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Cringe comedy

Cringe comedy, also called cringe humor, is a TV and film comedy genre evoking amusement plus vicarious embarrassment, exemplified by The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Peep Show, and Nathan for You, typically in mockumentary form.

Cringe culture

Cringe culture is the online practice of collecting and mocking embarrassing behavior via compilations, subreddits like r/cringe, and the label "cringe"; peaked late 2010s, persists as a social judgment shaping Gen Z self-presentation.

Crippled Avengers (残缺)

Crippled Avengers (殘缺), aka Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms, is a 1978 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Chang Cheh, starring the Venom Mob as crippled fighters trained for revenge.

Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things

Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things, Game of Thrones season 1 episode 4 (HBO, May 8, 2011), written by Bryan Cogman, directed by Brian Kirk; titled from Tyrion Lannister's line and centered on Bran, Jon, Tyrion, and Gendry.

Cris Judd

Cris Judd (Cristan Leenon Judd, born 1969) is an American dancer, choreographer, and actor who toured with Michael Jackson, married Jennifer Lopez from 2001 to 2002, and won I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here in 2003.

Crisis (2021 film)

Crisis (2021), also released as Dreamland, is a drama-thriller written and directed by Nicholas Jarecki, starring Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, and Evangeline Lilly in three interwoven opioid-epidemic stories; it grossed $1,099,426 worldwide.

Crisis actor

Crisis actor: a person hired to play victims or witnesses in emergency drills and mass-casualty training (industry term: role player); also a conspiracy-theory label falsely applied to real shooting victims since Sandy Hook in 2012.

Crisis in Six Scenes

Crisis in Six Scenes is a 2016 six-episode Amazon Prime Video comedy miniseries written, directed by, and starring Woody Allen, with Elaine May, Miley Cyrus, John Magaro, and Rachel Brosnahan, set in a late-1960s Connecticut suburb.

Crisis on Earth-X

Crisis on Earth-X is the fourth annual Arrowverse crossover (2017), a four-part story across Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow in which heroes fight Nazi doppelgangers from Earth-X, a world where the Nazis won World War II.

Crisis on Infinite Earths (Arrowverse)

Crisis on Infinite Earths (Arrowverse): five-hour 2019–2020 CW crossover across Supergirl, Batwoman, The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow, adapting the 1985 DC comic, merging the multiverse into Earth-Prime, and killing Oliver Queen.

Crispin Bonham-Carter

Crispin Bonham-Carter (born 1969, Colchester, Essex) is an English actor and theater director, third cousin of Helena Bonham Carter, best known as Mr Bingley in the BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice; since 2007 he has been a teacher and school leader in London.

Crispin Freeman

Crispin Freeman (born 1972, Chicago) is an American voice actor known for Alucard in Hellsing, Kyon in Haruhi Suzumiya, Itachi in Naruto, and Winston in Overwatch, plus his Voice Acting Mastery podcast.

Crispin Glover

Crispin Hellion Glover (born 1964) is an American actor, filmmaker, and publisher known for George McFly in Back to the Future, Willard, and Charlie's Angels, and for touring his self-directed It trilogy personally rather than releasing them to streaming.

Criss Angel

Criss Angel (Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos, born 1967) is an American illusionist from East Meadow, New York, star of A&E's Mindfreak (2005-2010) and Las Vegas residencies Believe, Mindfreak Live!, and MINDFREAK at Planet Hollywood.

Criss Cross

Criss Cross (1949) is a Robert Siodmak film noir starring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, and Dan Duryea, based on Don Tracy's novel, about an armored-car driver drawn into a fatal heist by his ex-wife; remade as The Underneath (1995).

Crissy Moran

Crissy Moran (Christina McMillan, born 1975, Jacksonville, Florida) is an American former adult film actress and model who retired in October 2006 to become a Christian, now works with Treasures Ministries, and appeared in Oversold and After Porn Ends.

Crissy Rock

Crissy Rock, stage name of Christine Murray (born 1958, Liverpool), is an English actress, stand-up comedian, and author, known for Maggie Conlan in Ladybird, Ladybird (Berlin Best Actress) and Janey York in Benidorm.

Cristela

Cristela is an ABC sitcom (2014–2015, 22 episodes) created by and starring comedian Cristela Alonzo, the first Latina to create, write, produce, and star in her own network show; canceled after one season.

Cristela Alonzo

Cristela Alonzo (born 1979, San Juan, Texas) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and producer, the first Latina to create, produce, write, and star in a network sitcom, Cristela (ABC, 2014-2015), and first Latina Pixar lead, Cruz Ramirez in Cars 3, with Netflix specials Lower, Middle, and Upper Classy.

Cristin Milioti

Cristin Milioti (born 1985) is an American actor and singer known for Girl in Broadway's Once, the Mother in How I Met Your Mother, Palm Springs, Black Mirror, and her Emmy-winning Sofia Falcone in HBO's The Penguin.

Cristina Ferrare

Cristina Ferrare (born 1950, Cleveland) is an American TV host, former supermodel, and New York Times bestselling author, known for AM Los Angeles, The Home Show, Home & Family, and her cookbooks; not the Italian fashion designer of the same name.

Cristina Vee

Cristina Vee (Cristina Danielle Valenzuela, born 1987) is an American voice actress, voice director, and singer known for Marinette/Ladybug in Miraculous, Homura Akemi in Madoka Magica, Velvet Crowe in Tales of Berseria, and Arknights songs.

Cristina Yang

Cristina Yang is a fictional cardiothoracic surgeon on Grey's Anatomy, played by Sandra Oh in seasons 1-10 (2005-2014). Known as Meredith Grey's "person," she left for Zurich in the 2014 finale and Oh has declined to return.

Cristine Reyes

Cristine Reyes (Ara Christine Pascual Klenk, born 1989), Filipino actress also nicknamed AA, StarStruck 2003 alumna, known for UnTrue, The Kingdom, No Other Woman; 2020 Fantasporto Best Actress winner.

Cristo Fernández

Cristo Fernández (Cristóbal Fernández, born 1991, Guadalajara) is a Mexican actor known as Dani Rojas on Ted Lasso, who signed with El Paso Locomotive FC of the USL Championship in 2026.

Criterion Closet

The Criterion Closet is a room of nearly two thousand films at the Criterion Collection's New York offices, the setting for its popular Closet Picks video series.

Critical Role

Critical Role: American actual play web series and creator-owned media company in which voice actors including Matthew Mercer, Laura Bailey, and Liam O'Brien play Dungeons & Dragons; first aired March 12, 2015, spawned The Legend of Vox Machina, Darrington Press, and Daggerheart.

Critical Role campaign four

Critical Role Campaign Four (premiered October 2, 2025) is the actual-play series' fourth campaign: set in Aramán, not Exandria, GM'd by Brennan Lee Mulligan with 13 players, D&D 2024 rules, West Marches tables (Soldiers, Seekers, Schemers), on Beacon, YouTube, and Twitch.

Critical Thinking (film)

Critical Thinking is a 2020 American biographical drama, John Leguizamo's directorial debut, written by Dito Montiel, about the 1998 Miami Jackson High School chess team, the first inner-city team to win the U.S. National Chess Championship; released September 4, 2020 by Vertical Entertainment.

Criticism of Walt Disney Animation Studios

Criticism of Walt Disney Animation Studios: scholarly and popular critiques of the Burbank studio covering the 1941 animators' strike, Song of the South and racial stereotyping, gender portrayals, formulaic storytelling, labor cuts, and copyright and AI litigation.