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Monkeybone

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Monkeybone John Turturro, Heartthrob Brendan Fraser, less of a heartthrob Chris Katan. Monkeybone's mashup of zany comedy and Henry Selick extensive budget left the film at a 71 million dollar loss. — Source: The Numbers

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Ivan Bakanov

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM WHEN НЕ CAME TO POWER, ZELENSKY FILLED TOP GOVERNMENT POSTS WITH COMEDY PEOPLE. For example - Ivan Bakanov, the head of Ukraine's domestic intelligence agency, roughly its equivalent of the FBI, was previously the director of Zelensky's comedy studio, Kvartal 95. — Source

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN THE UKRAINIAN MOVIE RZHEVSKIY PROTIV NAPOLEONA, ZELENSKY PLAYED NAPOLEON. The movie (in English, Corporal vs. Napoleon), shows Napoleon during his invasion of Russia. — Source

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Kitty the Teacher

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM KITTY THE TEACHER serie been < 8 Длиц Natu 2- Ai Kitty Kenarban is Malcolm's first teacher in the pilot of the show, then is immediately recast as Stevie's overprotective mother. — Source: Malcolm in the Middle

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Patton Oswalt

COMEDY NERD Patton Oswalt starred in a profoundly unfunny show called Super Nerds. It was kind of supposed to be making fun of nerd culture, but it did that in such a hamfisted way, it comes off as a parody of a parody. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jeff Tremaine

COMEDY NERD Jackass Crew Quotes For the PTSD of filming to subside, it takes three years and eight months. Longtime Jackass director Jeff Tremaine CRACKED.COM — Source

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Seinfeld

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM NUTRIA FUR HAT A LOT CHEAPER THAN SABLE SEASON 8 Just don't get it wet - that can't be good for business. Or anybody.

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Johnny Knoxville

COMEDY NERD Jackass Crew Quotes Snakes are like bulls. They're very cooperative. Johnny Knoxville CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rachel Sennott

COMEDY NERD Rachel Sennott doesn't have a favorite comedian per se - she's into niche TikToks. My favorite comedy right now is niche TikToks. I cannot stop watching TikToks of people with very specific lives, she said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Marc Maron

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM MARC MARON SAYS YOU SHOULDN'T BOTHER WITH ANY KIND OF EDUCATION. Well, for comedy, anyway - - he says that you just have to do it. There's no schooling; the's no anything. Find a place where you can get on stage and do it. — Source

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Top Five

COMEDY NERD Jerry Seinfeld has a cameo in Chris Rock's R-rated comedy Top Five. Seinfeld warns Chris Rock's character Don't get a mistress! Whack off! Even if she finds a live vagina in your pocket, deny it! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tony Snark

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM TONY STARK Doth mother know you weareth her drapes? The OG snarkster, against which all other joke-makers are judged. — Sources for the entries below: Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki

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Nathan Barnatt

COMEDY NERD Nathan Barnatt was supposed to do an Adult Swim comedy, but it didn't work out. It was called Youth Large, and it was going to be based on his character Keith Apicary. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Maria Bamford

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM I've never really thought of myself as depressed as much as paralyzed by hope. Maria Bamford — Laugh Society

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Married... with Children

COMEDY NERD Michael Richards might have been Al Bundy on Married... with Children. The casting director thought he wasn't quite the right fit, but remembered him later for Seinfeld. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Megan Thee Stallion

COMEDY NERD Megan Thee Stallion did a cameo appearance once on the NBC show Good Girls. She played Onyx, one of Stan Hill's co-workers, in Season 3. CRACKED.COM — Source

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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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Karen Chee

COMEDY NERD Karen Chee had a favorite quarantine comedian, and it turns out it was her mom. But I gotta say, the best comedy I've seen in quarantine has been from my mom, she said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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DuckTales

COMEDY NERD DuckTales Last Christmas! episode is a riff on A Christmas Carol. Charmingly, the whole thing opens with Uncle Scrooge pummeling a blow-up Santa Claus. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chris Rock

COMEDY NERD Chris Rock wanted to make a comedy show with Cardi B, but it didn't take off. Не noticed her when she wasn't big yet, and thought she had great talent for comedy- but the show never got picked up. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alien Exodus

BITS AND PIECES FOUND THEIR WAY INTO STAR WARS CANON. Some general details of the novel (like early humans being enslaved by an empire that later fell to a plague) became eventually part of the Expanded Universe (and therefore canon, until the big Disney buyout and ensuing continuity shakeout). GRAGKED.COM — Source: Wookieepedia

