The Urban Daily decided to round up some celebrity flying horror stories. The reasons range from the asinine to racial. Buckle your seat belt as we take to the not so friendly skies.

Kevin Smith

The writer/director from New Jersey has always played the portly side kick in 90s suburban classics like Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Southwest Airlines wasn’t in agreement with the extra weight Smith was carrying with him and asked him to exit a 2010 flight because he violated the company’s “customers of size” policy, which is a nice way of saying if you’re fat, buy two seats.

Naomi Campbell

Is anybody surprised to find the British supermodel on a list of people who got kicked off a plane? She can’t find a good assistant anymore because nobody wants to get busted in the head with a cell phone. Naomi Campbell’s 2008 plane altercation involved airline staff and London police officers. Campbell was handcuffed for abusing a flight stewardess and  spitting on a cop. The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

Michael Colyar

The name Michael Colyar might be unfamiliar. You probably know him as “hey, that’s that guy from that movie.” A few months ago, United Airlines referred to him as “Hostile Customer on Flight #UA382.” Colyar maintains he was treated like a felon for refusing to move his bag from an overhead storage space to accommodate a late arriving white passenger. Colyar took the  internet to blast the air company. In the most scathing of statements, the actor wrote, “If “Don’t ask questions, just throw the n****r off the plane” is the post 9-11 policy than black folks should seek out other airlines.” He ain’t never lied!

Leisha Hailey

The actress best known for her role on the Showtime hit series, The ‘L’ Word, alleges she was kicked off a Southwest airlines flight for kissing her girlfriend. Being of the digital age, Hailey took to her Twitter to call for a boycott of the airline. The actress tweeted, “Since when is showing affection to someone you love illegal?” Southwest Airlines replied with a statement saying, “Initial reports indicate that we received several passenger complaints characterizing the behavior as excessive. Our crew, responsible for the comfort of all Customers on board, approached the passengers based solely on behavior and not gender.” Somebody is lying . Who do you think it is?

Mo’Nique

The actress/comedian has often been praised for her warm and M.I.A. when she got into an argument with a flight attendant over-of all things- a hair dryer. United Airlines had the Oscar winner tossed off for verbally abusing the airline staff. Mo’Nique later blamed the 2006 incident on racism. She released a statement communicating, “I felt like I was being treated like an animal. This happens to black people all the time, and they don’t have a voice. It was humiliating.”A United Airlines rep repsonded by trying to sweep the issue under the rug. Their response to Mo’Nique was, “We regret Ms. Imes-Hicks felt in any way that she was not treated with courtesy and respect. There was a confrontation involving a customer that caused the flight to be delayed. When a situation occurs on a flight that causes a delay, or disruption, we must act in the best interest of all our customers.” Sounds like a backwards a** apology to me.

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What do you think? Do you agree with Ms. Hughe’s assessment of Black portrayals in Hollywood? Let us know in the comments!

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1. Oprah Winfrey
Initially The Oprah Winfrey Show was just another talk show when it debuted in 1986. But what made it stand out and rise above the rest was the show’s host. Now The Oprah Winfrey Show is only a small part of Oprah’s empire, and in 2011, will cease to exist in its current format. But not because the show is cancelled, Oprah is moving onto something bigger than her own show. She’s starting her own network, appropriately called OWN.

2. Arsenio Hall
The Arsenio Hall Show revolutionized late night television. Just ask Bill Clinton who many say would have never won the 1992 presidential election had it not been for his surprise appearance on that show.

3. Mo’Nique
Unlike Arsenio, The Mo’Nique Show has a lot more competition in that late night slot. But the Oscar-winning comedienne has been able to hold her own against, pulling in her own unique audience on BET. While the rest of America was tuning into the drama of the late night talk show wars between Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno, plenty others tuned them out and tuned into Mo’Nique.

4. Tyra Banks
A show about service as much as it was celebrity, through The Tyra Show, Tyra used her beauty and brains for good. What Oprah is to the stay-at-home moms of America, Tyra was to the teenagers of America who came home after school and needed a big sister to understand them.

5. Wendy Williams
The popular radio DJ has successfully taken her format and gift of gossip to the small screen. Though Vh1 would air her radio show, The Wendy Williams Show has shown the queen of talk radio can also sit down on a couple of comfortable couch chairs and ask questions with the best of them.

6. Whoopi Goldberg

The moderator of The View is fearless and isn’t afraid to call it like she sees it. And if someone else is calling it like she sees it on the show, she’s not afraid to retort or even walk away.

7. Montell Williams
As a former Marine, and a victim to multiple scoliosis, Williams — an Emmy Award winning talk show host — used his show as a platform to bring awareness to various social issues in an aggressive style.

8. Star Jones
The controversial panel member on The View during it’s early years was one of the sharpest and most entertaining women on the panel.

9. Tavis Smiley
Many people were shocked when BET let Tavis Smiley’s contract as host of BET Tonight expire, but the charming media personality has landed on his feet. Now the host of his very own PBS show, Tavis Smiley, Smiley is doing what he does best, interviewing the people we’ve always wanted to talk to ourselves, asking them the questions we’ve always wanted to ask.

