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There are a lot of superficial things that make a girl hot. From bustlines to backsides, most are quick to judge a girl purely based on her physical attributes. However, we have to point out there are more factors than just the looks department. A good sense of humor goes a long way in our book. It's easy to fall for the really hot girl in the short term, but over a longer period of time, the funny girl trumps the hot girl—unless the funny girl is also hot. This is the perfect situation. A really hot girl with an A+ sense of humor is basically like hitting the jackpot. Coincidentally, some of the hottest funny girls happen to be really famous.
With the premiere of New Girl (starringZooey Deschanel) and The Mindy Project (starring Mindy Kaling) set to air tonight, we thought of rounding up the hottest funny girls of all time. From stand-up comediennes to award-winning actresses, we've got you completely covered.
Whitney Cummings
Funniest Role: Whitney in Whitney
Memorable Quote: "Stand-up is a lot like sex. There's a lot of crying involved and I get paid to do it."
Cummings is a comedienne who blew up seemingly out of nowhere. After she graduated college in 2004, she worked on MTV's Punk'd and started doing stand up. She began touring with some of the most famous names in stand-up comedy and by 2011, she had two sitcoms about to premiere on primetime. Now, in 2012, she's starting her own talk show Love You, Mean it with Whitney Cummings.
Marion Davies
Funniest Role: Dulcy in Not So Dumb (1930)
Memorable Quote: “Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.”
Davies is a legend for many reasons: she's one of the greatest comediennes of the silent era, she's the inspiration for Kane's wife in Citizen Kane, and she continued to have a thriving career in talkies despite a childhood stutter. Her comedic charms weren't only displayed on set, however. Davies is a known for getting President Calvin Coolidge wasted by giving him wine and claiming it was fruit juice.
Tichina Arnold
Funniest Role: Pam on Martin
Memorable Quote: "You will always be placed in a box. There's not too many roles for us as African Americans, so we kind of got to take what comes our way. Any actor would love to have diversity, but I've turned down a lot of stuff."
Tichina Arnoldnever's career never really took off after Martin, but her 124-episode run on the classic TV show was one for the ages. Arnold played Matin Lawrence's antagonist--a truly brilliant character portrayal--for six years, and 15 years since the show's finale we still get a kick out of their non-stop bickering. Come to think of it, we totally understand why castmates Tommy and Cole were crushing. Her sassy attitude makes her one of the hottest funny girls of all time.
Janeane Garofalo
Funniest Role: Beth in Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
Memorable Quote: "I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."
Janeane Garafalo, our favorite dysfunctional camp counselor in Wet Hot American Summer, is unconventionally hot. Though we wouldn't categorize her as an unequivocal knockout, her quick wit and unique sense of humor is more than enough to steal our love and affection. After flipping her career from a virtually unknown stand-up comedian in the '80s to becoming a critically acclaimed personality on The Larry Sanders Show and SNL by the mid-'90s, it was clear she had more star power than your average celeb. And she hasn't eased off the gas since. One look at her long list of accomplishments and you'll be thirsty to put a ring on it.
Lena Dunham
Funniest Role: Hannah Horvath on Girls
Memorable Quote: "The idea of seeing your parents naked or having somebody go down on you and worrying about whether you smell or worrying about whether your body is weird or what goes across the face of a person who’s supposed to be experiencing pleasure but isn’t—those are things I’d love to normalize on TV."
Although she doesn't have a filmography quite like some of the other funny girls who made the cut, it doesn't mean that Lena Dunham is any less deserving. In a few short years, the 26-year-old writer/actress has gone from idling in obscurity to basking in the limelight. After scoring big at South by Southwest in 2010 with Tiny Furniture, she took her talents to HBO and teamed up with Hollywood funny guy Judd Apatow for the hit series Girls.
Debra Messing
Funniest Role: Grace Adler on Will & Grace
Memorable Quote: "I'm not going to be funny, I'm just going to be earnest."
