From the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to today stand-up comedians, talk-show hosts, sketch performers, television animators and other entertainers have used often-controversial jokes to unite and heal in the face of tragedy.
Casts Gilbert Gottfried, Doug Stanhope, Janeane Garofalo, David Cross, Marc Maron, Cedric the Entertainer, Nathan Lane, Rob Riggle, Matthew Broderick, Michael Schur
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Bad Grandmas
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wild
A Man Departed
Atlanta
FINED
Bomb Scared
M*A*S*H
YOYO
Brazil
Mars Attacks!
Ari Shaffir: JEW
Death at a Funeral
Buffalo Soldiers
Death to Smoochy
Problem Child
The Ref
Saving Silverman
The Return of the Living Dead
Brigi: El poder de la red
Ravenous
SIMILAR MOVIES
Bad Grandmas
IMDB 5 | Nov , 2017
Four grandmothers accidentally kill a conman and, to cover it up, they get rid of the body. When the conman's partner shows up, things go south.Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wild
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2016
Last week, Andrew was that guy with his girl lunching in KFC, discussing apartments and making plans for the future. Today he’s in Moscow, in an undisclosed hotel room, on the run and at risk of assassination. Last week, a nobody. This week, America’s Most Wanted: a man who humiliated his country with one touch of a button. Mike Bartlett’s darkly comic new play explores the unexpected, bewildering, and life-changing consequences of challenging the status quo at a global level. As the State grows more powerful because of technology, and technology grows more powerful because of the State, where do the self-appointed protectors of the rights of the citizen stand? Heroes? Or traitors?A Man Departed
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2021
On the day of his wife's funeral, a widower can't catch a break.Atlanta
IMDB 4.3 | Jul , 1996
A 12 year-old Olympic swimmer and her mother (both played by July) speak to the public about “going for the gold”.FINED
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2026
A self-righteous traffic warden in Manchester becomes obsessed with ticketing an illegally parked car, only to learn its owner died. Forced to confront his own ruthlessness at the funeral, he must decide whether to uphold the law or salvage his humanity.Bomb Scared
IMDB 5.5 | Dec , 2017
Somewhere in Spain, four ETA terrorists await a phone call before carrying out a mission, while the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where Spanish soccer team is one of the favorites to win, is being held in South Africa.M*A*S*H
IMDB 7 | Feb , 1970
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.YOYO
IMDB 5 | Mar , 2017
Caroline can't stand that she is a virgin...and then the world ends. In post-apocalyptic LA, after a dust storm has wiped out the planet, she is convinced that Francis was sent as the man to pop her cherry. YOYO is a heartfelt, dark comedy about finding meaning in life, even when life ceases to exist.Brazil
IMDB 7.7 | Feb , 1985
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.Mars Attacks!
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1996
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.Ari Shaffir: JEW
IMDB 8.2 | Nov , 2022
In ‘Jew,’ comic Ari Shaffir delivers a raunchy love letter to the religion he says he left behind.Death at a Funeral
IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 2007
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.Buffalo Soldiers
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 2002
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.Death to Smoochy
IMDB 5.9 | Mar , 2002
Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuchsia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame - scoring hit ratings and the affections of a network executive - Randolph makes the unsuspecting rhino the target of his numerous outrageous attempts to exact revenge and reclaim his status as America's sweetheart.Problem Child
IMDB 6.2 | Jul , 1990
Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares.The Ref
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1994
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.Saving Silverman
IMDB 5.7 | Feb , 2001
A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.The Return of the Living Dead
IMDB 7.2 | Apr , 1985
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.Brigi: El poder de la red
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2018
Short film that tells the story of two peculiar kidnappers who arrive at a hut with bad reception.Ravenous
IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 1999
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.