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 ...

Tyler Perry has managed to sculpt an empire around Madea (full name Mabel Earlene Simmons), the no-nonsense matriarch he first portrayed in the 1999 play "I Can Do Bad All By Myself." Madea has a ...

Tyler Perry is one of the most stacked filmmakers of his generation — and one of the most distinct, with his melding of comedy and melodrama. Across a few dozen films, most of which he directed, Perry ...

If there’s one thing we can count on in this crazy, mixed-up world, it’s that Tyler Perry will never stop making Madea movies. Case in point: A new Madea movie, Madea’s Destination Wedding, began ...

Although the Madea franchise is still anathema to critics, this has not stopped its latest movie, Joe’s College Road Trip, from dominating Netflix’s most-watched chart in America this weekend. Tyler ...

If your favorite character from Tyler Perry’s Madea movies was Madea’s rude brother Joe, good news: Joe now has his own spin-off movie, Joe’s College Road Trip, which began streaming on Netflix today.

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