Johnson may be known for the low-budget comedy routines and booty-shaking music videos that drove the success of BET, the cable channel he founded and that turned him into America's first black billionaire in 2001.

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It's a low-budget comedy about a dysfunctional family's road trip taking a seven-year-old to a beauty pageant.

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The low-budget comedy stars Craig Robinson from "The Office" and Kerry Washington from "Scandal" and was produced but not directed by Mr. Perry, who is best known for the hit "Madea" series.

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There's another film that will probably fall into that realm called "Waitress, " which is a low-budget romantic comedy about waitresses starring Kerri Russell.

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NBC's low-rated critical darling 30 Rock garnered a record-setting 22 nominations for a comedy.

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Naughton, who died in 1992, described the play as a "high comedy in low places" - but he was never completely happy with the finished product.

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As cutesy as any Hollywood romantic comedy and shallower than many, this low-budget production turns the scruffy intimacy and youthful quandaries of independent filmmaking into a trademark.

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