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The Star of ‘Frosty the Snowman’ Had ‘At Least Three’ Secret Families, According to His Son

Jackie Vernon’s son, David, had some interesting things to share about the Frosty the Snowman star. During an appearance on Nostalgia Tonight With...

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The Actress Who Voiced Betty Boop Was Also in ‘Christmas Vacation’

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, released in 1989, brought down the curtain on the career of actress Mae Questel, after six decades in show...

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4 Christmas Comedies You Didn’t Know Had Sequels

People just can’t seem to resist making sequels to successful films. It’s pretty much standard practice at this point, and Christmas movies are no...

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4 Props From Christmas Comedies You Can Buy Replicas Of

Some of the most memorable Christmas comedies also featured memorable props. Quirky things like the Red Ryder BB gun from A Christmas Story or the...

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‘Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animal’: The Old Movies in the ‘Home Alone’ Movies That Don’t Really Exist

The old black-and-white gangster flicks seen in the first two Home Alone movies have become almost as iconic as the films they’re featured in. In...

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The Stand-Up Comedian Who Got Cut Out of ‘Bad Santa’

As we’ve mentioned before, Bad Santa was shaping up to be a somewhat different movie in its early stages. It was originally written with James...

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The Director of ‘A Christmas Story’ Also Directed a Gritty Christmas Slasher

The holiday season is here again, and you know what that means: It’s only a matter of time before A Christmas Story is being shown on television to...

wednesday 5

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Did Joe Pesci Almost Star in ‘Jingle All the Way’?

Released in 1996, Jingle All the Way tells the story of Howard Langston, who sets out to find his son the most in-demand toy of the year in time for...

wednesday 6

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‘Trading Places’ Has Become a Christmas Staple in Italy

Each year around Christmastime, millions of Italians gather around their TVs for the annual broadcast of Una Poltrona Per Due (translation: “An...

wednesday 10

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How a ‘Chappelle’s Show’ Skit Ruined a 2005 Political Campaign

On February 4, 2004, Chappelle’s Show introduced a segment called “Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories.” The subject of that night’s...

23.12.2025 2

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A Few People Got Hurt Filming the ‘Home Alone’ Movies, But Only Macaulay Culkin Was Scarred

When you make a movie containing as many violent stunts as Home Alone, it stands to reason that the people involved will end up with some bumps and...

19.12.2025 3

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Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy Talked About Playing Batman and Robin

The journey to bringing Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman movie to the screen began a decade before its eventual release. Producer Michael Uslan first...

18.12.2025 3

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The ‘Friends’ Star Who Voiced a Character in ‘Fallout: New Vegas’

The 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of Las Vegas, many years after a nuclear war. The player assumes the...

17.12.2025 3

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Rodney Dangerfield Once Saved Sam Kinison From the Mob

Sam Kinison’s history with substance abuse was no secret. Alcohol and cocaine caused several problems for the comedian throughout his life, and...

16.12.2025 3

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The Bill Murray-Dan Aykroyd Movie That Was Shelved After Being Filmed

In 1984, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels produced his first film, a sci-fi comedy titled Nothing Lasts Forever. Shot in both...

15.12.2025 4

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Is Chris Farley to Blame For a Famous ‘Star Wars’ Misquote?

One of the most memorable moments in the entire Star Wars franchise happened at the end of 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back. During the famous...

15.12.2025 2

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8 Comedy Stars Who Somehow Never Appeared on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Saturday Night Live has established itself over the years as the go-to TV show for entertainers to appear on during promotional tours. It’s also...

15.12.2025 3

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Dick Van Dyke at 100: Showcasing a Master of Physical Comedy

Comedy legend Dick Van Dyke turns 100 years old today. With a career spanning eight decades, Van Dyke has given us an incredible body of work to...

13.12.2025 10

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Did Rodney Dangerfield Have a Heart Attack on ‘The Tonight Show’?

On November 21, 2001, Rodney Dangerfield appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to celebrate his 80th birthday. After performing stand-up,...

12.12.2025 5

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Jimi Hendrix’s Favorite Records Were Stand-Up Comedy Albums

Jimi Hendrix’s old apartment at 23 Brook Street in London—along with the next-door home once occupied by 18th-century composer George Frideric...

12.12.2025 3

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The Creator of ‘The Simpsons’ Was in a Band With Stephen King

In 1992, author and musician Kathi Kamen Goldmark formed a rock band that would become known as The Rock Bottom Remainders. Working as a media escort...

12.12.2025 3

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The ‘Dick Van Dyke Show’ Character Who Was Based on Mel Brooks

When Carl Reiner set out to create the sitcom that eventually became The Dick Van Dyke Show, he knew that he had to try something that hadn’t been...

10.12.2025 3

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The ‘Jackass’ Star Who Turned Down ‘Saturday Night Live’

If Lorne Michaels had gotten his way in 2000, Jackass, as we know it, might never have come to be. It was around that time that Johnny Knoxville’s...

09.12.2025 4

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That Time Tim Allen Almost Got Life in Prison

Tim Allen’s path to success was not without its hiccups. He started having problems after his father died in a car accident in 1964. Allen was just...

09.12.2025 3

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Kelsey Grammer Had Larry David Booted From His ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ House

Eagle-eyed fans of Curb Your Enthusiasm have no doubt noticed that Larry David’s character doesn’t live in the same house during the show’s 12...

09.12.2025 20

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The Iconic Rapper Whose First Movie Role Was in a Dan Aykroyd Box Office Bomb

On February 15, 1991, Warner Bros. released the horror-comedy Nothing but Trouble, directed by Dan Aykroyd. The film stars Chevy Chase as a...

