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!

AT THE UNLIKELY intersection of a Douglas Sirk movie, sitcom, trashy romance novel and revival meeting, Tyler Perry has carved out a box office niche of impressive proportions. However unbelievable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Madea’s Family Reunion” Like some real families, there is plenty of drama to keep up with here, including new love, abusive relationships and a troubled teen. “When you go see ‘Madea’s Family Reunion ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tyler Perry talks about his new book, Don't Make A Black Woman Take off her Earrings. Perry became rich and famous as the wisecracking, pistol-packing, advice-dispensing Southern grandmother, Madea.

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 ...