar-nominated romantic classic about a staid schoolmaster whose heart is thawed by a beautiful young woman. Robert Donat ("The 39 Steps") received an Oscar for his moving performance. Oscar-winner Greer Garson ("Mrs. Miniver," "Madame Curie") received an Oscar-nomination as the woman who steals...

From Harmony Korine, screenwriter of the critically acclaimed Kids, comes a haunting portrait of life in small-town America. Through a collection of dreamlike and devastating images, Korine offers a glimpse of Xenia, Ohio, a world existing in the aftermath of a tornado. Survivors of...

<p>The funeral business gets a giant raspberry in this wickedly wacky, resplendently ridiculous farce based on Evelyn Waugh's macabre comic masterpiece and directed with inspired verve by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones). But the American way of death isn't the film's only target: sex, greed,...

<p>The Bradfords bid adieu to the seventies by ushering in even more changes to the clan dynamic in Season Four. First up, minor league ball player Merle "the Pearl" Stockwell (Brian Patrick Clarke) sweeps Susan (Susan Richardson) off her feet. An engagement soon follows,...

<p>Executive-produced by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney (Ocean's 11, Ocean's 12), UNSCRIPTED is an innovative half-hour comedy series that fuses reality and fiction to chronicle the lives of three struggling young actors as they navigate the rough waters of show business. Starring Krista Allen,...

<p>You might think you know Bob Saget, but do you really? His decidedly adult brand of comedy, which deals with life as a single dad, his parents' sex life, dating, divorce, and any question you had about Full House will leave you looking at...

<p>Ginger Rogers requested and received the perfect man for the job when she was paired with James Stewart for this riotous romance between a sizzling nightclub singer and a buttoned-down botany professor. Sent into town to retrieve an errant sib (James Ellison), Prof. Peter...

<p>As originally announced by Gary Owens' stupendous stentorian tones: "Set free by the Teen Angels from his prehistoric block of glacier ice, comes the world's first superhero, Captain Caveman! Now the constant companion to the Teen Angels, Brenda, Dee Dee, and Taffy, in their...

<p>Legendary movie stars Marion Davies and Bing Crosby create true movie magic in this magnificent musical treat. Bored schoolteacher Sylvia Bruce (Davies) is disenchanted with life until she hears the incredible crooning of egomaniacal radio personality Bill Williams (Crosby). Hopelessly lovestruck, Sylvia has no...

<p>Stuart Palmer's immortal crime-solving school teacher Hildegarde Withers came to the screen courtesy of a series of mysteries from RKO Pictures. Memorably played by character great Edna May Oliver in three features, Hildegarde was ably paired with her flirty foil of Inspector Piper in...

<p>Live from the Beacon Theatre in New York, after seven years on TV and the big screen, Ellen DeGeneres is back on stage, live, outspoken, outrageous and out. Year: 2000 Starring: Ellen DeGeneres</p>

<p>American Splendor is the story of a little-known working-class everyman, and first-class curmudgeon, harvey Pekar. pekar finds love, fmaily and a creative voice through the underground comic books he creates, but still can't manage to find the quicker supermarket checkout line. ordinary life is...

<p>Following the landmark success of the acclaimed HBO series Russell Simmons Presents Brave New Voices, this all-new, one-hour HBO special presentation from executive producers Russell Simmons and Stan Lathan celebrates youthful excitement, creative expression, and inspired stage presentations. Brave New Voices 2010 captures the...

<p>Former child superstars Jackie Cooper and Jackie Coogan make the grade in this rollicking campus comedy from director Phil Karlson (The Silencers). Fresh out of the service, Johnny Kilroy (Cooper) plans to attend Benson College but is denied admission when it's discovered he's half...

<p>Her name is Vurrla, but she prefers Dandy. Or Jennifer. Or Susan. Or any of the identities she takes on during her spree of stealing cars, arranging new documentation for them, selling them - and then sometimes stealing the same car again. Her intent...

<p>A playwright's attempt at serious drama nearly brings the curtain down on his marriage in this "deliciously wistful comedy" (The Warner Bros. Story) starring James Stewart and Rosalind Russell. When Minnesota newsman Gaylord Esterbrook (Stewart) is summoned to New York to rewrite his first...

<p>Steve Arlo. Daryl Zero. They've got private investigation covered from A to Z. Solving a murder is easy. Living - being a functioning person away from the job - that's hard. With sly humor and a sleuth's eye for detail, writer/director Jake Kasdan makes...

