Comedy - Movies

The Jerk

Comedy

That wild and crazy guy, Steve Martin, makes his film-starring debut in the wacky comedy hit The Jerk. Steve plays Navin Johnson, the adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches...right back to rags. Steve propels Navin through a string of misadventures-becoming smitten with a lady motorcycle racer, surviving a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer, and becoming a millionaire by inventing the "Opti-grab" handle for eyeglasses-and shows why he's one of the hottest comic performers in the world.

Beverly Hills Vamp

Comedy

It's comedy-horror with a bite when three nerdish wannabe filmmakers bring their script to a "famous" Hollywood movie director. While waiting for the director's response, they phone up an escort service. The frightening fun begins when the guys fall under the spell of their "dates"— vampire Madame Cassandra (Britt Ekland) and her blood-lustful girls.

Ride

Comedy

Academy Award Winner Helen Hunt stars as a mother who travels cross-country to California to be with her son (Brenton Thwaites) after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer. In an attempt to reconnect with her son, she decides to learn how to surf and develops a relationship with her instructor (Luke Wilson).

Prankster

Comedy

Johnny and Conner are working to get ahead in the corporate world, but Conner is having him do all the work. Strange piratical jokes suddenly start happening around the office and Johnny realizes the cause is his imaginary friend, Bobo, from childhood.

CornerStore

Comedy

CornerStore chronicles one hot summer day at a convenience store in Detroit. The store is operated by Earl Jenkins, father of Gerard and Gail. Gerard’s dream is to attend culinary school in New York to become a chef.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Comedy

A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition, but soon finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation, along with the girl he dreamed about in high school and the detective who was training him for his upcoming "role." Written and directed by Shane Black, creator of the "Lethal Weapon" series. Starring Golden Globe-winner and Academy and Emmy Award-nominated Robert Downey Jr. ("Gothika," "Chaplin"), Val Kilmer ("Alexander," "Batman Forever") and Michelle Monaghan ("The Bourne Supremacy," TV's "Boston Public").

Chick Fight

Comedy

When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.

Early Man

Comedy

Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of how plucky caveman Dug, along with sidekick Hognob, unites his tribe against the mighty Bronze Age in a battle to beat them at their own game.

Grandview, U.S.A.

Comedy

Grandview, U.S.A. joins together unforgettable stars in a quirky romantic comedy set in a town like no other. Jamie Lee Curtis stars as Michelle “Mike” Cody, proprietor of a demolition derby. Patrick Swayze is her star driver “Slam” Webster, who’s just as fast as he is reckless. Everything changes when recent high school graduate Tim Pearson (C. Thomas Howell) crashes into their lives, leading to an unlikely romantic triangle with hilarious and heart-wrenching consequences.

It Happened to Jane

Comedy

A Maine widow becomes a cause celebre when she sues a railroad tycoon over the loss of a valuable shipment of lobsters.

Red One

Comedy

After Santa Claus – aka RED ONE – is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security teams up with an infamous bounty hunter to save Christmas.

Such Good People

Comedy

This screwball comedy follows a young couple who discover a secret room filled with cash while house-sitting for celebrity friends who die under mysterious circumstances while overseas…but can they make a clean get a way with the money?

Seven Days' Leave (1942)

Comedy

Victor Mature and Lucille Ball lead a star-studded cast in this wacky romantic comedy in which a serviceman has one week to wed an heiress. High-spirited soldier Johnny Grey suddenly inherits $100,000. There's just one catch: Johnny must marry heiress Terry (Ball), whom he has never met, within seven days. Supporting comedians and specialty performers include Harold Peary (in his traditional "Great Gildersleeve" radio persona), Ralph Edwards (shown hosting his popular television game show Truth or Consequences), announcer Charles Victor (emceeing his Court of Missing Heirs radio program), singers Ginny Simms and Marcy McGuire, south-of-the-border entertainer Mapy Cortes, and bandleaders Freddy Martin and Les Brown.

The Sex Monster

Comedy

In this outrageously funny look at marriage and sexuality in the '90s, a happily married man persuades his loving wife to help him live out the ultimate male fantasy. When Marty convinces Laura (Mariel Hemingway) that their marriage needs a little more spice, he gets more than he bargained for, as Laura agrees to take part in a threesome - and turns into a female sex machine!

Creator

Comedy

Dr. Harry Wolper (Peter O’Toole), a lonely biologist, is unable to let go of the memory of his beloved wife who died 25 years earlier during childbirth. Armed with his genius as both a biologist and a physician, he is intent on mastering the process of creating life, specifically in the form of his dead wife. All that’s standing in his way is the university, the faculty, the laws of nature and about 20 local ordinances. But just when he is about to unravel the mystery of life, a sexy young assistant moves in and captures his heart. Now, the only life that comes unraveled is his own. This wild and wonderful fantasy is comically brought together by a wacky professor and his free-spirited assistant.

Life With Mikey

Comedy

Mikey is a former child star having a little trouble with his new role as a kid's talent agent. He's desperate to find a way to keep his third-rate talent agency from going under when he meets Angie, a young con artist. With her streetwise smarts and irresistible charm, she's a natural for TV commercials and could be their ticket to the big time -- if they don't drive each other crazy first!

Ringmaster

Comedy

Take a trip with special guests as they journey through the mayhem and mischief backstage and in front of the cameras...and watch Jerry Springer as he attempts to keep pace with the dramas unfolding and undressing around him.

They Came Together

Comedy

This hilarious sendup of everyone's favorite guilty pleasure - the romantic-comedy - stars Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler as the most unlikely couple you'll meet outside a Nora Ephron film. Joel (Rudd) is a big-time corporate suit vying to shut down Molly's (Poehler) quirky indie candy shop around the corner … and to steal her heart. They live happily ever after…until they don't. But maybe they do? (Hint: Joel bares his heart in a big speech at the end.) From the director of Wet Hot American Summer and Role Models comes this fresh, irreverent comedy with heart.

Bryan Callen: Complicated Apes

Comedy

Bryan Callen records his third special in Chicago’s historic Thalia Hall and reconsiders our debate on all things equality. He rails against our tendencies to turn each other into nouns like black, white, immigrant, Muslim, gay, straight, man, woman, and instead suggests that the best way to navigate our current culture war is to think of our fellow humans not as a fixed label, but as verbs.

Auntie Mame

Comedy

The legendary Rosalind Russell ("Gypsy," "His Girl Friday") recreates on screen her Broadway triumph as an eccentric grande dame who teaches her 10-year old nephew to appreciate life. As she puts it..."life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death."

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