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The Kids in the Hall - The Tea Party

The Tea Party (Had Enough, Toaster?): two destructive guys have a tea party with their lady friend. S2e20

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Vice Principals | 101 | The Principal

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Leslie Jones is a beautiful and talented human being and doesn’t deserve any of the shit she’s getting. no one does. 

please take a minute to send her all the love in the world #LoveForLeslieJ

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Comedians Tell Us About Their Worst Hecklers | VICE | United States

Sometimes the show happens off-stage.

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On My Dad Harold Ramis and Passing the ‘Ghostbusters’ Torch to a New Generation of Fans

I’ve had mixed feelings about the new Ghostbusters since the project was announced back in October 2014, just a few months after my dad, Harold Ramis, died. I was seven years old in 1984 when the original Ghostbusters (GB84) was released. It was huge. To say I was the coolest kid in 3rd grade wouldn't [...]

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The Origin of the Expression "Guess what? Chicken Butt!"

Mark R. asks: Where did the whole kids thing of saying “Guess what?” and answering with “chicken butt!” come from? An appropriate response to nearly any rhetorical playground question from “What’s up?” to “Guess what?”, “chicken butt” has been an important part of the childish lexicon for many decades. The retort’s origins are usually speculated to have come from a [...]

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The Soft Sexism Of Hating On The New GHOSTBUSTERS

You don't have to be sexist to dislike this movie... but it helps!

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The 50 best comedies since 2000

Sixteen years in, our new millennium looks like a banner age for big-screen comedy, as eclectic as any that came before it. This is when Will Ferrell transformed the multiplex into a deliriously Dadaist screaming match; when Edgar Wright and David Wain perfected the art of the spoof, even as the Not

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I have a feeling this will become iconic in due time.  

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I’ve watched this for like a dozen loops and I still crack up every time