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34 Years Ago, ‘SNL’ Apologized for This Wayne’s World Joke About Chelsea Clinton

On December 5, 1992, Saturday Night Live opened up with a Wayne’s World sketch in which Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) count down the...

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41 Years Ago, Hulk Hogan Choked Richard Belzer Unconscious and Left Him Bleeding on Live TV

On March 27, 1985, comedian and future Law & Order: SVU star Richard Belzer welcomed Mr. T and Hulk Hogan—who were promoting WrestleMania I—onto...

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The First ‘Jetsons’ Movie Has a Surprisingly Dark Production History

Last week, Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed that Jim Carrey will be starring in a new live-action film adaptation of The Jetsons. Longtime fans of the...

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21 Years Ago, Roger Ebert Hated This Rob Schneider Movie So Much He Gave It Zero Stars

The 2005 Rob Schneider comedy Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo could never accurately be referred to as a critically acclaimed movie. In a front-page...

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Before Bruce Willis, ‘Die Hard’ Was Offered to a Legendary Singer for a Weird Reason

When you think about who could’ve pulled off playing John McClane in 1988’s Die Hard other than Bruce Willis, what kind of names pop into your...

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The Bobcat Goldthwait Joke That (Allegedly) Made Jerry Seinfeld Hate Him Forever

To say that Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t like Bobcat Goldthwait would be a huge understatement. Goldthwait evidently first raised Seinfeld’s ire in...

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WATCH: The ‘Family Guy’ Joke Seth MacFarlane Decided Was Too Much

In April 2006, South Park dedicated an hour’s worth of screen time to bashing Family Guy with their special two-part “Cartoon Wars” saga. The...

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Did One of the Munchkins Hang Himself on the Set of ‘The Wizard of Oz’?

One of the most persistent urban legends in Hollywood history revolves around a munchkin hanging himself during a scene from 1939’s The Wizard of...

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15 Years Ago, a ‘Game of Thrones’ Episode Featured the Decapitated Head of a Former U.S. President

In the Season 1 Game of Thrones episode “Fire and Blood,” King Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson) gruesomely forces Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) to...

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There’s a Ghost Hiding in ‘The Godfather,’ and Even Francis Ford Coppola Didn’t Catch It

The funeral sequence at the end of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 mob classic The Godfather turned out a lot creepier than the director ever intended...

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69 Years Ago, Abbott and Costello’s Feud Took a Very NSFW Turn

Few comedy duos from the early part of the 20th century were as successful as Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Between 1935 and 1957, the pair dominated...

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20 Years Ago, Bill Burr Roasted an Entire Philadelphia Audience for 12 Minutes Straight

On September 9, 2006, the Opie and Anthony radio show’s Traveling Virus comedy tour made a stop at the Tweeter Center in Camden, New Jersey—just...

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The Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan Fight That Jerry Springer Had to Break Up

Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne have known each other for close to 20 years now. The two first met the night before they were scheduled to appear as...

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21 Years Ago, A Barbie Movie Gave Harvey Weinstein a Deeply Awkward Cameo

On August 30, 2005, Disney’s Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the direct-to-DVD animated film My Scene Goes Hollywood: The Movie. Based on...

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27 Years Ago, Jim Carrey Accepted an MTV Award in Disguise and Refused to Break Character

On June 5, 1999, Jim Carrey showed up to the MTV Movie Awards looking nothing like the rubber-faced comedian we’d come to know from movies like Ace...

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The Central Park Photos of Robin Williams That Went Unrecognized for Decades

One weekend in 1974, photographer Daniel Sorine took a walk over to Manhattan’s Central Park to snap some pictures. At the time, the area was what...

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‘Seven’ Almost Had an Even Darker Ending Than the Head in the Box

If you haven’t seen the 1995 David Fincher thriller Seven (a.k.a. Se7en), you’ve got two options right now: Either go check that out real quick...

