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Jeremy Clarkson

CRACKED TOP GEAR JEREMY CLARKSON Jeremy Clarkson got the boot from Top Gear after getting into a fight with a producer. It started because the producer told Clarkson the hotel kitchen was closed and he couldn't get a hot meal. — Source

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Don Behrns

CRACKED COM The RV crash scene in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was a way to screw over the producer. o Producer Don Behrns would get a chunk o

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Jordan Peele

CRACKED.COM Jordan Peele He's a busy producer. Besides his own movies and shows, he has produced The Last O.G., Weird City, Hunters, Lovecraft Country, a 2019 docuseries on Lorena Bobbitt, the most recent version of The Twilight Zone, and 2021's reboot/sequel of Candyman. — Source: Wikipedia

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The Transporter

June on prime video June 1 The Transporter The movie was born from writer/producer Luc Besson and producer Steve Chasman discussing how talented Jason Statham was. The story just grew from there. CRACKED.COM — Source: TheThings

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Aliens

Aliens (1986) The studio didn't believe that Gale Anne Hurd was a real producer. Even though she had worked as a producer (and had also produced The Terminator), Hurd had to ask her industry connections to call Fox and vouch for her. — IGN

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Crusader Rabbit

The First Cartoon CRUSADER RABBIT 1950's Crusader Rabbit was the first animation designed for television. One producer would later create The Rocky an

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Rihanna

Rihanna's Diamonds took 14 minutes to write. (The producer said, That's insane.) It sold 3.5 million copies.

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Wag the Dog

Anne Heche Movies Wag the Dog There was controversy about the writing credits. New Line Cinema wanted David Mamet to be credited as the only screenwriter, even though he actually rewrote Hilary Henkin's original script. The WGA intervened, and both were given credit. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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The Heat

Jessica Chaffin's boobs get their own credit in The Heat. MARK MULLINS BILL BORN DATE CORDDRY EL MULLINS GINA JESSICA CHAFFIN GINA'S BOOBS JESSICA CHAFFIN'S BOOBS JAMIE DENBO BETH MIRIAM TOLAN PATHOLOGIST You gotta give credit where credit's due. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MythBusters

MYTHBUSTERS HAD TO CANCEL AN EPISODE ABOUT HOW HACKABLE CREDIT CARDS ARE 00. Credit Gold OE 6r CRACKEDcO American Express, Discover, and VISA legal co — Source: Adam Savage

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Singin’ in the Rain

A movie about denying credit to performers... denies credit to its performer. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN What d Glorious Feeling CRACKEDCON The movie is abou

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Donald Glover

Childish Gambino' came from a random name generator. To Donald Glover's credit, it was a Wu-Tang name generator SO ... nice. CRACKED.COM

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James Earl Jones

IT WAS JAMES EARL JONES’ FIRST CREDIT AS DARTH VADER.
Jones declined any credit for his work in the original movie. The Holiday Special was the first — Sources: USA Today, Force Material

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Sin CIty

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ SIN CITY THE MOVIE DOES NOT HAVE A WRITING CREDIT. Rodriguez conceived it as a direct translation of Frank Miller's comics, so there's actually no one to give credit to besides Miller himself. CRACKED.COM — Source: Uproxx

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George Lucas

The first to credit the full crew. 1977 George Lucas decided to list every last crew member in the Star Wars final credit crawl. Before that, only dep

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Power Rangers

CRACKED.COM Power Rangers Bulk is a director. Bulk is one of the brainless Team Rocket-esque villains of the show - but Paul Schrier, who plays Bulk, directed some of the episodes. — Source: IMDb

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John Wick

10t HARLEY QUINN BIRDS OF PREY GOT HELP FROM THE DIRECTOR OF JOHN WICK. While director Cathy Yan had a vision for her movie, she was a newbie when it came to action sequences. She brought in stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski to consult when shooting fight scenes. CRACKED.COM — Source: Cinemablend

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Starship Troopers

CRACKED.COM Sex scenes Starship Troopers The director was naked, too. During the shower scenes, director Paul Verhoeven got naked along with the stars to make them feel at ease. Basically, the only time your boss getting naked is a good thing. — Source: Showbiz CheatSheet

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Garry Marshall and Hector Elizondo

Director Garry Marshall demanded in his contract that his friend Hector Elizondo get a role in every film he directed. DAY Elizondo, who had appeared in every single film directed by Marshall, only found out about the contract clause upon the death of the director. CRACKED.COM — 16 Extremely Specific Celebrity Demands

