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Gross-out film Gross-out films form a genre of scatological comedy movies in which the producers aim to "gross out" their audience with disgusting and disturbing material, also known as "toilet" humor. Gross-out films often feature jokes about feces, farting, snot, vomit and other bodily functions. Some famous gross-out films include American Pie, Freddy Got Fingered, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Dumb and Dumber, Scary Movie and several John Waters films, such as Pink Flamingos. www.factsandlinks.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Gross-out_film

Gross-out film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gross-out films form a sub-genre of comedy movies in which the producers aim to "gross out" their audience with disgusting and disturbing material, such as sexual or "toilet" humour. Since the 1980s, gross-out films increased in number, and became the norm for comedy films. The first true "gross-out film" was 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House, which was a great success at the box office. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gross-out_film   (201 words)

ipedia.com: There's Something About Mary Article There's Something About Mary, released in 1998 by 20th Century Fox, is a combination of romantic comedy and gross-out film directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly (the Farrelly brothers). This sleeper hit was the third highest grossing movie of 1998—the highest grossing comedy—and it catapulted Stiller into the limelight. There's Something About Mary placed 27th in the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (see the 100 Years Series), a list of the 100 funniest movies of the 20th century. www.ipedia.com /there_s_something_about_mary.html   (364 words)

Gross National Product The Nation's Capital is also the home of Gross National Product, the comedy group which Fodor's has picked as DC's comic monument, who turns this morning's headlines into this evening's punchlines. GNP has been in the political funny business since 1980 with hilarious fast-paced revues such as Man Without A Contra (1987), BushCapades (1988), Clintoons (1992), A Newt World Order (1994), GNP: On The Dole (1996), Hell to the Chief (1997) All the President's Women (1999), and most recently Son of a Bush. The Wall Street Journal calls GNP “...a comedy feast.” And the Washington Post dubbed GNP “...always funny, a brisk merger between Firesign Theater and the original cast of Saturday Night Live... www.selectaspeaker.com /GrossNationalProduct.htm   (364 words)

Everything Nick Berg:Nick Berg Execution Be warned, though: Those expecting a sunny-style There's Something About Mary gross-out comedy will probably be shocked by Berg's take-no-prisoners agenda; this is comedy at its absolute blackest, and no one is spared. In the role that made her a star (and showed the audience a little more skin than she intended), Sharon Stone plays the cleverly manipulative novelist Catherine Tramell who snares San Francisco detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) with her insatiable sexual appetite during the investigation of her boyfriend's murder. Berg, like most actor-turned-directors (this is The Last Seduction star's filmmaking debut) helms the film with a wildly sliding tone and tends to weigh its strengths heavily on its performers. www.siql.com /security/terrorism/Nick_Berg/Nick_Berg_Execution.htm   (4591 words)

News for Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) British actor Colin Firth missed out on the chance to play poet Ted Hughes opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in a new film - because he refused to audition for the part. But she'd just say, 'I'm happy with the way it is.'" Bridget Jones's Diary took 3rd place in the U.S. with a $10.8 million gross, and its $8.4 million gross in the UK gave it not only #1 status for the weekend, but made it one of the best opening weekends on record. The sequel to the 2001 hit Bridget Jones's Diary, starring Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, was originally scheduled to be released on November 19. www.imdb.com /title/tt0243155/news   (12930 words)

Gross National Product - Scandal Tours® is hosted by the critically acclaimed comedy troupe, Gross National Product GNP's topical revues, Scandal Tours® and motivational speaker parody "Are a comedy feast. Group rates are available to GNP's regularly scheduled shows and tours. www.gnpcomedy.com /ScandalTours.html   (12930 words)

Comedy Films Comedies have also been classified in various subgenres, such as romantic comedy, crime/caper comedy, sports comedy, teen or coming-of-age comedy, social-class comedy, military comedy, fish-out-of-water comedy, and gross-out comedy. Comedies usually come in two general formats: comedian-led (with well-timed gags, jokes, or sketches) and situation-comedies that are told within a narrative. Screwball comedies, a sub-genre of romantic comedy films, was predominant from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. www.filmsite.org /comedyfilms.html   (1525 words)

