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Richard Pryor

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings. And lawyers. Richard Pryor — Source: 14 Jokes That Belong In The Comedy Hall Of Fame

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COMEDY NERD Al Gore appeared on 30 Rock twice, in 2007 and 2009 - both times as himself. His first appearance was in Greenzo, and the second one in Sun Tea. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Celebrity Sitcom Cameos We Totally Forgot About

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BESIDES COMEDY, PRESIDENT ZELENSKY HAD AN ACTING CAREER, TOO. His first role was apparently as D'Artagnan in 2005's The Three Musketeers. — Source

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM LEWIS BLACK IS ACTUALLY REALLY INTO WINE, ITTURNS OUT. Apparently, his journey towards becoming an amateur wine connoisseur started way back in college. — Source

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM 48 HOURS (1982) A NO-NONSENSE COP RELEASES A CONMAN INTO HIS CUSTODY IN ORDER TO CATCH A KILLER. WHY IT WORKS: It's a buddy comedy before buddy comedies had to be meta and recontextualized. There's no greater foil to Nick Nolte than Eddie Murphy in his prime.

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Aidy Bryant

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SNL COMEDIAN AIDY BRYANT HAD A CAMEO IN THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2. She's dressed up as the Statue of Liberty, having her photo taken with tourists. — Source

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COMEDY NERD Jackass Crew Quotes 10 00 00 Penises are actually really tough. Chris Pontius CRACKED COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM I've been married four years now and it's getting pretty serious. Nate Bergatze — Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

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Patton Oswalt

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM PATTON OSWALT IS APPARENTLY ADDICTED TO MOVIES, AND WROTE A BOOK ABOUT THAT. It's named, Silver Screen Fiend, and according to the description, it's about how silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notions of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. — Source

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Jim Norton

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JIM NORTON THINKS THAT DOING COMEDY WON'T HELP IF, SAY, YOU'RE DEPRESSED. al Channels Coast to Cozst % Commercial-Free Mus MUS In fact, he says, you should realize that doing comedy is only going to make your depression worse. You'll walk up onstage, the crowd won't like you, you'll go home, you'll be suicidal, you'll get addicted to it, and you'll make it a lifestyle. — Source

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Bridesmaids

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM SIX MEMBERS OF THE MOVIE'S CAST WERE MEMBERS OFTHE GROUNDLINGS BRIDAS MAIBU Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Maya Rudolph, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Ben Falcone all performed together in the LA comedy group, The Groundlings. — Source: Groundlings

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Bob Saget

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SURE, BOB SAGET WAS BEST KNOWN FOR ACTING AND COMEDY, BUT НЕ LOVED DIRECTING. Directing was basically his passion - he started doing it at college, and won a Student Academy Award in 1978. He'd directed four feature-length movies. — Source

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It’s Kind of A Funny Story

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM It's Kind Of A Funny Story A comedy set in a mental hospital following two suicidal patients. An area rife with comedy gold. Zach Galifinakis also gives us a great Baskets style dark comedy performance. *chef's kiss* — Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM DRAX I've mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still that I become invisible to the eye. Being big, green, and shirtless, the Destroyer is unintentionally hilarious.

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM LOKI YES! That's how it feels! Не wouldn't be The God of Mischief if he wasn't mischievous.

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Rodney Dangerfield

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM My mother never breast-fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend. Rodney Dangerfield — Rodney Dangerfield YouTube Channel

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COMEDY NERD Paris Hilton's 2005 hosting of SNL was kind of a trainwreck, apparently. Tina Fey later called her a nightmare host during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD Charlie Chaplin's mentor was a little-known actress called Mabel Normand. Well, little-known today, anyway - she was better known in her day, and she directed some of his movies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY of NERD CRACKED.COM Bill Murray It's not surprising to anyone that Murray has won an Emmy, but it wasn't for his work on SNL, or even for a comedy at all, really. Murray received an Emmy win for his role as widower Jack Kennison in the HBO series Olive Kitteridge.

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Kate McKinnon

COMEDY 661 NERD CRACKED.COM Kate McKinnon The SNL star known for characters like a mistreated alien abductee won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2016 for her work on SNL. She was actually the first to win this award for work on SNL itself.