Most actresses spend their entire career chasing the accolades Debra Messing has complied over the years. Her eight-season run as Grace Adler on Will & Grace was groundbreaking as it was the first TV series to star openly-homosexual lead characters. Six Emmys and eight Golden Globes later, Messing had cemented her legacy as one of the most decorated sitcom actresses of all time. Oh, and lest we forget, during that time she even earned a a well-deserved nod for People's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 2002.
Gilda Radner
Funniest Role: Rosanne Rosanneadanna on Saturday Night Live
Memorable Quote: "I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships."
Long before Kristen Wiig was stealing the show at studio 6H, Gilda Radner was making it her home. Radner, one of the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players for what would become Saturday Night Live captured American's hearts and laughter with her iconic characters, like the complaining Roseanne Roseannadanna, and her adorable charismatic personality.
Fran Drescher
Funniest Role: Fran Fine on The Nanny
Memorable Quote: "Who would make this [voice] up?"
The first thing that comes to mind when you think of Fran Drescher is her insufferable voice. Yes, it's very annoying, but that's her thing. It's what makes her stand out from the other actresses who have come and gone during her career, which now spans over 35 years. Her 145-episode run as Fran Fine on The Nanny earned her Golden Globe and Emmy nods, and although she never came away with any hardware, it doesn't take away from the fact that for a solid period of six she was one of only a handful of famous funny girls on TV.
Lucille Ball
Funniest Role: Lucy on I Love Lucy
Memorable Quote: "I'm not funny. What I am is brave."
"Lucy, I'm home!" Ricky Ricardo famously proclaimed as he arrived home from work on I Love Lucy. You'll be hard pressed to think of many more iconic one-liners in the history of TV. We'd be racing home, too, if we had an attractive wifey waiting for us. Beyond I Love Lucy, Ball also had a tremendous business acumen. She co-owned Desilu Productions, a company responsible for popular TV shows Star Trek, The Untouchables, and more. From the TV screen to behind the scenes, Lucille Ball had it going on.
Anjelah Johnson
Funniest Role: Bon Qui Qui on MADtv
Memorable Quote: "There aren't a lot of Latina comics out there...I want to be relatable for other Latinas; I want girls to see that you can be funny and Latina at the same time."
Johnson may be the best thing that MadTV has ever given the comedy world. Bon Qui Qui, her rude employee of a fast food restaurant, is still quoted by disgruntled food service employees everywhere. Not to mention, her stand-up act is quite similar to Johnson herself: blisteringly hot.
Mindy Kaling
Funniest Role: Kelly Kapoor on The Office
Memorable Quote: “You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face—who will love them now?”
Kaling already made a name for herself as a writer and actress on The Office, where she played the gossip-y, high-strung, love-obsessed Kelly. But after becoming the bestselling author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Kaling is living every comedian's dream: starring in her own sitcom. The Mindy Project debuts this fall and Kaling continues to be love-obsessed and gorgeous.
Leslie Mann
Funniest Role: Robin Harris in The Cable Guy (1996)
Memorable Quote: "There aren’t good roles for women, the female parts aren’t developed, the women are serving the men."
We're pretty sure that one of the prerequisites to marrying Judd Apatow is that you have to be funny. So, by that virtue, Leslie Mann has to be hilarious. It's also implied that you have to be really hot, and Leslie Mann certainly fits the description. From older classics like The Cable Guy and Big Daddy to more recent box office hits, the uber droll actress has a comedic filmography matched by few, if any.
Kaley Cuoco
Funniest Role: Penny on The Big Bang Theory
Memorable Quote: "You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it."
If landing roles in critically acclaimed TV shows is your baseline for measuring an actress' hotness, then Kaley Cuoco should rank pretty high in your system. Since bursting on the scene as in 2002 as Bridget Hennessy on the Emmy Award-winning TV show 8 Simple Rules, she has gone on put together an impressive run of gigs, including her current tenure as the hot girl-next-door (with a heart for geeks) in the Golden Globe-winning comedy series The Big Bang Theory.