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43 Years Ago, William Shatner Says He Got Banned From ‘The Tonight Show’ for This Wild Reason

Between 1963 and 1983, Star Trek star William Shatner was credited with appearing on The Tonight Show ten times. Though Johnny Carson hosted the show...

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Why ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Censors Some of His Own Songs Now

While speaking with Vulture in 2018, “Weird Al” Yankovic explained that there were certain words he’d used on his early records that he excludes...

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11 Years Ago, Kenan Thompson Drew a Line That Changed ‘SNL’s Cast Forever

While speaking with TV Guide in 2013, Kenan Thompson announced that he would no longer do sketches on Saturday Night Live that required him to dress...

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Mister Rogers Got a Kick Out of Farting in Public, According to His Widow

Fred Rogers, best known for playing Mister Rogers on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, had as spotless a reputation as an entertainer could hope for. In...

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The ‘Seinfeld’ Star Who Almost Played Al Bundy on ‘Married… With Children’

Casting the role of Al Bundy on Married… With Children was no easy task. During the early stages of production, the part was actually offered to Sam...

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‘Apocalypse Now’ Almost Killed Martin Sheen and Francis Ford Coppola

Working on the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola movie Apocalypse Now doesn’t sound like it was a smooth process for anybody involved. Primarily filmed on...

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Jon Lovitz and Andy Dick’s Feud Over Phil Hartman Ended With a Fight at the Laugh Factory

Jon Lovitz has had issues with Andy Dick for close to 30 years now. The two first butted heads when Lovitz joined the cast of NewsRadio following Phil...

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21 Years Ago, Bill Maher Made a Michael Jackson Joke So Bad Craig Ferguson Ended the Interview

Between 2005 and 2013, Bill Maher appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson six times. Perhaps Maher’s most notable interview with Ferguson...

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Why Brandon T. Jackson Got Kicked Off the Set of ‘8 Mile’

Brandon T. Jackson first started rising in the ranks after appearing in the 2005 dramedy Roll Bounce. He followed that up with a memorable part in...

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Charlie Sheen Says Ozzy Osbourne Told Him He Smoked for ‘A Thousand Years’ When They Met in Rehab

While appearing on Loudwire Nights late last year, Charlie Sheen revealed that during one of his several stints in rehab, he was briefly joined by...

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19 Years Ago, Fox Cut This Brutal ‘Family Guy’ Joke About ‘The Simpsons’

Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy was getting compared to The Simpsons from the moment it first hit the airwaves back in 1999. Before long, the two shows...

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David Lynch Once Wrote a Body-Swap Comedy for Steve Martin, and It Sounds Completely Insane

At some point in the 1980s, Eraserhead director David Lynch wrote a script for a bizarre body-swap comedy with his future Twin Peaks collaborator Mark...

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27 Years Ago, a Tiger Woods Video Game Was Recalled Because of a Hidden ‘South Park’ Short

The first public scandal involving Tiger Woods actually had nothing to do with his personal life. Back in 1998, EA Sports decided to capitalize on the...

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You Can Eat at Leatherface’s House From ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’

Anyone who’s seen the original 1974 version of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre will no doubt recall the infamous house that Leatherface shares with his...

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40 Years Ago, Eddie Murphy Backed Out of Doing a ‘Star Trek’ Movie to Play One of His Least Celebrated Roles

When 1986’s Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home first went into development at Paramount Pictures, the studio explored the possibility of adding Eddie...

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A Creepy ‘Ghost’ Appears in ‘The Fugitive,’ and Nobody Knows Who He Is

Seven years after the 1993 Harrison Ford thriller The Fugitive was first released, producer Peter MacGregor-Scott noticed something unusual while...

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26 Years Ago, ‘What Women Want’ Cut a Secret Steve Martin Cameo for This Weird Reason

2000’s What Women Want began life as an undeveloped idea that King of Queens producers Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith pitched to Disney’s...

