Actresses Who Always Make You Laugh

Madeline Kahn

Molly Shannon

Bea Arthur

Amy Sedaris

Kerri Kenney

Amy Poehler

Madeline Kahn, Julie Kavner, Barbara Harris, Emma Thompson, Gracie Allen, Christine Baranksi...

Madonna. Except I'm usually laughing AT her

Krysten Ritter

She makes me laugh (it’s not Marilyn).

From what I’ve seen, Lily Tomlin. But I haven’t seen some movie she did with, I think, Art Carney; or this current thing with Jane Fonda.

Laurie Metcalf.

Allison Janney

Catherine O’Hara

Madeline Kahn

Julie Andrews

Jennifer Coolidge

Carol Burnett

I always thought Agnes Moorehead's line deliveries on "Bewitched" were hilarious.

Maggie Smith

Tracey Ullman.

Suzanne Pleshette

Mindy Cohn

Paula Prentiss

Who else? Keep this going

Edie Adams

Arlene Francis

Goldie Hawn

The inimitable Edna Mae Oliver.

Lucille Ball

Gilda Radner

Ingrid Thulin

Holly Woodlawn

Mink Stole

Jackie Hoffman.

Marcia Cross

Tracey Ullman

Kaitlin Olsen is very funny.

TTHE GOLDEN GIRLS

Mary Holland

Betty White

Jennifer Coolidge

Amy Poehler

Jessica Walter

Jane Krakowski

Carol Burnett

Jennifer Saunders

Madeline Kahn

Catherine O'Hara

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Wanda Sykes, slays.

Margaret Cho too.

Jan Hooks, Catherine ohare

Joanna Lumley

Elsa Lanchester

Patricia Routledge

Prunella Scales

Margaret Rutherford

Irene Ryan as Granny Clampett

also Nancy Kulp as Miss Jane Hathaway

LaWanda Page (Aunt Esther)

Margaret Hamilton

Rue McClanahan

Kate Mulgrew

Carrie Fisher

Patty Duke

Kirstie Alley. RIP

Kristen Wiig

Molly Shannon

Debra Wilson (tho save for voiceovers, I’m not aware of anything she’s done outside of comedy sketch)

Melissa McCarthy

Edith Evans

Joan Greenwood

Edie McClurg

Vicki Lawrence

Miriam Flynn

Katey Sagal

Sally Field. As a kid I loved her performance as the stressed and overworked mom in the movie "Mrs. Doubtfire" especially the scene where she discovers that Doubtfire was really her ex the whole time and freaks the fuck out. She was also great in "Hello, My Name Is Doris".

That Dratch thing on SNL sure never did!!!

Allison Janney. Never disappoints.

THELMA RITTER

Edith Evans, when she wishes to be seen as funny.

And when she doesn't, she can be devastating.

Favorite anecdote:

With her uplifted, exposed bosom and makeup for "Tom Jones," the not-known-for-her-prettiness Evans was feeling confident and said to director Tony Richardson,

"Tony, I don't look 70, do I?"

Richardson responded,

"Not anymore, love. Not anymore."

Melissa McCarthy

Nicole Byer

Imogene Coca

Tracey Ullman

Mink Stole

Sarah Silverman (Don't start.)

Madeline Kahn

Myrna Loy

Holland Taylor

Madeline Kahn seems to be leading the thread.

Melissa McCarthy, even in her terrible movies.

Madeline is/was beloved...like Judy Holliday.

Molly Shannon seems to be in second place.

Kathryn Hahn is a recent one.

This beautifully shows off Kathryn Hahn's hilarious comic timing. Her facial reactions just kill me, and some of them are very subtle.

Bette Midler.

Jean Smart!

Allison Janney and Melissa McCarthy

Maria Ouspenskaya

Tamara Empson

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tracey Ulman.

Melissa McCarthy

Bonnie Hunt

Amy Sedaris

Megan Mullally

Telma Hopkins

Margaret Cho

Melissa McCarthy

Molly Shannon

Catherine O'Hara

Joan Cusack

Harriet Sansom Harris

Jennifer Saunders

Cecily Strong

Jennifer Coolidge

Margaret Rutherford.

She's funny in everything, but in the final minutes of "The Happiest Days of Your Lives," when she's taking the parents on tour of the school where she works as headmistress, she had me laughing so hard I was on the floor of the revival house.

Mo Collins Valerie Harper, pictured upthread as Marilyn Monroe, was terrific on MTM. Jan Hooks Nora Dunn Markie Post on Night Court Wanda Sykes

Shelley Long Bette Midler

Bonnie Bedelia

Stephanie Wier

Madelyn Kahn

Doris Packer

(Mrs. Chatsworth Osborne Sr, on "Dobie Gillis" and Beaver's school principal)

G. Especially in HILLBILLY ELEGY and on Oscar night.

Marjorie Taylor Green

Amy Schumer

Kahn, Garr, Kurtz, Coolidge

Wiest

I would watch Jennifer Coolidge read the phone book. Yes, I’m old.

Goldie Hawn forever. Her and Lucille Ball are my favorite comediennes

[quote]Her and Lucille Ball are my favorite comediennes.

Oh, dear.

Regina Hall

The one and only.

Kathleen Freeman

Kathy Burke.