Certain comedians prompt certain audience expectations. Bill Murray is always supposed to be the endearingly aloof cool guy in a sea of quirk. Will Ferrell is the dumb, quick-tempered man child who’s ...

"The 40-Year-Old Virgin" almost didn't happen, but it was a good thing it did, because it helped launch the careers of Hollywood A-listers like Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, and Steve Carell. In a recent ...

Because comedy is a genre most subject to individual preference and whim, reviewing funny movies is often a critic's biggest challenge. How does one qualify what he or she thinks is funny about a film ...

There comes a time in our lives when a comedy arrives in theaters that is so iconic, you can’t help but love it years later and want everyone you know to watch it as well. For me, that was The 40-Year ...

Steve Carrell wrote and starred in the Judd Apatow comedy. Credit: Alamy Better was its decision to present viewers with a new kind of male protagonist: a mature virgin, one who doesn’t feel starved ...

With a name like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” a movie could go either way: It could score, or it could strike out.The film scores. (I won’t tell you what happens to Andy, the 40-year-old virgin.)The ...

Judd Apatow's The 40-Year-Old Virgin stars Steve Carell as an aging electronics store worker desperate to finally score. The raunchy romantic comedy hit theaters on Aug. 19, 2005. The star-studded ...