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Fifty Shades of Grey

The Fifty Shades of Grey author fought with the movie's director. We would have proper on-set barneys, said director Sam Taylor-Johnson. The problem? The movie wasn't going to be as explicit as the book. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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Francis Ford-Coppola

FRANCIS FORD-COPPOLA PLAYED A DIRECTOR IN APOCALYPSE NOW CRACKED GOM Coppola appears as a TV news director yelling at Willard to not look at the camera as he's moving through a war-torn coastal village. — YouTube

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Aubrey Plaza

They created April Ludgate after a casting director met Aubrey Plaza. The director called Parks & Rec writer Michael Schur and told him I just met the weirdest girl I've ever met in my life. You have to meet her and put her on your show. So Schur met with — Source: AVClub

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Alfred Hitchcock

Tippi Hedren THE BIRDS CRACKED.COM Visionary director and huge assh*le AIfred Hitchcock promised her they would use mechanical birds... before subject — Source: People

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Wes Craven

A producer insisted on the cheesy ending of Nightmare on Elm Street. So THE DIRECTOR PUT HIM IN FULL BONDAGE GEAR. Writer/director Wes Craven had plan

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Cher

Cher called her 2010 movie Burlesque horrible. RLESQI Terrible director! Really terrible director. And really terrible script. ! remember him saying

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Stranger Things

Mr. Clarke gives middle school students his personal phone number and instructions for building dangerous scientific contraptions late at night. STRAN

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The Dreamboys

What do a late-night host and Dr. Who have in common? BO) 2e SUCE BO) PETER CAPALDI AND CRAIG FERGUSON They were in a punk band together. During the '

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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

Recurring at Late Night Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Created, puppeteered, and voiced by Robert Smigel, Triumph first appeared in 1997on Late Night, and followed Conan to The Tonight Show and his TBS show. Не was nominated for a Best Comedy Album Grammy in 2005. CRACKED — TBS
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The Chris Gethard Show

THE Want a late night TONIGHT talk show SHOW that STARRING JIMMY isn't afraid to FALLON be weird and go off the rails? WATCH HRIS HOMO GETHARD 1 MEOY

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Seth Meyers

Recurring at Late Night Seth Meyers vs. Wally the Cue Card Guy After 30 years of SNL cue cards, Wally Feresten joined Late Night with Seth Myers. Ribbing from Seth snowballed into recurring bits where Wally read creepy poetry or went field reporting. Myers says that fans stop to tell him, We want more Wally! SETH, TO ME YOU ARE PERFECT! CRACKED — NBC
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Benedict Cumberbatch

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH RISKED HIS OWN SAFETY TO PREVENT A ROBBERY. Late one night, the actor saw a bicycle delivery guy surrounded by some men. He stopp

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The Wilton North Report

For only one month in 1987, a late-night show aired on FOX called The Wilton North Report. Though its premise LIVE FROM FOX TELEVISION CENTER 5746 Sun

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Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine LETTERMAN CRACKEDCO Director of Lisa Frank ketamine dream Spring Breakers and famous weirdo Harmony Korine was banned from Late Night w — Source: Collider

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The Masturbating Bear

Recurring at Late Night Conan's Masturbating Bear One of the longest running gags on Conan's Late Night, the Masturbating Bear was created by Brian Reich and performed by Michael Gordon. Check out Who Wants to Marry the Masturbating Bear? CRACKED — NBC
I Was the Masturbating Bear on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’

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Mindy Kaling

Mindy Kaling adopted The Orphanage as her favorite horror film. It's one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. — Source: Variety
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Joan Rivers

JOAN RIVERS dares to take on Carson CRACKED.COM FADE IN: Can we talk? Against all odds, a woman finally conquers the world of late-night talk shows. But will her success come at the expense of friendship with her mentor, the King of Late Night? — joanrivers.com

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

CRACKED TWO FRIENDS, ONE LATE NIGHT, AND A WHOLE LOT OF NINJA TURTLES. In 1983, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird were just two friends goofing around late at night when they came up with the idea of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They were inspired by Frank Miller's Ronin and his work on Daredevil. — Mirage Studios
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Jerry Seinfeld

LESSONS FROM SEINFELD: LAUGHS COME LAST CRACKED CON If you have a long bit, the biggest laugh has to be at the end. For Seinfeld's Pop Tart bit, he ended on: They can never go stale because they were never fresh. — New York Times/YouTube

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Kermit the Frog

GRACKED KERMIT THE FROG ON LATE NIGHT TV. On The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, he said, I just wet your leather here, after being shown a provocative photo of Kylie Minogue. — Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn / Youtube

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Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase once tried his hand at late-night talk. He flopped spectacularly. Chase's early work hosting Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live seemed

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