Comedy Films Comedies have also been classified in various subgenres, such as romantic comedy, crime/caper comedy, sports comedy, teen or coming-of-age comedy, social-class comedy, military comedy, fish-out-of-water comedy, and gross-out comedy. Tim Burton's dark and imaginative haunted house comedy Beetlejuice (1988) featured Michael Keaton as the title character in a dream house occupied by newlywed spirits Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin. Screwball comedies, a sub-genre of romantic comedy films, was predominant from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. www.filmsite.org /comedyfilms.html   (1525 words)

Restoration comedy. By Daniel Gross Restoration's need for growth—if you can't turn a profit with 90 stores, the thinking goes, you've got to get bigger—led it to expand into places that were bourgeois but not bohemian: Buford, Ga.; Metairie, La.; Grandville, Miss.; and Kansas City, Mo. It turns out that expensive soaps and towel bars aren't necessarily habit-forming. But Restoration founder Stephen Gordon's presumption that the masses are as interested as he is in high-priced precious accessories, expensive leather chairs, and faux-rotary phones, turned out to be off-base. Restoration Hardware's story begins in 1979, when Gordon was renovating his (natch) Queen Anne Victorian house in Eureka, Calif., and had difficulty finding the right fixtures. www.slate.com /id/2076594   (896 words)

ComedyDict The development in these plays of elements of low comedy is responsible for the modern meaning of farce: a dramatic piece intended to excite laughter and depending lee son plot and character than on improbably situations, the humor arising from gross incongruities, coarse wit, or horseplay. Comedy of Intrigue: A comedy in which the manipulation of the action by one or more characters to their own ends is of more importance than the characters themselves are. Low comedy is not a recognized special type of play as is the COMEDY OF HUMOURS, for example, but may be found either alone or combined with various sorts of both comedy and tragedy. www.dbu.edu /mitchell/comedydi.htm   (3181 words)

California Chess Journal So Gross was a noteworthy figure in the chess world already at the age of twenty, and we freshmen felt honored to have him as a coach. Henry Gross was an active supporter of chess organizations in California at a time when help was needed. Henry won his game from Charles Anglesi in what Kolty called "The Comedy of Errors" in his Chronicle Column. www.chessdryad.com /articles/ccj/art_03.htm   (686 words)

DVDFILE.COM: My Man Godfrey review (At least until the early 1980's when the Zucker Brothers made millions but gave screwball comedy a bad name.) Unfortunately, the golden age of screwball comedy is long gone, (d)evolving into our current fascination with gross-out parodies that many movie viewers under the age of 25 seem to prefer. There are essentially two forms of comedy, situation comedy and screwball comedy. You can write standup and test it out on an audience instantly, but film is a essentially a one shot deal (save preview screenings). www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_3/mymangodfrey.html   (970 words)

Greek Drama Comedy developed away from this primitive display of sex interest in the direction of greater decorum and seriousness, though the Old Comedy was gross in character. The word comedy is based on a word meaning "revel," and early Greek comedy preserved in the actors' costumes evidences of the ancient phallic ceremonies. Greek comedy developed from those phases of the Dionysian rites that dealt with the theme of fertility. aliscot.com /ensenanza/1302/greek_drama.htm   (970 words)

Poop Goes the Weasel - In Along Came Polly, Ben Stiller falls for Jennifer Aniston between trips to the bathroom. By David Edelstein The repressed male upended, forced out of his unnatural rationalism and prudishness by a chaotic female: This is the thrust of the classic romantic screwball comedies; and it's the theme (and variations) of Along Came Polly (Universal), which is like Romantic Screwball Comedy 101 with the addition of gross-out scatological sight—and sound—gags. From the wreckage of his career as a leading man, he's fast becoming one of the premier character actors of his generation, a man whose comfort in his own expanding flesh is a lesson to screwball comedy heroes everywhere. Leland Van Lew's recklessness (leaping off skyscrapers, riding sharks, smashing his yacht into rocks) is obsessive-compulsive bordering on psychotic: No sane insurance executive would give this man a policy, teary life-lessons about learning to see the whole man notwithstanding. slate.msn.com /id/2092179   (945 words)

