Cracked Archive - Comedy

The Next 'Smurfs' Movie Will Have Some 'South Park' And 'Lady Dynamite' Talent
The Smurfs might soon turn into (comedy) gold.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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Will Forte: He's Criminally Underrated
Let's have a look at the underrated, actor, writer, and master of the tasteful mustache.
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- By Jonah N.
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Stephen Colbert's 'Fairview': 'South Park' Minus The Heart (Or The Funny)
Shows that try to ape 'South Park' always focus on the wrong part.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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'China, IL': Maybe The Most Bonkers 'Adult Swim' Show Ever
If you ever find yourself playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and need to link Macho Man Randy Savage and Timothée Chalamet, boy do we have a gift for you.
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- By Keegan Kelly
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Chris Farley And The Comedian Who Ignited America’s First Sex Scandal
Farley believed playing Fatty Arbuckle could have changed everything.
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- By Matt Solomon
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'Jackass' Was Almost Killed By 'Saturday Night Live'
Lorne Michaels tried to poach the most iconic jackass before the show even got started.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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Face It: Newman Isn't The Real Villain In 'Seinfeld,' Jerry Is
Jerry Seinfeld IS a very, very bad man.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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Tim Robinson Zoom-Auditions for The Postal Service: Sketch of the Week
It's like Death Cab for Cutie, but much, much larger.
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- By Matt Solomon
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Kevin Smith is the Stan Lee of Movie Comedy
It takes a huckster to know one.
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- By Matt Solomon
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'Groundhog Day' Was Inspired By (Of All Things) Anne Rice's Vampires
How Lestat the freaking Vampire got Bill Murray stuck in time.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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Reminder: 'Maus' Author Art Spiegelman Also Invented The Garbage Pail Kids
'Maus' isn't the first time Spiegelman's work is banned from classrooms.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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4 Comedy Lessons We Learned From 90s Kids Shows
Awww, here it goes.
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- By Matt Solomon
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'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia': Dennis Reynolds Is The Ultimate Supervillain
He didn't start out as a full-blown supervillain, but now he just might be the apex, the final form, the thing we should all rightly fear: I am talking about Dennis Reynolds.
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- By Chris Pauls
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Jerry Seinfeld vs. George Carlin: The Case for Cursing in Comedy
Does profanity make comedy edgy or just plain lazy?
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- By Matt Solomon
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Saturday Night Live's Jay Z Story: Sketch of the Week
Starring ... Mike O'Brien?
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- By Matt Solomon
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