<p>A Wall Street corporate raider attempts to acquire an 81-year-old New England wire and cable company but finds himself embroiled in the fight of his life against the company CEO, his assistant and an attractive N.Y. attorney, Penelope Ann Miller ("Carlito's Way"), who takes...

<p>Best friends Harry and Moe are go-getters inside a Newark mob outfit. They go get the boss's drycleaning. They go get his car. Now they have a new task: go get each other. The boss has secretly hired each pal to whack the other....

<p>Follow the misadventures of America's original teenage sensation. Andy Hardy, from his bumbling beginnings in A Family Affair through his girl-crazed coming-of-age to his bittersweet return to his beloved hometown of Carvel as a grown man in this concluding volume of the complete series...

<p>A little girl named Alpha (Margaret O'Brien) looks like a typical six-year-old. But to the professors at Pickering Institute of Child Psychology, she's an experiment: an orphan raised in isolation to be a genius. After breezy New York newsman Mike Regan (James Craig) interviews...

<p>Extra! Extra! Laugh all about it! Bette Davis and George Brent star in this comic battle of the sexes filled with good-natured rivalry and romance. Reporters Ellen Garfield (Davis) and Curt Devlin (Brent) are very much in love, but working at competing newspapers. Curt's...

<p>What's she got? Kings over queens? Four aces? Straight flush? Whatever the beautiful blonde holds, watch out! Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards headline this sly, sassy Old West caper about a Texas town's humdinger of a poker game. A "reformed" gambler and...

<p>Fasten your seat belts and hang on tight ... The Fat Boys have just fumbled their way into Palm Beach high society, and not since The Three Stooges crashed Hollywood has the screen seen such a comedic culture clash. This zany action-comedy ignites when...

<p>Oscar winner Susan Sarandon stars as tobacco billionairess Doris Duke in this touching and entertaining HBO Film, inspired by Duke's relationship with her gay butler, Bernard Lafferty (Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes), to whom she bequeathed her entire fortune.</p>

<p>As the hit comedy series continues in its third season, family dynamics hold court. In a two-part episode, Jason's ability to look at the bright side turns a family vacation in Maui a vacation that would be called a disaster by anyone else's standards...

<p>Superstar comedian/writer Bill Maher, one of the most highly credited comic minds today, is back in an all-new solo HBO comedy special performed live. Maher, known for his sharp wit, offers his candid and hilarious opinions on a wide range of social and political...

<p>From Politically Incorrect to Real Time with Bill Maher, comedian and social commentator Bill Maher has been stirring the political pot for the past decade, creating some of the most interesting dialogue between conservatives and liberals alike. In Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home,...

<p>A comic force, multi-Emmy nominee Bill Maher (Real Time with Bill Politically Incorrect ) is in his true element stand-up comedy in this freewheeling, no-holds-barred performance before a packed house in Raleigh, North Carolina. In this live show, Bill fearlessly and hilariously lets loose...

<p>Collected from one of the most popular segments of the acclaimed HBO Original Series Real Time with Bill Maher, New Rules takes steady aim at well, just about everything in sight, bringing in the hosts incisive wit and hilarious asides. Bill Maher: New Rules...

<p>It's Brooklyn, 1965 and young Michael Dunn (Andrew McCarthy) finds himself forced to attend St. Basil's in pursuit of the priesthood. Once there, against his better judgment, he gets caught up with a wild crowd led by the raucous Rooney (Kevin Dillon), and together...

<p>The reformer is Andrew Rockton Hale (Dick Powell), running for mayor on a good-government platform. The redhead is Kathleen Maguire (June Allyson), a zoo superintendent's daughter who keeps a full-grown lion as a house cat. When a corrupt party boss unjustly bounces Maguire's father...

<p>Who will be the next Mrs. Corbett? Will it be the chic designer? The Miss Montana Pageant hopeful? The headstrong lady across the hall? It's a big decision for any boy to make for his recently widowed dad! Like father, like son. You'll like'em...

<p>Eight is Enough's third season started off with a change -- a brand new theme song, sung by star Grant Goodeve! The title theme's promise of "a portrait of the happiness that we feel and always will" was more than matched by the show's...

<p>From the novels that thrilled millions came a popular 12-film series that swept viewers into the heroic exploits of Bomba, the boy growing up in the wilds. Johnny Sheffield ("Boy" in Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzans) stars, rescuing lost travelers, fighting fierce beasts and vanquishing deadly...

<p>Somewhere between the pre-hysterical Stone Age of The Flintstones and the fantastic future of The Jetsons lie The Roman Holidays. This time around Hanna-Barbera tackles family life circa 63 AD. Augustus "Gus" Holiday (Dave Willock) is the man of the clan, lovely and level-headed...