Rita Rudner Filmography

Born:: Miami, FL
Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter
Biography:: A favorite of the talk show circuit and a rarity in the age of brassy, outspoken female comics, Rita Rudner has a soft-spoken, low-key style that fronts for an incisive wit unmatched by the majority of her contemporaries. A Miami native who had starry-eyed, childhood dreams of dancing under the...Read More

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The Best of Comics Unleashed With Byron Allen

Actors: David Brenner, Margaret Cho, Kim Coles, Dane Cook, Cedric the Entertainer

Synopsis: Byron Allen showcased numerous popular stand-up comedians as host of the program Comics Unleashed. This release compiles some of the best sets recorded on the show including routines by Dane Cook, Howie Mandel, Margaret Cho, Katt Williams, and Brad Garrett. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
Rita Rudner: Live from Las Vegas

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rita Rudner

Synopsis: At one point, stand-up comic and screenwriter Rita Rudner took a regular gig at Harrah's casino in Las Vegas. This release documents her 2,000th performance during that long-lasting and highly successful run. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
The Aristocrats

Synopsis: "A family walks into a talent agent's office..." So begins "The Aristocrats," a joke kept mostly secret by stand-up comedians for decades. An intentionally "bad" joke, the laughs in The Aristocrats aren't in the punch-line (one of the only elements that's the same every time), but in the set-up Read More

7/29/05
Ask Rita [TV Series]

Actors: Rita Rudner

Synopsis: Comedienne/author Rita Rudner was the moderator of this daily, half-hour talk/advice program. On each episode, Rudner and four celebrity panelists -- two male, two female -- responded to viewer mail. The results were aptly described by the hostess as "'Dear Abby' Meets Politically Incorrect." Its Read More

2003
Bitter Jester

Synopsis: On the cusp of stardom, standup comic Maija DiGiorgio suffered an emotional breakdown while performing before a room packed with a number of the comedy industry's head honchos -- whom were on the receiving end of DiGiorgio's obscenity-laced outburst -- at the Aspen Comedy Festival. Subsequently Read More

2003
A Weekend in the Country

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Faith Ford, Christine Lahti, Jack Lemmon, Richard Lewis, Dudley Moore

Synopsis: Rita Rudner was both co-writer and co-star of this multi-plotted romantic comedy, set in a bed and breakfast in the middle of Southern California's wine country. In the course of the film's 90 minutes, a number of curiously matched couples will find true romance -- and sometimes even true Read More

1996
Peter's Friends

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Phyllida Law, Rita Rudner, Imelda Staunton

Synopsis: This comedy drama, a sort of British version of The Big Chill (1983), was directed by Kenneth Branagh. Ten years after they were members of a music and comedy troupe at Cambridge University, a diverse group of friends in their early 30s gather at the expansive estate of Peter Morton (Stephen Fry) Read More

12/25/92
Gleaming the Cube

Actors: Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Min Luong, Art Chudabala, Le Tuan

Synopsis: Gleaming the Cube does for skateboarding what Over the Top did for arm wrestling -- i.e. not a hell of a lot. Christian Slater is the skateboarding star, playing Brian Kelly, a sneering and laconic teen outcast. He feels left out and envious of his adopted Vietnamese brother Vinh's (Art Chudabala) Read More

1/13/89
That's Adequate

Actors: Tony Randall, James Coco, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Ina Balin

Synopsis: Fans of movie industry satire will want to see That's Adequate, an all-star production which spoofs the popular series of documentary films honoring MGM's musical comedies, That's Entertainment. Narrated by Tony Randall, this mock-history chronicles the film output of the second-rate "Adequate Read More

1989
The Wrong Guys

Actors: Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, Richard Belzer, Franklyn Ajaye, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: In this comedy, a group of former Cub Scouts (Louie Anderson, Richard Belzer, and Richard Lewis) get together for a reunion over twenty years later and land themselves in a mess of trouble when a deranged convict (John Goodman) takes them for FBI agents. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

5/13/88