Friars Club Comedy Film Festival 2009

When a lonely teenage girl buys a mysterious and magic insect on eBay, her perspective on life changes immediately - just not in the way she had hoped. Her jock neighbor, simultaneously pulled into the same mess by the bug’s bite, becomes her only ally and together they have to figure out a way to get things back to normal - quickly! A fantastical love story about a geeky girl, a lucky boy...and a beetle.

A Literature professor (Cedric The Entertainer) sends his unruly student Will (Owen Benjamin) to work at a Renaissance Fair for the summer. There, Will encounters all sorts of characters, including the Queen of the Fair (Ann-Margaret) and the beguiling Kate (Christina Ricci), an actress honing her skills in the fair's theater compan y. Romance and ye-old hijinks ensue.

"Former Friar Groucho Marx stars as Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, who, along with his fellow madcap masters of mayhem, the Marx Brothers, are at it again in this zany laughfest. When a valuable painting turns up missing at a party, Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo help find it--with outrageous results."

Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to create the greatest goat cheese the world has ever known, and reclaim the heart of his beloved Angie. A felonious German baker, a grave-digging hermit, and a tiny white goat color this journey of love, destiny and dairy products.

"Former Friar W.C. Fields stars in this raucous masterpiece as "Egbert Souse," lowly bank guard, unlikely hero, and manic driver in perhaps the greatest slapstick car-chase scene ever filmed."

A satire look into the world's most famous Bible stories.

Answering the door on Halloween, Kari realizes that the trick-or-treating 'ghost kid' may actually be supernatural.

Have you ever thought a ethnic joke went a bit too far in a comedy club and found yourself looking around to see if you were the only one embarrassed? The explosion of comedy as a form of entertainment in today's quick paced, internet savvy world has opened doors for many comedians. It has also perpetuated stereotypes beyond back room parlors and locker rooms. Cean Mic is an entertaining, thought provoking journey into the realities facing ethnic comedians performing in American comedy clubs. This funny, behind the scenes portrait reveals the complexities of performing for a 24 hour, entertainment hungry society which often encourages stereotypes in stand up comedy. The film follows Washington DC and New York comedians as they attempt to perform Clean Comedy in an unclean world. Saturday Night Live veteran Dean Edwards and Don Imus Co-host Karith Foster keep the jokes coming with their non-traditional take on Urban Comedy. Social comedy icons Dick Gregory and Paul Mooney reflect on their own personal observations and experiences in stand up comedy.