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Disney Animation

Disney Remakes Then vs. Now The basics Depending on your definition of canon (and don't even get us started on actual criteria), there are 12 to 20 films that could be considered official remakes. The worst are infamous: Dumbo, Mulan, Lady and the Tramp, The Lion King, Pinocchio. The best? The two gems of the bunch: Cinderella and The Jungle Book. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Wikipedia, Rotten Tomatoes, IndieWire, CBR, Screen Rant
Image Credit: Walt Disney Pictures

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Garfield

Actually, Garfield has some very grim canon. Garfield atis Lives Iustrated sheodt tstorir heood on Gartlald ottor oight BYS JiM DAVIS e NAW IN SPECTAC

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The Cursed Child

On the controversial casting of Noma Dumezweni as Hermione in The Cursed Child play. J.K Rowling said: J.K. Rowling Seguir okrowling Canon: brown eyes

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Hellraiser

Hellraiser Then vs. Now Canon and continuity After the first two films, Kirsty Cotton underwhelmingly returns in the sixth. The original plan, however, was to turn her into a new queen of hell, the franchise's actual baddie. Ultimately, Pinhead's popularity won out, but we're still ignoring the later sequels and going with a hard canon (the first two films) and a soft canon (the first four). CRACKED.COM — In Praise of Shadows/YouTube

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Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones Then vs. Now Canon and continuity Ignoring non-canon works and the pseudo-canon TV show, there is one Indiana Jones continuity. (It bears repeating that 1984's Temple of Doom is a prequel, set one year before the events of Raiders.) In this continuity, Indy makes up with his father, marries Marion Crane, and reconnects with his son. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia, Indiana Jones Wiki

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Steven Universe

April Fools's jokes that became real steven Universe Uncle Grandpa crossover On April Fools' Day, Steven meets up with Uncle Grandpa in a non-canon episode... which later turns out to be canon, as it has a reference to Steven being a diamond (not known then) and being the first time he ever uses his powers on purpose. CRACKED.COM — Source: Steven Universe Wiki

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The Boys

March on prime video March 4 The Boys Presents: Diabolical Some episodes are canon... and one might even be canon to the comic books. Eric Kripke said that while most are multiverse fu**ery, the finale is canon. — Source: Sportskeeda

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The Beach Boys

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We ‘Forgot to Scan’ at Self-Checkout — Source: YouTube

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Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson's lightsaber is unique in more ways than one. Not only did he convince George Lucas to break canon and allow the lightsaber to be pu

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Lifestyle Perfumes

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King Abdullah II of Jordan

King Abdullah II of Jordan appeared in Star Trek. CRACKED.COM King Abdullah is a fan of Star Trek and had a small non-speaking role on Investiga- tions, a 1995 episode of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager. — Who2

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Jean-Luc Picard

Hot Foes Star Trek: The Next Generation Picard vs Q What if God was obsessed with one man? Behold the answer. Star Trek: Picard CRACKED.COM

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William Shatner (Again)

William Shatner has never watched an episode of Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation. CRACKEDCO

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Rosario Dawson

Rosario Dawson is a big Trekkie She even knows a little bit of Klingon. She has said she'll retire if she's ever able to be in both Star Trek and Star Wars. (And, hey, she's halfway there.) CRACKED.COM — Source: SyFy

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Warp Speed

The term was adopted at WARP SPEED STAR TREK CRACKED.COM Though the concept of warps was present in earlier science fiction, Star Trek brought the concept of speed into popular consciousness. It sounds SO much more impressive than super-fast. — Dictionary.com

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William Shatner

SHATNER EVERYBODY STAR TREK SHATNER WOULD PRETEND NOT TO KNOW GEORGE TAKEI ON THE STAR TREK SET AND HAD LONG-RUNNING FEUDS WITH JAMES SCOTTY DOOHAN — Insider

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Star Trek: Beyond

If you like Star TREk: Beyond, thank fan backlash. BEYOND 5TAR TREK Fans were unhappy that Star Trek: Into Darkness felt too much like a Star Wars-typ

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NASA

In honor of Star Trek, NASA's first Space CRAUN Shuttle was named Enterprise. NGA United States Trek fans mailed hundreds of thousands of letters aski

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Marc Bell

STAR TREK HOME THEATER Marc Bell devoted an entire wing of his house to his $1 million Star Trek memorabilia collection, with a USS Enterprise-themed

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