A Veteran of Comedy Rediscovers His Dark Side
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The positive response to Ted Dansonâs dark, layered and vulnerable portrayal of the blue-jeaned, self-obsessed Arthur Frobisher on âDamagesâ has been as much a surprise to him as to television critics and viewers.
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A campus comedy with a dirty mouth and a surprisingly wise mind, âFreshman Orientationâ uses identity politics as a road to romance and emotional maturity.
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It's a dramatic shift, when funny men turn serious. Even Eddie Murphy, the latest of Hollywood's top comic performers to try, has had some laughs over his own transformation, which could bring him an Academy Award.
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Namesake star Kal Penn's blog is getting funnier by the day.
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The twisted truth is that Alan Shore rather merrily blurs the line between appalling and delightful. And as played with devilish sardonic wit and a scheming twinkle in his eye by James Spader
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ÂLetÂs Go to PrisonÂ is a sly, very funny comedy that stays admirably deadpan every time you think itÂs about to veer into gross-out territory.
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Just when it seemed Michael Richards was about to leave the most troubling incident of his career behind, his publicist is having to explain how the comic could consider himself to be Jewish.
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A Fool improves his plan to get out of debt.
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Ben Kingsley plays an aging mobster drying out in John Dahl's delightful comedy
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The actor and head jackass talks about his new film, when stunts go right and why he reaches out to gay audiences
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The film funnyman is trying to rebound from a career slump with a new thriller - and a new spiritual path. Joel Stein peeks into the eternal weirdness of Jim Carrey's mind
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Director Frank Oz's comedy blends refined British humor with knockabout silliness.
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The man who turned the pain of the  Holocaust into a Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book novel has  returned to serious cartooning with a controversial book on the  Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath.
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Larry Shue's deliberately doltish comedy, a downtown hit in the mid-1980's, is a good fit for the eternally open-faced Matthew Broderick.
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Director Frank Oz has made an insanely funny, slightly out-of-control farce that crosses the line just once or twice
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He stars in John Waters&#39;s raunchy &quot;A Dirty Shame&quot; and is known for his MTV stunts. But what he really wants is to be taken seriously as an actor.
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One of America's hottest comics on how he translates sore points into comic relief