Betty White
Funniest Role: Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls
Memorable Quote: "I can credit my folks for my genes. That said, I can't get over that at this age I don't feel this age. I'm not trying to be any younger. I'm not lying about my age. If I were lying about my age, I would say I was 89. I'm just at one of those good times in one's life. I'm at one of the high spots. I'm healthy enough to enjoy it. I'm surrounded by friends I adore. Isn't that kind of the best way to sign off?"
It's understandable if you're not down with GILFs, but White was a sight to be seen in her day. The quick witted Golden Girl was one of the few woman in television to have creative control in front and behind the camera in the '50s with her sitcom Life With Elizabeth. She had continued success on The Mary Tyler Moore Show with her man-eating Sue Ann Nivens.
Amanda Bynes
Funniest Role: Herself on Nickelodeon's All That
Memorable Quote: "@jlapuma is fucking hot"
Lately Amanda Bynes has kept busy by maintaining a consistent streak or run-ins with the law. Hard to believe considering at one point she was the toast of the town, a cultural darling or sorts. Sure, she's been known to take it to head—sometimes beyond excess—but that doesn't diminish what the 26-year-old has accomplished in her career, which, by the way, spans over three decades. And let's not forget the fact that her hotness totally flies under the radar. Ispo facto, perhaps we should give her a pass for her recent string of missteps and hope she gets back to making funny movies.
Sommore
Funniest Role: Herself in Sommore: The Queen Stands Alone (2008)
Memorable Quote: "Women are hard on other women! A lady can walk into the club looking just perfect... Another woman will check her out from head to toe, turn around and say, 'The bitch toenail polish is chipped—she ain't all that!'"
Though she hasn't accrued much notoriety through TV and movies, Sommore has earned respect among her peers as one of the funniest stand-up comediennes in the game. Don't get us wrong, her characters in Next Friday and Soul Plane were solid sources of entertainment, but her consistently hilarious routines on Def Comedy Jam and Comic View put her in rarified air amongst comedians, male or female. She absolutely deserves props for her ruthless punchiness and viscous one-liners.
Mary Louise Parker
Funniest Role: Nancy Botwin on Weeds
Memorable Quote: "I was devastated when I found out that my boyfriend was leaving me for another woman, I was seven months pregnant, for crying out loud! I was also devastated when I ran out of chocolate milk, things pass, life goes on."
It hasn't always been dime bags and drug deals for Mary-Louise Parker. She paid her dues in the acting game during the '80s and '90s, building a strong career in theater while bouncing between minor movie roles. Her official arrival to the Hollywood came after award-winning roles in The West Wing and Angels in America. Shortly thereafter, Parker took on the role as Nancy Botwin in the popular Showtime series Weeds, where she has not only carried the show through seven successful seasons, but has done so with witty charm and next level sex appeal.
Mary Tyler Moore
Funniest Role: Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Memorable Quote: "I'm an experienced woman; I've been around...well, alright, I might not've been around, but I've been nearby."
Young female professionals have the charming Mary Tyler Moore to thank. Her newsroom sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, was groundbreaking in the '70s. After playing the dutiful, yet funny, wife on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Moore showed in her own sitcom that a woman didn't need to be married, with children and in the house when she was 30.
Cobie Smulders
Funniest Role: Robin Scherbatsky on How I Met Your Mother
Memorable Quote: What’s more awkward than doing a shower scene? Rehearsing a shower scene. Josh Radnor and I were like: ‘We’re imagining water running right now.’”
It's always nice when an actress' last name describes them. Smulders is, seriously, smoldering hot, and she shows off her impeccable comedic timing on How I Met Your Mother; just google Robin Sparkles. In fact, comedy attracts her, too, as she is married to SNL's Taran Killam.
Gillian Jacobs
Funniest Role: Britta Perry on Community
Memorable Quote: "There's an absurdity to [Community]. We exist in a world in which anything can happen week to week, and that pushes me in so many ways."
Britta is often the butt of the jokes on Community—the rest of her character's study group describes messing up or killing the fun as "pulling a Britta"—but Jacobs handles the situation with grace and in an offbeat, purely comedic fashion all her own. Thanks to the loyal fan base of the show, her enigmatic character's become a pop cultural icon that'll continue to referenced, quoted and fawned over years after the sitcom ends (which, we hope, is after six seasons and movie).