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Monique asked where did she get her dance moves from and it turns out Ciara’s mother and grandmother  taught her some of her freaky gyrations. They were in the audience watching.

I’m just glad she didn’t wear an Atlanta fitted hat…

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In this segment she talks about the myth of her power over men. Don’t look directly into her eyes!

According to him, any child would think that someone taller and bigger is a monster. Monique was 7 years old when the molestations occurred. Gerald doesn’t go into detail about the acts and I’m sure no one would want to picture that, but he does admit that he is sorry. He wants to rebuild the relationship with his family and sister.

I leave you with this, should he be given that chance, should Monique forgive him?

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She beat out Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Penelope Cruz, as she did at the Golden Globes.

“I would like to thank the Academy for proving that it can be about the performance and not the politics, ” she said at the podium before thanking the cast and her husband. “To my amazing husband, Sidney — thank you for showing me that sometimes you have to forego doing what’s popular, in order to do what’s right.”

This was Mo’Nique’s first Oscar nomination and she joins a small sorority of Black women who have won Oscars. Hattie McDaniel claimed best supporting actress in 1939′s “Gone with the Wind,” Whoopi Goldberg won best supporting actress for 1990′s “Ghost,” Halle Berry took best actress for 2001′s “Monster’s Ball” and Jennifer Hudson got best supporting actress for 2006′s “Dreamgirls.”

(props to MrWorldPremiere)

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With nine nominations each, “Avatar” and “The Hurt Locker” led the pack as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences opened up its best picture Oscar race to 10 nominees for the first time since 1943.

Nominated for best picture are: The blockbuster “Avatar,” the morally uplifting “The Blind Side,” the femme-centric coming-of-age-tale, “An Education,” the Iraq-set “The Hurt Locker,” the South African sci-fi tale “District 9″ revisionist World War II tale “Inglourious Basterds,” the dysfunctional family drama “Precious,” modern-day Job story “A Serious Man,” the animated “Up” and the high-flying look at a downsizing America, “Up in the Air.”

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With the unveiling of nominations for the 82nd annual Academy Awards on Tuesday morning, Meryl Streep earned her 16th Oscar nomination for whipping up a mean omelet in “Julie & Julia,” while Sandra Bullock captured her first nom for playing a suburban mom who takes a homeless teen into her home in “Blind.”

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Also nominated for best actress are Helen Mirren, who fights for control of her husband Leo Tolstoy’s legacy in “The Last Station”; Carey Mulligan, who plays a British school girl eager to taste life in “An Education”; and Gabourey Sidibe, who is seen as an abused inner-city teen in “Precious.”

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“You could put vegetable up there, you could use it in the morning.” This is great. You can’t use it to cook crack even though Jadakiss was “the first nigga to cook crack on a Foreman Grill.” I can’t think of any good Raekwon grill jokes right now but I’m sure y’all can. I’ll post the best joke as the headline.

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“…watch a flick, illin and root for the villain..” – Nas, “One Time For Ya Mind”

As likable as the good guys are in movies  (we see you Will Smith) there is something about a badass that keeps us lined up at the box office quoting them long after the credits roll. Just think about who is more memorable: Tupac’s Bishop from Juice or his Lucky character from Poetic Justice? Thought so.

Not only is it more fun to play the bad guy in a movie, it seems to pay more dividends. Monique has won a Golden Globe for her role in Precious as the abusive mother, Mary, and Denzel won his first Best Actor Oscar playing a villain in Training Day.  The last time a Black actor won an award for being nice on screen was Jennifer Hudson winning Best Supporting Actress for  Dream Girls (2006), Jamie Foxx for Ray and Morgan Freeman for Million Dollar Baby in 2004.  While I’m sure many of you reading this can quote the crooked cop Alonzo line for line, I doubt most folks can remember one thing that “Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris” said in that boxing gym.

So here is our salute to those characters that were so good at being bad.

Bishop, Juice

Played by: Tupac Shakur

Tweet this: “You gotta get the ground beneath your feet, partner, get the wind behind your back and go out in a blaze if you got to!”

Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction

Played by: Samuel L. Jackson

Tweet this: “Say ‘what’ again! Say ‘what’ again! I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time!”

O-Dog, Menace II Society

Played by: Larenz Tate

Tweet this: “Anybody wanna hamburger? I just got it from a basehead!”

Sho Nuff, The Last Dragon

Played by: Julius Carry

Tweet this: “Kiss my Converse!”

Evilene, The Wiz

Played by: Mabelle King

Tweet this: “Don’t nobody bring me no bad news!”

Mary, Precious

Played by: Mo’Nique

Tweet this:”You sit there and you judge me, and you write them notes on your notepad, because you think you know who I am!”

Stab, Pee Wee and Zilla, House Party

Played by: Full Force

Tweet this: “We’ll kick yo’ fuckin ass!”

