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Mabel “Madea” Simmons is a fictional character created by writer/director Tyler Perry. Based on Perry’s mother and aunt, Madea is an aggressive, grey haired, bespectacled African American matriarch. She will argue with anyone, she also has the very frequent tendency to threaten people by pulling a gun out of her purse, and she has a penchant for her unique pronunciation and enunciation of words as reflected in her tag lines, “I oughta punch chur in da face!” and “Get that man a hat!” She is part of a large family, with many children and grandchildren. Her name is spelled variously as “Mabel” and “Mable”. She is portrayed by Tyler Perry himself in both the films and plays. “Madea” or “Madear” is a typical Southern name for a grandmother; the term is a shortened form of “Mother Dear”. Although Madea was featured heavily in most of Tyler’s plays and films, including Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea’s Family Reunion, and most recently, Meet the Browns, the argument can be made that she is not the Protagonist of them, but more so the comic relief to the play/film’s dramatics setting. But, she is considered the heroine of all of Tyler Perry’s plays and films even in those in which she does not appear.



Madea Goes to Jail is a 2009 crime comedy-drama film adaptation written and directed by Tyler Perry,[2] which was inspired by Perry’s play of the same name. The film centers on Perry’s character Madea Simmons going to jail for her uncontrollable anger management problems, and also focuses on a developing romance between a young lawyer and a female friend from his past (whom Madea meets in jail). An exclusive preview of the movie was included on the cinematic release of Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys.