For 20 years, Tyler Perry’s Madea has delivered laughs, tough love and some valuable life lessons in between. Madea, short for Mabel Simmons, is the no-filter grandmother figure fans have grown to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighteen years ago, Tyler Perry brought his DIY play to the big screen. Released in 2005, “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” chronicles ...

Mabel "Madea" Simmons is a character created and portrayed by Tyler Perry. The character is a tough elderly black woman. Madea has appeared in several plays directed by, written by, and starring Tyler ...

Sticking to the successful formula that fueled his "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," multihyphenate Tyler Perry offers another blithely unbalanced mix of low comedy, sudsy sentiment and spiritual uplift ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... How do you solve a problem like Madea? How do you catch a cliché and pin her down? How do you find a word that means Madea? A flibbertijibbet! A stereotype!

These are clearly break-out times for writer-actor-comedian-singer Tyler Perry. A lot of the thanks must go to his female alter-ego, Mabel “Madea” Simmons, who Perry originated on the stage, then ...

Let's get this straight, first. No one should go to a Tyler Perry movie -- including "Madea's Family Reunion," just released yesterday -- looking for complex story lines, layered characters or ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Tyler Perry says “A Madea Family Funeral” is the final film for his rambunctious female alter ego.Lions Gate/Everett ...

Tyler Perry is pulling triple duty once again for the newest addition to his "Madea" franchise, and he's bringing the whole family with him. It's been a minute since we've seen Madea on our screens.

Scene 1: Madea, a huge grandmother, bounces onto the stage, a tempest towering over other actors, instantly stealing the scene, the star of her own show. In this play, Madea wears black cat-eye ...

Sticking to the successful formula that fueled his "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," multihyphenate Tyler Perry offers another blithely unbalanced mix of low comedy, sudsy sentiment and spiritual uplift ...