Deebo, Friday

Played by: Tiny Zeus Lester

Tweet this: “Wachu got on my 40, Homey?”/”This is MY bike!”

Alonzo, Training Day

Played by: Denzel Washington

Tweet this: “King Kong ain’t got shit on me!”

Nino Brown, New Jack City

Played by: Wesley Snipes

Tweet this: “Cancel this bitch!”

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Vin Diesel as Riddick in Pitch Black

Vanessa Williams as Keisha in New Jack City, “Rock-a-bye baby!”

Jeffrey Wright as Peoples Hernandez in Shaft (2000)

Vivica A. Fox as Vernita Green in Kill Bill

Mo’Nique took home the Best Supporting Actress award presented at last night’s 67th Golden Globes awards.

Mo’Nique was a front-runner for the Best Supporting Actress award based on her role as the extremely abusive mother in Lee Daniels’ film Precious.   She is expected to also be nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the Academy Awards.  Oscar nominations will be announced on February 2nd.

In a recent interview with the New York Times, comedian Mo’Nique defends her decision to not participate in any of the Oscar buzz surrounding her outstanding performance in the highly successful film Precious.

“Anytime I’ve been given an award, it has been because of the performance; what else goes into it?” she said, appearing genuinely mystified. “Look, it makes me appreciative any time someone says they may want to honor your performance. I’m appreciative at any talk in reference to any award, but there’s not much I can do about it now. The performance is done.”

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I have to applaud her for taking this stance and refusing to give into the brown-nosing that comes around when it’s time to talk Oscar nominations.  The Oscars are given in recognition of an actor’s outstanding performance in a film, not based on participation in press junkets.  If everyone feels that her performance is worthy of an Oscar, what difference does it make whether or not she goes on every talk show or does interviews with every magazine and newspaper to promote the film?  Enough buzz was generated about her performance before the movie even hit theaters that it really wasn’t necessary! It’s difficult to read an article about the film that does not glowingly fawn over Mo’Nique’s performance and/or that of her co-star Gabourey Sidibe.

So again, kudos to Mo’Nique for making it about her art, and not about the cult of celebrity. If only more of her peers could let their work speak for itself without being attention whores…

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In this week’s issue of PEOPLE, Mo’Nique opens up about the sexual abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her eldest brother – and how she channeled that experience onscreen.

“Coming from being molested as a child, when [director Lee Daniels] said, ‘I need you to be this monster,’ well [I] knew who that monster was,” she says.

Now, critics are pegging Mo’Nique, 41, as a possible Oscar nominee, but that doesn’t phase her. “Any buzz I’m appreciative of,” she says simply.

Continued At People.com

This is from the Uptown Comedy Club, if y’all remember it. This was at the height of the yo mama jokes and a young Tracy Morgan and a young Monique faced off in this episode.

We can all use a good laugh from time to time and this gallery is of the folks who do it better than anybody.

Who are your favorite comedians? Let us know in the comments!

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Actress-comedian Mo’Nique says she knew it was time to lose weight when her husband, Sidney Hicks, watched her step off the scale at 262 pounds and said, “Baby, that’s too much, and I want you for a lifetime.”

“I decided that I had to get some of that off of me. Sid and I had a conversation. What he said to me was motivation,” she tells the new issue of Jet magazine.

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Now 40 pounds lighter, the entertainer and star of the upcoming film “Precious” is suddenly battling rumors that she underwent gastric–bypass.

“I’m so scared of needles,” she said in denying the reports.

Instead, she made dietary sacrifices and stopped eating red meat and hit the gym. She says, “This was truly making the commitment to watch what I eat and commit to working out. I stopped eating red meat. I want to say to big people, ‘Let’s be healthy big people.’ Everybody can’t be a size 0… but let’s be healthy.’”

Mo’Nique is now determined to get her weight down to 200 pounds.

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MoNique’s syndicated radio show will end its run on Wednesday (March 18) after just eight months on the air.

Radio Online is reporting that the comedienne has chosen to shut down “The Mo’Nique Show” in order to “further her career in television, film and comedy.” However, the Web site RadioSyndication Talk says the show was canceled by distributor Syndication One.

“Details are still coming in but the handwriting was on the wall when after a much heralded debut on KDAY Los Angeles, the show was removed after just four months due to a format shift,” the Web site reported Saturday. “The same scenario happened in Philadelphia in January, leaving the show with less than seven affiliates.”

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Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry will team with Lionsgate to help promote its newest film acquisition, Push.

The Lee Daniels-directed film took the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in U.S. Dramatic Competition at last month’s Sundance Film Festival. The story follows an overweight, illiterate African-American teen in Harlem who is about to give birth to her second child when she is accepted into an alternative school.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. The moment I saw ‘Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire,’ I knew I wanted to do whatever I could to encourage other people to see this movie. The film is so raw and powerful–it split me open,” said Winfrey, who will promote the movie through her company Harpo Films. Perry will promote via his shingle, “34th Street Films.”

The cast includes newcomer Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe in the lead role, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd and Lenny Kravitz.