40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Read Under Our Covers While Our Parents Thought We Were Asleep

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Read Under Our Covers While Our Parents Thought We Were Asleep

Why do so many American actors show up to auditions for British-coded series without a British accent?

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Leela

Stupid plots that became reality On Futurama Zapp Brannigan mistakenly names Leela as Miss Universe 3001. In reality Steve Harvey mistakenly named Miss Colombia as Miss Universe 2015. MADE UNITESSE THE CRACKED.COM

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It’s A Wonderful Life

It's A Wonderful Life isn't just a classic - it's actually also a studio-killing flop. The movie bombed when it was released and bankrupted its studio. It only started to be considered a classic decades later. CRACKED.COM

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Run Lola Run

TIME LOOP MOVIES RUN LOLA RUN THERE WAS NO STUDIO MEDDLING. Director Tom Tykwer could do the movie he wanted without answering to any studio suit-because he was the studio suit. Не was a founder of the film's production company, X-Filme Creative Pool. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

OTAR TREK was saved by writing letters to the studio. Now Paramount's leading franchise, Star Trek was saved in its second season by thousands of fans

Trident Studios

The studio recordings HEy for JUDE and BOHEMIAN RttApsoDy Were done on the same piano. It was the 100-year-old Bechstein Grand Piano at Trident Studio

Tim Roth

Tim Roth thought he'd be crap during his Reservoir Dogs audition, So Quentin Tarantino got him drunk. Roth read the script for Tarantino's debut fil

Elizabeth Olsen

Elizabeth Olsen's audition for Game of Thrones was her most awkward. N They asked her to audition as Dany with and without a British accent, delivering the speech right after she emerges from the fire in season 1. It was terrible, she says. CRACKED.COM

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William Hung

CON In 2004. despite William Hung's failure to impress the judges in an American Idol audition. his jovial attitude made him (and his audition footage

The Felonious Fart Song

COMEDIANS WERE ARRESTED FOR A FART SONG IN 1981. CRACKED Dallas police arrested comedy team Bowley & Wilson on stage after a woman complained that her 16 year old daughter was exposed to vulgarity. Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff said, They were facing a year in prison for doing 'The Fart Song.

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Steve Martin

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (1988) TWO CON MEN MAKE A WAGER TO SEE WHO CAN SWINDLE A WOMAN OUT OF HER RICHES FIRST. WHY IT WORKS: Steve Martin vamps and Michael Caine charms us as two of the most despicable men in comedy film history.

Jamie Foxx

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JAMIE FOXX Jamie Foxx is the kind of person who you'd hate to be related to because he's just too good at everything. Singing, dancing, standup, dramatic roles, and sketch comedy. We GET it, Jamie.

David Zucker

David Zucker, comedy legend Best: Airplane! More laughs per minute than AlRMi any other movie, this spoof is everything that every comedy should striv

Premium Blend

PREMIUM BLEND Stand-up comedy was cheap and early Comedy Central needed cheap programming. Premium Blend featured short sets by soon-to-be-famous comics, launching acts like Mitch Hedberg, B.J. Novak, and Demetri Martin into their own Comedy Central Presents specials. CRACKED.COM

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