08.12.2025 9

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The 1960s Comedy Lorne Michaels Wanted to Remake With Mike Myers

Mike Myers was a Saturday Night Live cast member for exactly six years, from January 21, 1989, to January 21, 1995. During that time, he...

08.12.2025 6

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Dirty Jokes Hiding in 6 Old Movies and Shows

As with most unimportant issues, there’s a generational divide over older movies and TV shows, particularly those from the black-and-white era....

05.12.2025 2

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The Time Redd Foxx Almost Stabbed a Guy on the Set of a Dick Van Dyke Movie

In 1987, sitcom legends Dick Van Dyke and Redd Foxx joined forces for a TV movie titled Ghost of a Chance, a year after Foxx had worked with Van...

05.12.2025 5

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There’s an Entire Short Film Hidden Throughout Several Episodes of ‘The Simpsons’

The second season of The Simpsons introduced us to McBain, a fictional movie cop played by the equally fictional action star Rainier Wolfcastle. We...

05.12.2025 20

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That Time Robin Williams Went to a Sex Shop Dressed as Mrs. Doubtfire

According to director Chris Columbus, it took makeup artists anywhere from 4.5 to 5 hours to transform Robin Williams into the titular English nanny...

04.12.2025 4

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This Stand-Up Legend Was the First to Have His Entire Set Cut From David Letterman’s Show

By October 1, 1993, Bill Hicks had appeared on David Letterman’s different late-night talk shows 11 times. That evening, he made what he thought...

04.12.2025 6

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Woody Allen and Jim Carrey Nearly Played Conjoined Twins in a Farrelly Brothers Movie

In 2003, the directors of Dumb and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary, Peter and Bobby Farrelly, released Stuck on You. The movie starred...

03.12.2025 10

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What’s Up With Chevy Chase Not Being on ‘Only Murders in the Building’?

If you’ve been keeping up with Only Murders in the Building for the past five seasons, it’s inevitably crossed your mind at some point that the...

02.12.2025 8

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4 Comedy Movies Critics Walked Out Of

Comedy films aren’t always the most critically acclaimed. As we’ve pointed out, that’s not necessarily a reflection of how audiences as a whole...

02.12.2025 4

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How a Risqué Cake Got a Famous Singer Fired From ‘Hotel Transylvania’

When Hotel Transylvania was released in September 2012, the voice of one of the main characters didn’t quite sound the way people were expecting it...

02.12.2025 3

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The Silent Film Comedian Whose Corpse Was Stolen and Held for Ransom

On Christmas morning in 1977, silent film icon Charlie Chaplin died at the age of 88. After a private funeral two days later, he was buried at the...

01.12.2025 5

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The Original ‘Meet the Parents’ Was Much Crazier Than the Ben Stiller Version

It’s not exactly common knowledge, but the Ben Stiller-Robert De Niro hit Meet the Parents, released in 2000, was actually a remake of an earlier...

28.11.2025 3

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Did Kevin James Make the Most Successful Black Friday Movie of All Time?

Despite its reputation for being rife with chaos, Black Friday hasn’t been the focus of all that many movies over the years. Some people naturally...

28.11.2025 30

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5 Comedians Who Had Sandwiches Named After Them

Awards are a friendly reminder that your work has paid off, but who’s actually seeing them other than you? Having a statue made of yourself is...

28.11.2025 3

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A Look Back at Beavis and Butt-Head’s Forgotten Thanksgiving Special

On November 27, 1997, one day before the original series finale of Beavis and Butt-Head, MTV aired a special holiday presentation titled “Beavis and...

27.11.2025 10

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The Uncomfortable Moment the Producer of ‘A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving’ Wanted to Cut

When it comes specifically to half-hour animated Thanksgiving specials, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is about as well-known and beloved as any. The...

27.11.2025 4

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The Famous Horror Author Who Started Out as a Comedy Writer

In 1986, the world was introduced to an author by the name of R.L. Stine—or so they thought. His debut novel, Blind Date, was a hit with young...

26.11.2025 20

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That One Time Johnny Rotten Narrated a ‘South Park’ Mockumentary

South Park had a big 1998. For starters, the show received its first Emmy nomination for the episode “Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ride.” On top of...

25.11.2025 3

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The Stand-Up Comedian Who Wrote Jokes For JFK

By the time Sen. John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960, a young comedian named Mort Sahl had established himself as one of the country’s top...

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4 Popular Terms and Phrases You Can Thank Comedy For

New phrases aren’t thought up by some committee of wordsmiths sitting around in an office all day long. People from many different walks of life...

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The Short-Lived Sitcom That Featured Sam Kinison and Bill Maher

By 1991, Sam Kinison had been doing stand-up comedy for 13 years and was ready to give a regular TV series a try. He stayed away from it in the past...

24.11.2025 4

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3 Gene Wilder-Richard Pryor Movies We Missed Out On

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor first appeared on screen together in the 1976 film Silver Streak. They would go on to make three more movies together:...

21.11.2025 2

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The Legendary Comedic Actor Who Turned Down ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

With Thanksgiving and Christmas fast approaching, many people will inevitably be revisiting their favorite holiday movies. Two television staples of...

21.11.2025 3

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The Martin Scorsese Movie Pete Davidson Wants to Remake With Eddie Murphy

Pete Davidson and Eddie Murphy became fast friends while working on their recent movie, The Pickup, which was released on Prime Video earlier this...

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