Tisha Campbell-Martin
Funniest Role: Gina in Martin, Janet Marie Kyle in My Wife and Kids
Memorable Quote: "Okay, since we're sharing visions here, I had one, too, and in my vision, I had a husband, Denzel."
We don't want to say Tisha Campbell was type casted after settling into her role as Gina in the hit TV show Martin, but we really haven't seen her full repertoire since. Cambell played the ride-or-die significant other in her two most memorable roles in Martin and My Wife and Kids. Nevertheless, that doesn't take away from the fact that she made us laugh for the better part of two decades, however.
Kat Dennings
Funniest Role: Max Black on 2 Broke Girls
Memorable Quote: "I've had people tell me to get Mystic Tan, blonde highlights, choppy haircuts, but I've made a conscious decision not to cave."
What's not to love about Kat Dennings? She attractive, smart, and funny. That's a winning combination as far as we're concerned. In fact, we love her so much that we called upon her to grace the cover of our April/May 2011 cover. Back then, her momentum was building and Thor was set to hit theaters nationwide. Now the 26-year-old has struck again with her popular CBS sitcom, 2 Broke Girls. That's how she rolls.
Amy Poehler
Funniest Role: Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation
Memorable Quote: "I'm going to do The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo. And I have a part in Beige Swan. I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never."
Besides being the optimistic beam of political sunshine on Parks and Recreation, Poehler is also busy being an hilarious role model for young girls. After apologizing to friend Tina Fey in Baby Mama for "farting in [her] purse," having a creepy relationship with her on-screen brother in Blades of Glory, and stealing the SNL spotlight, Poehler has created a Youtube channel called Smart Girls at the Party, where young people can get a laugh and a positive body image.
Madeline Kahn
Funniest Role: Lili von Shtupp, the "Teutonic Titwillow" in Blazing Saddles (1974)
Memorable Quote: "Actually, I hold a degree in speech therapy. I was going to get my doctorate but acting got in the way. Pity, I always thought I`d like to do something dignified."
Kahn is best known for her work with the incomparable Mel Brooks, including Young Frankenstein and High Anxiety. In fact, she was even nominated for an Academy Award for singing about how tired of sex she was in Blazing Saddles. The three times Kahn hosted SNL are often remembered as some of the strongest episodes of the early seasons.
Zooey Deschanel
Funniest Role: Jess Day on New Girl
Memorable Quote: "The fact that people are associating being girlie with weakness--that needs to be examined...Are we bitches because we have our own opinions? If that makes me a bitch, or that makes women bitches, then maybe we're all bitches."
Zooey Deschanel isn't exactly writing the book on how to be a social butterfly. In fact, she's actually quite awkward--so much so that she's become a pop culture meme of sorts. The "adorkably" cute actress has had her fair share of awkward moments, but that's part of her whole shtick. It's what makes her so effing desirable. We might jeer her for lacking social savvy, she ultimately gets the last laugh because she has somehow managed to parlay her off-kilter sense of humor into lucrative acting gigs as well as Grammy, Emmy, and Golden Globe nominations. And for that, she deserves major props.
Jenny McCarthy
Funniest Role: Yvette Denslow in BASEketball (1998)
Memorable Quote: "I'm not a sex symbol. I'm the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun. People don't come up to me and say, 'Love your butt.' They say, 'You're funny!'"
Jenny McCarthy wasn't known as the funny girl until after she appeared in the October 1993 issue of Playboy. After gaining notoriety, she signed on to host MTV's comedic dating show Singled Out. She became an instant success her hosting gig lead to additional appearances in Playboy and the cult classic comedy BASEketball. Who cares if she was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for her performance? She looked hot and, really, that's all that matters!
Lea Michele
Funniest Role: Rachel Berry on Glee
Memorable Quote: "So much has changed. I didn't have my bangs, I'd never had a boyfriend and I still had a tiny layer of baby fat."