Comedy Entertainment Available From Summit Comedy After years of working in the Comedy industry, he found that many talent agencies were charging venues a high fee to provide them comedy but the Talent agency would take anywhere from 30-50% of the gross for their own. Every room is different, But the goal is to use comedy to promote your less profitable nights to bring in more revenue to you, and to make your room stand out in the community because of the uniqueness of the promotion. Surveys have proven that less than 10% of the American population has ever been to a comedy club, so with the right promotion, you will be bringing in a new and varied audience that will return to see comedy on a regular basis. www.summitcomedy.com /comedyatyourvenue.htm   (1055 words)

New York Metro: New York Comedy Film Festival 2001 Schedule 4:00: "The Best in Comedy Animation" features cute to outrageously gross animations from Bill Plympton, Eric Brown (CBS' Howard Stern Show) and more. Films will include Who's the Caboose, starring Andy Dick; and Above Freezing, about a man's attempt to please his girlfriend by joining her for dinner at her mother's. In any case the creators of that show, who have also gone on to write for longer-lived shows such as Comedy Central's Daily Show and NBC's Ed, are premiering their short film series Stella, which has been turned into a pilot for VH1. www.newyorkmetro.com /promo/filmfest_comedy.htm   (633 words)

AUSTEN TAYSHUS :: AUSTRALIAN COMEDY SUPERSTAR Totally Out OF Control is a live Stand Up DVD filmed on Austen Tayshus' sell out tour at the Stadium Comedy Bar on January 7th 2005. Austen Tayshus stars here in the hilarious On The Edge, a quintessential Australian road movie in which Austen gives everyone a serve - from his gross out manager to an unsuspecting sheep! Austen Tayshus is known from his Australiana CD, and still holds the record for the biggest selling comedy single in Australia, which went double platinum. www.austentayshus.com /merch.htm   (198 words)

Viacom buys Comedy Central stake from AOL Time Warner - Apr. 22, 2003 The network, one of the few examples of a successful media joint venture, has gained a reputation for continuing to push the limits of what can be broadcast on TV with sharp political satire and increasingly popular gross-out humor. Comedy Central, which reaches 82 million U.S. homes, was launched on April Fool's Day 1991 after Home Box Office, owned by AOL Time Warner, merged its Comedy Channel with MTV Networks' HA! However, Walt Disney Co. (DIS: Research, Estimates) paid a rich premium for Fox Family, as did General Electric Co. (GE: Research, Estimates)-owned NBC for Spanish-language network Telemundo, and arts channel Bravo in separate deals. money.cnn.com /2003/04/22/news/companies/viacom   (553 words)

Like, hey man -- that Terry Gross chick is a bummer MetaFilter Gross pointed out that you could make a bong out of most anything, and all the prosecutor could respond with was "but there are 10,000+ bongs off the street." Terry Gross could not dislodge her nose from Tommy Chong's, er, whatever. Terry gets down to business including the bust and the origins of the comedy duo, more interesting than one would expect. www.metafilter.com /mefi/39372   (1175 words)

Paul Gross Credits / Resume Paul Gross appeared in a guest capacity as Constable Fraser in the "lost" episode of Due South in this farcical half-hour comedy series. Paul co-wrote (with partner David Keeley) the song "Ride Forever," which was featured in the "All the Queen's Horses" episode of Due South as well as on the Due South Soundtrack. Paul Gross and David Keeley sang "Santa Drives a Pickup" on this Canadian sports network special event, which included a celebrity auction to raise funds for the Canadian Special Olympics. home.hiwaay.net /~warydbom/duesouth/paul2.htm   (3814 words)

'Gross Anatomy' Insinuating moniker aside, the movie aims to be a thoughtful dramatic comedy about five dissimilar medical students who learn teamwork while dissecting their cadaver. Christine Lahti, as their dedicated gross anatomy professor, goads the rookies toward their goal. Despite his arrogance and insensitivity to the sick and dying, Joe excites the professor's interest with his quick mind. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/grossanatomypg13kempley_a09fe4.htm   (3814 words)

