Long before The Office, Parks and Recreation, and Modern Family turned the mockumentary into a sitcom staple, Christopher Guest cornered the genre on the silver screen. With comedy classics like Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, This is Spinal Tap, and A Mighty Wind under his belt, it’s no surprise that Guest decided to bring his brand of entertainment to television.

With Family Tree, Guest and co-writer/creator Jim Piddock have taken his classic formula and squeezed it down to a thirty-minute episode format for HBO, turning it into a clever semi-improvised comedy following that single-ca...

To say Chris O'Dowd enjoyed filming a video campaign with beautiful topless women is an understatement. Actor Chris O'Dowd has filmed a comedy video with a group of topless female trampolinists in support of the Male Cancer Awareness Campaign.

The Bridesmaids star shot the spoof with a bevy of beauties bouncing on trampolines in the role of Lars, the health and safety officer at the fictional Topless Female Trampolining World Championships.

The video aims to raise awareness of male breast cancer and organizers hope it will attract millions of online viewers.

O'Dowd tells British newspape...

Bridesmaids star Chris O'Dowd has undergone surgery on his knee.

The Irish funnyman checked in to hospital on Wednesday (21Mar12) and took to his Twitter.com blog before his operation to joke about the treatment with fans.

He wrote, "Thanks for the good wishes re. Operation. Don't worry, nothing serious, just a follow-up on my d**k reduction. #DodgyKneeCartlidge".

The surgery was a success and O'Dowd later updated his followers by posting, "I'm alive! Thank the lord I'm alive!"

New movies coming to theaters this week include the highly anticipated John Carter - the film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1912 story "A Princess of Mars", the first tale from his epic science fiction series "John Carter of Mars"; the familiar-looking Eddie Murphy comedy A Thousand Words; the outrageous idea of fishing in the desert in Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. Another thriller, Silent House and the formulaic rom-com Friends With Kids round out this list of movies opening March 9, 2012.

PICK OF THE WEEK: John Carter

JOHN CARTER

Civil War veteran John Carter (Taylor Kits...