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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cassi Davis-Patton, Tamela Mann, and Diamond White are among the returning cast members. The comedy is now streaming on Netflix.

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 ...

The partnership between Tyler Perry and Netflix continues to bear fruit as Perry's latest film, Madea's Destination Wedding, continues to be a chart-topper days after its premiere. Thanks to its ...

Madea’s Destination Wedding is the latest movie in the Tyler Perry franchise. The ever-busy director and actor has a multi-year, first-look film deal with Netflix, where he has primarily released his ...

New Orleans native Tyler Perry in 'Madea Goes to Jail.' It's a good thing that local fans have the Oscars to occupy them this weekend, because there's going to be precious little fresh material to ...

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 ...