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS School was adapted for Nickelodeon and BROADWAY CRAGKED.COM The School of Rock show on Nick lasted for three forgettable seasons. It fared better on the stage, with new songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber and four Tony nominations. Though it didn't win, the kids shredded during the awards show, sticking it to the Broadway man. — Source

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Seinfeld

Broadway-trained singer Jason Alexander spent about three hours recording George Costanzas' answering machine jingle, trying to get it to SOUND bad. CRACKED.COM — The Crimson

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Hollywood feuds ALEC BALDWIN VS SHIA LABEOUF While working together on the Broadway play Orphans, Labeouf attacked Baldwin for not memorizing his lines. Baldwin asked the production to let him quit, but they fired LaBeouf instead. CRACKED — Source

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A Broadway producer got around poor reviews by finding random people with the same names as theater critics. CRACKED.COM After inviting them to his show, he printed ads quoting the 7 namesakes' rave reviews. The show remained open for another 6 months. — Museum of Hoaxes / Pexels

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM The Producers 7 UF Who could forget Springtime for Hitler? Only the best song written about Hitler in the last thousand years. Two Broadway producers try to produce the worst play possible for the financial benefits in this Mel Brooks classic. — Source: The Producers

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easter eggstra meanings and references THE The Book of EXPANSE Mormon MORM THE N The Broadway show can be seen being advertised on billboards and posters throughout Ceres in the first season. CRACKED.COM — Source: Gizmodo

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BROADWAY GOES MILES AND MILES PAST THEATERS GRACKED W 25gs Broadway St Official Broadway theaters are all in a one-mile stretch, but the actual street extends 20 miles north of New York City limits. — Source: New York Times

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ELEANOR AUDLEY MADE HER ACTING DEBUT ON BROADWAY AND HAD AN EXTENSIVE RADIO CAREER.

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2015's Hamilton wasn't the first Broadway show about the man. In 1917, the play Hamilton premiered on Broadway. It was about Hamilton's push to get th

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Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi went from runaway child to Broadway celebrity, to the actor that defined Dracula (And Ygor!) in cinema, as well as our collective consciou

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Ancient Greek music was hardcore. Old-timey Greeks didn't leave any sheet music behind, but we have a good idea of what their tunes sounded like. Scholars have used a bunch of clues (poetry meter, word patterns, well-preserved instruments, and so on) to reconstruct ancient Greek music. (And it flippin' slaps.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Frank Zappa

CRACKEDCO Frank Zappa talked about digital music downloads in 1989. In his autobiography, Zappa proposed a novel music distribution system: We propos

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Stores have obnoxious fluorescent lights and terrible music for a reason. Bright lights and annoying music keep you from making good shopping decisions. CRACKED.COM — Source

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During the shooting of the music video of Taylor Swift's Shake It Off, heavy-metal music was played around the perimeter of the studio so no-one could hear the unreleased song. € 99 محمد WW CRACKED.COM — Source

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WORST REALITY TV TROPES FORCED MUSIC Everything is forced on reality TV, but manipulation through music is particularly obvious - and particularly effective. No matter what the contestant says, its meaning will change depending if the music is sad, upbeat, or sassy. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Anyone can post their music to Spotify. CD BABY CRACKED.COM While the platform may not be lucrative, Spotify does allow anyone to post their music to its platform through online distributors like CD Baby, which can be essential for building an audience. — Business Insider / Facebook

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YO the CHILD LEFT BEHIND NEVER M CONFORM R.A.P. MUS S OF THE Books S of THE CROOKS adult swim Adult Swim has a music label Williams Street Records serves as the label for music featured in Adult Swim's programming. The label also works with outside artists, like Killer Mike. whure MIGHT SAVE CRACKED.COM — Williams Street Records
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Control the flow of time, with music. Your brain notices less time when it's distracted by music, but more time if your focus jumps between music and — Source: Newsweek

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Like humans, dogs have their own music preferences. Research shows that most dogs prefer listening to reggae and soft rock than to pop or classical music. CRACKED.COM — Animals That (Eerily) Demonstrate Human-Like Behavior

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Every rocker knows about the devil horns sign. It's actually for protection. The devil horns hand gesture was first associated with metal music by Ron

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