To hear him tell it, Derek Luke was dying for the chance to take on his first-ever comedy. And the fact that it was a Tyler Perry farce, with Perry in drag and his character, Madea, in all her glory, ...

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 ...

When we last saw Tyler Perry’s signature character — the bosomy, blunt-smoking, Glock-yielding Georgia granny — she and her brother, Joe (also Perry), were being pulled over by the po-po in a cameo in ...