Movies & TV
10 Years Later, It’s Still Crazy That ‘21 Jump Street’ Actually Worked
Channing Tatum trying to be funny? The guys who made ‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs’ doing an R-rated buddy-cop movie? It seemed like a dumb idea, but this big-screen redo of a cheesy 1980s TV show isn’t just hysterical — it helped change the careers of everyone involved
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- By Tim Grierson
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Funniest Moments of Actors Making Fun of Themselves in Comedies
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- By Zanandi Botes
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In Praise of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Comedy Chops
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- By JM McNab
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How the ‘Woody Allen Font’ Has Been Reclaimed
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- By JM McNab
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
Throwaway Jokes That Required A Lot More Work Than You'd Think
Sometimes, coming up with a good joke takes more effort than simply feeling inspired and tweeting an Updog equivalent while enjoying some me-time on the toilet.
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- By Zanandi Botes
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15 Parody Films With Legitimately Badass Moments
Bad-ass movies deserve bad-ass parodies.
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- By Jay Wells L'Ecuyer, JhallComics
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‘The Polar Express’: How Robert Zemeckis Turned Tom Hanks Into An Uncanny Valley Monster
In the 2004 animated film, America’s most beloved movie star looks less like a human and more like three raccoons in a trench coat
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- By Zanandi Botes
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I Supplied the Coke, Guns and Cash for ‘Scarface’
Legendary prop master John Zemansky tells us how he secured enough blow for a herd of elephants and enough weaponry for a small army while working on the 1983 classic.
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- By Brian VanHooker
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26 Incidents of Celebrity Drama For All The Gossip Goblins
Showbiz isn't as fun as it looks.
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- By Brian C. Miller, Cracked Writers
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Christmas Specials from Franchises That Had No Business Having A Christmas Special
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ isn’t even close to being the weirdest one
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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The Hidden Climate Doom Lurking in ‘The Office’ Winter Episodes
Will Dunder Mifflin destroy humanity as we know it?
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- By JM McNab
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Is Daniel Craig Just Doing a Foghorn Leghorn Impersonation in the ‘Knives Out’ Movies?: An Investigation
His Benoit Blanc might sound like a giant cartoon rooster — and share the last name of the man who originally voiced that giant cartoon rooster — but does that make that giant cartoon rooster his actual inspiration?
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- By Brian VanHooker
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The Raunchy R-Rated Version of ‘Enchanted’ We Missed Out On
There was very much a world in which it could have been ‘There’s Something About Mary’ with princesses and singing woodland creatures
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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14 Actors Who Weren’t Too Hot On Their Own Movies
Ian McKellen is not a fan of green screens.
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- By Andrea Meno, JhallComics
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I Was Thurman Merman in ‘Bad Santa’
Brett Kelly was only eight when he auditioned for the R-rated Christmas classic. He tells ‘Cracked’ how he almost didn’t get the part — and why Thurman is smarter than you realize
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- By Tim Grierson
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