New York Post Online Edition: movies "Along Came Polly" recycles gags from various, more successful gross-out and romantic comedies, but without any zest or imagination. THE fact that "Along Came Polly" was written and directed by one of the writers of "Meet the Parents" and "Zoolander" might give you hopes of comedy of the same order. On the evidence of this lazy, lackluster film, it seems all too likely that John Hamburg's comic imagination was not the key to either of those Ben Stiller triumphs. www.nypost.com /movies/15346.htm   (3814 words)

Comedy Films Comedies have also been classified in various subgenres, such as romantic comedy, crime/caper comedy, sports comedy, teen or coming-of-age comedy, social-class comedy, military comedy, fish-out-of-water comedy, and gross-out comedy. Screwball comedies, a sub-genre of romantic comedy films, was predominant from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. Comedies usually come in two general formats: comedian-led (with well-timed gags, jokes, or sketches) and situation-comedies that are told within a narrative. www.filmsite.org /comedyfilms.html   (1603 words)

IT Conversations: David Weinberger - Memory Lane They discuss the conventions, both the DNC and RNC, political blogging efforts including those of Dave Winer, Jay Rosen, Matt Gross, Zephyr Teachout among others and Dan Gillmor's excellent chapter on digital democracy in his book, We The Media. His discussion of traditional media and not-so-traditional media leads to high praise for a particularly brilliant political journalist, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show on Comedy Central. David Weinberger, a Harvard Law School Berkman Fellow, is the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, goes to it with Halley on a wide range of subjects when she catches him on vacation in Martha's Vineyard a week before the Republican National Convention. www.itconversations.com /shows/detail196.html   (616 words)

Slings and Arrows - The Movie Network Paul Gross, one of Canada's most popular actors, is internationally known as 'Constable Benton Fraser' on the multi award-winning drama television series Due South, which earned him two Gemini Awards for Best Actor. In feature films, Gross co-wrote, directed and starred in the hugely successful comedy, Men With Brooms and starred in Wilby Wonderful, Paint Cans, Married To It, Whale Music, Aspen Extreme, Cold Comfort, and Buried on Sunday. He received a Dora Award nomination for his performance as Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet' and another Dora Award for Best Performance for his role in the critically acclaimed North American premiere of 'Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme,' which played at Toronto's Canadian Stage. www.themovienetwork.ca /slingsandarrows/actors.php   (188 words)

Trahair on King/Comedy Gross-out, in this sense, is comedy which responds to the troubled teenager's need to master once again the animal that lies within. He questions, for example, whether comedy subverts narrative, diminishes the impact of horror, deactivates the political, and so forth, when he makes it very clear at the outset that he doesn't think it is possible to account for comedy in terms of universals. Gunning, Tom, 'Crazy Machines in the Garden of the Forking Paths: Mischief Gags and the Origins of American Film Comedy', in Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins, eds, _Classical Hollywood Comedy_ (New York: Routledge, 1995). www.film-philosophy.com /vol8-2004/n15trahair   (188 words)

DreamWorks' 'Shrek 2' Becomes the Top-Grossing Animated Film in History That's because the film doing the pushing is its sequel, DreamWorks Pictures' computer-animated comedy "Shrek 2," which has become the top-grossing animated film in history (domestically) with a cumulative domestic box office gross of $346.5 million as of Saturday, June 12. We have celebrated every record, but this latest hurdle -- to become the top-grossing animated film in history -- is something we hardly even imagined. The film crossed the previous record of $339.8 million on June 12, only its 25th day in release. www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-13-2004/0002192057&EDATE=   (503 words)

Film & TV: Gross Receipts (Weekly Alibi . 05-29-00) In order to assist our readers in figuring out where and when to dump their moviegoing money during this long, hot summer, we've compiled our annual guide to all the major releases hitting theaters between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Hollywood ran out of ideas 16 months ago, so this movie is actually based on a 1997 article from GQ magazine. Since it is a teen-oriented romantic comedy, this film is required to star Freddy Prinze Jr. weeklywire.com /ww/05-29-00/alibi_feat.html   (2555 words)

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