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The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner movie is a collection of animated shorts featuring the title characters as well as Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Marvin the Martian, Pepe le Pew, and others and interspersed with scenes of Bugs Bunny reminiscing about his film career.

A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the once voted worst movie director of all time.

Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt hotel in Florida, where he will try anything to make money.

As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.

Crime/comedy thriller featuring Nick Charles, private eye, and his wife Nora. The plot unfolds at Christmas when an eccentric inventor disappears after threatening his mistress with a lawsuit for embezzlement.

When a wily, witty, lying, lazy, cheating slave discovers that his master's son is in love with the girl next door, a virgin courtesan, he promises to help win her heart in exchange for his freedom. But the road to romance is blocked with stunning surprises, cunning disguises and the wildest chariot race ever!

Native American comedian Charlie Hill talks about his life and career. Includes clips from his performances and commentary by Vine Deloria, Dennis Banks, Dick Gregory, Steve Allen, and others.

A stand-up comedy performance by comedian Margaret Cho.

Comedy veterans, Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza, use their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke. The joke is an old burlesque routine too extreme to be performed in public. It's called The Aristocrats.

A collection of Buster Keaton's 19 classic silent short comedy films.

he Little Tramp searches for gold and love in the Klondike.

The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. He plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success.

A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.

van Cavalli brings his new wife Wanda to Rome on the least romantic honeymoon in history--a rigid schedule of family meetings and an audience with the Pope. But Wanda, dreaming of the dashing hero of a photo-strip cartoon, drifts off in search of the White Sheik, thus setting off a slapstick comedy.

An eccentric comedy about a modest Russian worker who starts a heroic combat against the gang of smugglers.