Will Ferrell was born in Irvine, California, the son of Kay (née Overman), a teacher, and Lee Ferrell, a keyboardist for The Righteous Brothers. He has Irish ancestry from County Kerry in Ireland. He first attended elementary school at Turtle Rock Elementary School, and later attended Rancho San Joa

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In 1994 Dennis Potter knew he was going to die. The writer of such television theater masterpieces as "The Singing Detective" and "Pennies from Heaven" had just been diagnosed with untreatable cancer of the liver and pancreas. In a strange move, he agreed to talk with the BBC about his life and immin

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Until the 1980s, British humor stayed largely in the vein of Benny Hill and Monty Python. It was not a good place for women, who generally got laughs by falling out of corsets, bending over in mini-skirts, or fleeing dirty old men. That all changed when Jennifer Saunders arrived on the scene, smearin

Clever, Funny, In-your-face, Profane, Slangy, Witty

Children will sometimes say the darnedest things, and on the Comedy Central's "South Park," children say the crudest, raunchiest, most obscene things imaginable. In fact, the whole town does. This show is obviously the work of warped minds -- its creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker began collabora

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