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Check out the first trailer for The FP, a new dark dystopian movie in which gangs fight for supremacy... by playing Dance Dance Revolution. My favorite part? The bit where the gangsta tells the main character, JTro, "Dance with your mind!" More »
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Robin Williams is doing press for Happy Feet Two, and he's apparently in a mood to reminisce. Moviefone got him talking about a lot of his early projects — including how his alien sitcom Mork and Mindy got off the ground: More »
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Three unmarried sisters are looking for love, while their mother gently teases them from the kitchen. Except the mother is talking to her daughters via videophone, because one is in Australia, one is on a movie set, and another is on the Chinese space station. Luckily, you can still find love even in the crazy future! More »
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We've seen Major Tom's foibles as a semi-depressing children book, but what if it was actually a by-the-book NASA operation? Let Killing My Lobster teach you why British people have been banned from the infinite of the cosmos. More »
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From the sketch comedy group POKYPAC comes The Walken Dead, a television series about an entire planet overrun by undead cannibals who know how to run a joke into the ground. Zombies and Christopher Walken impressions may be a smidge overplayed, but they're surprisingly fresh combined. More »
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Has it been almost 25 years since The Princess Bride came out? Inconceivable! You must, must check out this amazing reunion footage of the whole cast all together and talking about one of the funniest films ever made. More »
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Brash "sex comedy" Love Bites is bucking the horror movie virgin rule. In this werewolf movie, the virgins are getting attacked by the supernatural beasts first. Aaaaand scene. More »
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For every Freaky Friday, there are a hundred Hot Chicks. Hollywood loves to bombard us with terrible comedies about contrived magical mix-ups, in which somebody learns something meaningful about life and stuff. More »
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There are only five episodes remaining to Futurama's sixth season, and we managed to see a lot of them at the show's Comic-Con panel. Including the entirety of an insanely funny anime segment! More »
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You may or may not remember that Jack Black was in line to star in a comedic version of Green Lantern at one point. It turns out the unproduced screenplay is available online, and... it's not very funny. More »
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Ben Stiller may be ready to save the world from suburban alien mayhem in the movie Neighborhood Watch. But can a pack of overweight Dads fleeing from ET make you laugh? More »
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It's not always easy being an evil wizard — just ask Justin Theroux, who plays the villain of Your Highness. His character needs to have sex with Zooey Deschanel to create a giant dragon, only to run into performance anxiety. More »
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It's no surprise that when the creator of Super and Slither does a web sitcom it's so disgusting and freaky that it will make your soul feel dirty while you snicker. More »
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Nerd art group monochrom has just started up its sitcom about life aboard the ISS. Get ready for serious goofery. Here's the series premiere! More »
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According to rumors the Syfy channel is hell-bent on making a single camera comedy series. We've got a list of the three possible pilots Syfy could order up — vote for the one you'd like to see! More »
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On the surface, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Paul looks like a drugs-and-sex-addled reimagining of E.T.. But Paul, opening today, is actually also about how America is an alien planet. More »
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Amy Pond finally meets the one person in the universe who can stand up to her — and it looks like they're getting along quite well, in the first brief clip from the skit airing during Friday's Comic Relief special. More »
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In El Super Policia 880, a down-on-his-luck cop meets some aliens, who turn him into a super-cop. Soon he's stopping criminals, preventing professors from being zapped with their own super-weapons, and teaching all the other cops to dance. More »
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Need to amuse the kiddies while you recover from your Friday-night excesses? Gnomeo and Juliet is a remarkably pleasant film to watch with a hangover, featuring tons of Shakespearean in-jokes, garden gnome slapstick and Elton John cameos. It's the sort of film that's funny when you're barely awake, and it won't make your headache any worse, even though it's in 3D. More »
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Silver Age Batman had some pretty insane adventures, but what if his exploits continued into the 21st century? According to Caldwell Tanner and Kevin Corrigan of College Humor, he'd battle macros, memes, internet trolls, and the notorious longcat, of course. More »
