Tyler Perry Is Retiring Madea After One More Movie, 'Family Funeral' Geoffrey Owens Takes Tyler Perry's Job Offer on 'The Have and the Have Nots' Tyler Perry's New Movie Title Was a Top Dictionary ...

With his creation Mabel “Madea” Simmons, here starring in her seventh film, Tyler Perry has built a franchise around barking disciplinarian, commonsense solutions to societal ills—and being that Madea ...

With his creation Mabel “Madea” Simmons, here starring in her seventh film, Tyler Perry has built a franchise around barking disciplinarian, commonsense solutions to societal ills — and being that ...

When ESSENCE.com caught up with Tyler Perry this week, he was in the middle of promoting his latest movie, Madea’s Witness Protection, wrapping up his next movie The Marriage Counselor (while fending ...

Tyler Perry as Madea in 'Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection'.jpg Tyler Perry as Madea in 'Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection' (KC Bailey / Lionsgate) Tyler Perry's cantankerous, criminally ...

At the Tyler Perry brand has grown financially and in popularity, one would hope that the multi-talented showman would attempt to finesse his craft and push his creativity to higher levels. Instead, ...

Mabel "Madea" Simmons is a character created and portrayed by Tyler Perry. The character is a tough elderly black woman. Madea has appeared in several plays directed by, written by, and starring Tyler ...

For many, especially black people who see in her a mockery of our own grandmothers, Tyler Perry’s Madea is little more than a mammy—an insult to the matriarchal community figure that Perry claims to ...

Tyler Perry‘s most famous character, Madea, has appeared in nearly half the director’s films: a gun-toting, “Hallelu-yer”-shouting force of nature, and an outrageous drag tribute to his mother and ...

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 ...

It didn’t help that I watched this in a cinema with no air-conditioning – but aircon was the least of my worries. Tyler Perry continues to make his new-skool Ernest films, with similar titles to ...