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Critics Choice Documentary Awards 2023 Nominees Announced

Having recently accepted the Comedy Person of the Year Award in Montreal, Schumer is headlining the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival Saturday night

Which hitler is the star, i mean that concept alone was brilliant and unprecedented and it really gave you a sense of who mel brooks was as a comic mind. >> i want to thank the academy of arts sciences and money for this wonderful award. >> mel is a giant, maybe the ballsiest of them. >> ill just say whats in my heart. ba bump, ba bump, ba bump. >> but one of the best of them. explosively funny. >> dr. strangelove, do we have anything like that in the works? >> a moment, please, mr. president. >...

Russia, through a series of misunderstandings and actions by certifiably crazy people, almost come to the brink of nuclear war. >> now, then, dimitri, you know how weve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. >> you know, as a comedy person, there was a comedy before "dr. strangelove" and after "dr. strangelove" because no one had seen anything that dry. the satire of it, in order to do it right, you had to do it completely straight. >> of course i like to spe...

>> its not a problem for most people. >> now i need to pay taxes owe than money and figure out how to invest that money and now everybody knows i made that money. i think weve had a very good run and now its time to say good-bye. no hard feelings. >> it actually doesnt really matter to me because the reason i brought you here is to tell you im quitting. im moving to sweden. >> what, no way. >> its a big move. its like, i dont know, sometimes i sit her think am i doing the right thing. its such a...

Like the oil spill to worry about. >> i would say its a subtler thing than that. and i would quote a not to be named anchor person who said these words to me when i asked why after all this time do people who watch your broadcast not know why new orleans flooded? and the answer was very telling to me. the person said, "we just feel that the emotional stories are more compelling for our audience." and thats a pretty damning indictment, it seems to me, that it leaves it up to a comedy person to te...

Bridges and did a great job. think its moniques to lose tonight. shes the one everybody has to try to beat and her transformation from being this comedy person to being like the most hellish mother ever in "precious." that was pretty amazing performance. thank got it wasnt in 3-d. that would have been way too scary. >> roshumba, what do you think? >> of course, i would definitely say monique in this case. vira firmiga went from being basically a victim to a villain in the category. monique was t...