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Fans of classic British comedy, like Monty Python, should check out the 1969 Richard Lester film, The Bed-Sitting Room. Technically, it's a post-apocalyptic film, set after a nuclear war, but mostly it's just very daft. Like this "Aquatic Bishop" scene. More »
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are brilliantly out of their depth as UFO tourists who meet a totally obscene alien, in this full-length trailer for the comedy Paul. Other treats include Evil Sigourney Weaver and some sick E.T. jokes. [Apple] More »
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Stuntman Stephen Ho describes his attempt to bring the Donatello suit into the bedroom. Even though the suit was from The Secret of the Ooze, and thus a piece of film history, it did not work for him. More »
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We've all heard of The Star Wars Holiday Special, but have you ever seen The Tron Holiday Special? Jefferson Starship was in this too! Funny or Die has dug up scenes from this lost classic. Will RAM save Cyber-Christmas? More »
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What would happen if the famously grizzled German director Werner Herzog was allowed to reinterpret the legend of Santa Claus? You would get a consciousness-shattering tale of an omniscient dwarf who judges us from afar, tabulating our sins. More »
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Leslie Nielsen, who died last night, helped to pioneer the science fiction genre on screen when he starred in Forbidden Planet. And then he helped lampoon that genre in countless spoof movies, including 2001: A Space Travesty. More »
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Given that the entire planet's been in throes of Pottermania for over a decade, the internet's churned out tons of funny (and profoundly bizarre) video tributes to J.K. Rowling's boy wizard. Here are some of the best. More »
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Craig Ferguson dared to mock the scourge of the universe, the Daleks, in his monologue on tonight's show. (And yes, we'd already noticed that the eyestalk is really phallic.) Tomorrow night: the Doctor himself, Matt Smith, will brave Ferguson's show. More »
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Mr. Show's 1998 sketch "Monster Parties: Fact or Fiction?" has a fascinating conceit: what if "The Monster Mash" was non-fiction? This eight-minute comedic tour de force is a pitch-perfect imitation of Unsolved Mysteries-style documentaries More »
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Chances are, Joseph Kahn directed one of your favorite music videos: He's worked with U2, Britney, Eminem and Lady Gaga. He's just finished shooting a time-traveling horror comedy called Detention, and he gave us the inside scoop and exclusive photos. More »
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If you had to watch a remake of a 1980s science fiction comedy film, which one would you want to see remade? We're grappling with that question over at io9's Facebook page! Just remember: Be excellent to each other. More »
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Iron Man director Jon Favreau stars in The Big Empty, in which he gets hired to make a delivery — and winds up out in the middle of the desert, where 27 people in blue tracksuits have a strange mission. More »
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Doctor Who fans will soon be angrily explaining (again) that their phone booth came first. Alex Winter - Bill - has confirmed a rumor that the Bill and Ted series is going to become a trilogy. More »
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The Brothers Grim and Grimy, who previously condensed Call of the Cthulhu into two minutes, have now Cliff-Noted J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. They play it pretty fast and loose here. Did you know Gollum was a chupacabra? More »
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The enterprising jokesters at College Humor have capitalized on the backlash against M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming "Satan-in-an-elevator" film Devil with this fake preview about a chilling world without Shyamalaniacs. Except for M. Night Shyamalan, of course. More »
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Hanna is Not a Boy's Name stars a nameless zombie employed by a bouncing-off-the-walls hyper detective. Together, they investigate offbeat paranormal mysteries — and try not to get too many people killed in the process. More »
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It's a typical day in New York. Leia Organa's doing some light reading on the subway, when suddenly a cadre of Imperial trooper enters. One stop later, a Sith Lord is using public transportation. Yes, Improv Everywhere has struck again. More »
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...and they're good! Futurama makes its Comedy Central debut until tomorrow, but we've had a sneak peek at the first two outings. It looks like there's plenty of life left in everyone's favorite animated scifi comedy that refuses to die. More »
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You've seen Avatar's sex cartoons and real life parodies, but here's the real pornographic deal. This is the first image from Hustler's Avatar porn, This Ain't Avatar XXX. If Jake Sooley doesn't "make tsaheylu" with a tree, we're out. More »
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Jack Black is Lemuel Gulliver in the new retelling of Jonathan's Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The first ever trailer has been released and it's just as discouraging for the future of humanity as you'd expect. More »
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