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 ...
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, ...