Lady Parts Baroness von Sketch Show alumnae Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show, Small Achievable Goals, takes aim at ...

Bridget, meanwhile, has remained her lovably imperfect self. The actress closes the diary with “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” the fourth and likely final chapter of the film series.

The physics of ugly Christmas sweaters The ways a sweater is folded, stretched or rumpled determines how it settles into one of several resting meta-states.

By the turn of the millennium, they were widely viewed as sartorial disasters, epitomized in the 2001 film Bridget Jones’s Diary, where Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy awkwardly sports a reindeer-emblazoned ...

So were you, probably, if you watched it in the cinema. But you probably also smiled. Such is the heartwarming power of the UCS. Colin Firth sports a fine example of the ugly Christmas sweater in 2001 ...

Such is the heartwarming power of the UCS. Colin Firth sports a fine example of the ugly Christmas sweater in 2001 hit movie "Bridget Jones's Diary." - Miramax/Everett Collection ...

Fading back into obscurity again in the 1990s, it wasn't until 2001 when Bridget Jones' Diary was released that things got even more interesting for ugly sweaters.

A scene in the 2001 film Bridget Jones’s Diary has Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy character, who is a sophisticated lawyer, wearing a sweater with a large, cartoonish reindeer head to a holiday party.

“Colin Firth is a great example, having popularised the Christmas sweater in Bridget Jones’s Diary. But he also knows a good cardie. The one he wears in Love Actually, though tatty, is sexy.” ...

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Colin Firth’s moose sweater, or jumper, in Bridget Jones’s Diary is iconic, but he said wearing it on set wasn’t a dream come true. “The set was lit at about ...