The 10 hottest funny girls
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The leading ladies
Hollywood’s leading ladies are taking hilarity to the next level. We’re especially tickled that Betty White, still cracking up moviegoers at age 88, is making more headlines than most starlets. Read on for our favourite female comedians from the big and small screens.
Tina Fey
Why we love her Her whip-smart wit, both on camera and behind the scenes as a writer (Mean Girls, Saturday Night Live).
Funniest gig Fey’s hilarious (and eerily precise) impersonation of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live is legendary—and it earned her an Emmy.
Where to catch her Pole dancing with Steve Carell in Date Night; making Liz Lemon-ade on the hit comedy 30 Rock.
Jane Lynch
Why we love her The prolific actress and Second City alum steals just about every scene she’s in.
Funniest line Lynch delivers half a dozen zingers per episode of Glee. A prime example: “This is what we call a total disaster ladies. I'm going to ask you to smell your armpits. That's the smell of failure and it's stinking up my office.”
Where to catch her Spreading her own brand of team spirit as villainous cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on Glee (the role recently scored Lynch an Emmy). Also check her out in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and mockumentaries Best in Show and A Mighty Wind.
Betty White
Why we love her Our favourite Golden Girl just gets funnier—and more profane—with age.
Funniest line A Facebook campaign helped White score a coveted hosting gig on Saturday Night Live in May, giving the often-lacklustre show a huge ratings boost. During her opening monologue, White quipped: “Needless to say, we didn’t have Facebook when I was growing up. We had phone book, but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it.”
Where to catch her Getting hot and bothered in Hot in Cleveland and showing Ryan Reynolds who’s boss in a teaser for The Proposal.
Samantha Bee
Why we love her Her satirical interviews and self-deprecating humour—and she’s Canadian!
Funniest gig Most Senior Correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Where to catch her Spilling her guts in her recently released essay collection, i know i am but what are you?
Kristen Wiig
Why we love her She’s a riot, whether she’s sending up financial expert Suze Orman on Saturday Night Live or reciting “the early poems” of Suzanne Somers for theatre company Celebrity Autobiography.
Funniest characters The chatty Target Lady and chronic one-upper Penelope, two of her off-the-wall personae on Saturday Night Live.
Where to catch her Raising a little (Maggie) Mayhem in Whip It and packing serious heat (and guffaws) in MacGruber.
Kristen Bell
Why we love her Her fabulous comedic timing and screwball antics.
Funniest scene Having screamingly good sex with Russell Brand in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Where to catch her Facing her high-school nemesis in You Again; starting rumours as narrator of Gossip Girl; and being a stage mom in the indie comedy Dance of the Mirlitons, due out in 2011.
Alyson Hannigan
Why we love her She’s a wise-cracking ham—and she kicked undead butt on all seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Funniest line “This one time, at band camp…” (American Pie)
Where to catch her Hanging with Jason Segel and Neil Patrick Harris on the sixth season of How I Met Your Mother.
Sandra Bullock
Why we love her She can play both funny and fierce—and she doesn’t take crap from anyone.
Funniest gig The latently fabulous Gracie Hart in the smash hit Miss Congeniality, in which she coos obnoxiously to co-star Benjamin Bratt, “You think I'm gorgeous...You want to kiss me...You want to hug me...You want to love me...You want to smooch me... You want to hug me.”
Where to catch her Blackmailing Ryan Reynolds in The Proposal, and starring in Kiss and Tango, the upcoming rom-com adaptation of Marina Palmer’s memoir.
Amy Poehler
Why we love her She’s gutsy, goofy and grounded.
Funniest gigs Nine years of laughs on Saturday Night Live, including a much-lauded stint at the “Weekend Update” anchor desk. She also had us in stitches with her role as a down-and-out surrogate for Tina Fey in Baby Mama: “Can I just spray a little PAM down there right before the baby comes out?”
Where to catch her On Parks and Recreation as the painfully oblivious bureaucrat Leslie Knope.
Emma Stone
Why we love her A fresh face on the Hollywood scene, Stone is winning raves for her role as a good girl with a bad rep in the comedy Easy A.
Funniest gig Geek-turned-glamazon Natalie in The House Bunny.
Where to catch her In Zombieland and Superbad and hosting Saturday Night Live on October 23.
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