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37 Years Ago, Andrew Dice Clay Got Banned from MTV Because of This Filthy VMA Set

On September 6, 1989, MTV made the baffling decision to let X-rated comedian Andrew Dice Clay do stand-up at that year’s Video Music Awards. In his...

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Marlon Brando’s Final Movie Feud Included One Very Strange Pants Story

Before the 2001 thriller The Score hit theaters in July of that year, rumors began to circulate of on-set tension between director Frank Oz and Marlon...

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30 Years Ago, a Random Naked Guy Ended Up in ‘Twister,’ and We Still Don’t Know Why

So many movies are hiding interesting secrets that are just waiting to be discovered. Some are intentionally hidden by the filmmakers themselves,...

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26 Years Ago, ‘Meet the Parents’ Had a Scene So Disturbing the CIA Changed It

2000’s Meet the Parents, like many other movies, went through some significant changes before making it to theaters. For starters, Jim Carrey was...

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Jason Alexander Apologizes for ‘Inappropriate’ Comedy Sketch With Teenage Reality Star

In 2012, Jason Alexander wrote and starred in a sketch for FunnyOrDie.com featuring controversial reality TV stars Doug Hutchison and Courtney...

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17 Years Ago, Comedy Central Trolled Kanye West by Airing the Same ‘South Park’ Episode for Two Hours

On April 8, 2009, the South Park episode “Fishsticks” hilariously took aim at rapper Kanye West. The show revolves around a joke written by the...

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Jay Mohr Says He Once Walked Into a Comedy Club and Found Tracy Morgan Fighting Audience Members

During an appearance on the Lamont & Tonelli Show in 2017, Jay Mohr fondly remembered a wild encounter he’d had with Tracy Morgan back in their...

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One of Rob Lowe’s Ancestors Was Hired to Kill a Future U.S. President

On April 27, 2012, Rob Lowe appeared on the NBC documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, seeking information about a mystery relative by the name...

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Why So Many Comedians Have the Same NSFW Rodney Dangerfield Story

While speaking with MEL magazine about Rodney Dangerfield back in 2018, comedian Harry Basil, who’d co-written 1997’s Meet Wally Sparks with...

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25 Years Ago, ‘Jackass’ Stars Made a George Carlin Poop Joke Obsolete in the Most Disgusting Way Imaginable

Before Jackass launched on MTV back in 2000, some of the future members of the cast—including Bam Margera, Brian DiCamillo, Ryan Dunn, and Chris...

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40 Years Ago, NBC Got Literal Feces in the Mail for Censoring Sam Kinison on ‘SNL’

On October 18, 1986, Sam Kinison made his final appearance as a recurring special guest on Saturday Night Live. After being introduced by...

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Jim Carrey’s ‘The Mask’ Secretly Used One of the Most Famous Comedy Movie Locations Ever

Early on in the 1994 Jim Carrey comedy The Mask, Stanley Ipkiss (Carrey) is shown entering an auto repair shop with the intention of picking up his...

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The Creepy Hotel Room Stories Behind ‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’

Working on a horror movie can certainly be scary for some people, but it’s especially creepy when unexplained things start happening after you’ve...

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Walt Disney Helped Create a Mickey Mouse Gas Mask During World War II

Shortly after World War II began, the United States had to consider the very real possibility of chemical warfare. As such, the U.S. government...

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15 Years Ago, Hugh Grant Turned Down a Huge Payday to Replace Charlie Sheen on ‘Two and a Half Men’

After Charlie Sheen was fired from Two and a Half Men back in 2011, series creator Chuck Lorre made the interesting decision to keep the show going...

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The Real Reason Eddie Murphy Left the Oscars Early After Losing for ‘Dreamgirls’

Back in 2007, Eddie Murphy made headlines for supposedly storming out of the Oscars after losing Best Supporting Actor to Alan Arkin. Murphy was up...

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