10 Women Who Make Us Laugh
Kathy Griffin, 42
The D-List diva cuts celebrities down to size and exposes the hilarious underbelly of her own almost-famous life.
Wanda Sykes, 45
She never fails to call it as she sees it (just ask Dick Cheney!), and this fall she’ll get to do so on her own Saturday late-night talk show.
Diane Keaton, 63
She shines in four comedies that defined their decades: Annie Hall, Baby Boom, The First Wives Club and Something’s Gotta Give. We can’t wait to see what she’ll tell us about women in 2010.
Ellen DeGeneres, 51
Her name says it all: She wins fans with her remarkably generous, gentle brand of observational humor.
Holland Taylor, 66
Her matriarch on Two and a Half Men is just the latest in a grand series of comically caustic authority figures.
Tracey Ullman, 49
Her State of the Union series skewers characters ranging from a Buffalo news anchor (“It’s five a.m. and five below”) to Laura Bush.
Whoopi Goldberg, 53
From her Ghost-ly psychic role to her verbal smackdowns on The View, she’s the comic voice of reason.
Jane Krakowski, 40
As 30 Rock’s Jenna, she takes self-absorption to spectacular new heights.
Lily Tomlin, 69
Since playing Laugh-In’s ringy-dingying Ernestine, she has found loony humanity in a parade of misfits.
Margaret Cho, 40
The Korean-American star has turned her struggles with racism, weight and addiction into lacerating, explicit, politically charged comedy.
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