Lea Michele has always had star quality. However, her big break didn't come until she landed the role of a lifetime on the musical comedy-drama Glee. Both on and off set, she is a likable girl with a bubbly personality, but being funny is one of her many talents. Of course, we know about her acting abilities, but what you might not know is she also boasts Grammy award-winning musical talent. The 26-year-old babe has a trophy case full of prestigious awards, and she's not letting up anytime soon.
Chelsea Handler
Funniest Role: Host of Chelsea Lately
Memorable Quote: "My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate."
Say what you want about Chelsea Handler, but you can't front like she's not the least bit hilarious. The 37-year-old funny girl doesn't pull any punches and anyone, including celebrities, can fall victim to her candid and oftentimes offensive humor. It's all in good fun, though, as Handler knows she can end up on the butt end of jokes because of her history of extracurricular exploits (DUI arrests, illicit drug use, and a rather indiscriminate sexual appetite). But that's what makes Chelsea likable: She's not one hide the fact that she's had a few missteps in her journey to superstardom.
Lizzy Caplan
Funniest Role: Casey Klein on Party Down
Memorable Quote: “If I had a glass eye, I'd always do that-pop it out and put it in my mouth. Throw it at people. Why not?”
Caplan is the definition of a funny girl today. Her sassily sarcastic tone is beyond comparison and you probably didn't even realize it was her. She's been in cult comedy hits like Freaks and Geeks and Party Down as well the Sundance hit, Bachelorette. Not to mention, she, folks, is the meanest goth you had an uncontrollable crush on: Janis Ian from Mean Girls.
Aisha Tyler
Funniest Role: Lana Kane on Archer
Memorable Quote: "Do you have any idea what it's like when you try and make home porn? My husband and I tried it. We looked like charging hippos. Best to leave it to the pros.”
Smart, sexy, and hilarious Tyler is known for her stand-up comedy, her voice acting for Archer, her role on Ghost Whisperer and now as a cohost on The Talk. As if Tyler couldn't be more perfect, she also brews her own beer and plays video games. God's gift to men? We think so.
Carole Lombard
Funniest Role: Irene Bullock in My Man Godfrey (1936)
Memorable Quote: “God knows I love Clark (Gable), but he’s the worst lay in the town.”
Lombard was the queen of the then-budding screwball comedy genre. She was the highest paid actress and was praised for her quick wit, as well as her platinum blonde-girl-next-door appeal.
Katherine Hepburn
Funniest Role: Tracy Lords in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Memorable Quote: "Life is hard. After all, it kills you."
After Hepburn was labeled "Box Office Poison," despite critics rave reviews of her comedies like Bringing Up Baby, she bought herself out of her studio contract and returned to theater. There, she perfected the role of Tracy Lords in The Philadelphia Story, an aggressive socialite and regained Hollywood's attention. She sold the rights of the play to MGM with the condition she starred in the screwball comedy. She mastered her comedic timing and slapstick moves. Her theory was if she could fall on her face enough, the audience would feel bad and like her again.
Elizabeth Banks
Funniest Role: Miri in Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
Memorable Quote: "If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face."
Banks has said that when a woman has a leading lady body, which she does, they have to constantly prove they are funny, which, we repeat, she does. Roles in the cult comedy Wet Hot American Summer, her recurring character on 30 Rock, and her raunchy role in The 40-Year-Old Virgin simply prove that Banks is the epitome of a funny (not in that cute, flirtatious way) blonde bombshell. If you need further proof, we suggest a viewing of The Hunger Games where she plays Effie Trinket, a posh character who is oblivious to how ridiculous she is.
Regina Hall
Funniest Role: Brenda Meeks in Scary Movie (2000)
Memorable Quote: "If it’s a comedy, I can just build the character that has funny nuisances. I can’t really describe it, but I try to take what’s on paper and just add to it. Just take it in the direction I can and I do that whether it’s a drama or comedy. A lot of people do ask me if I’m a comedian and I usually say no."
It's too bad Regina Hall didn't somehow get worked into Scary Movie 5 because we would have totally gone to see it, no questions asked. The 41-year-old actress burst on the scene in 2000 with a hilarious performance in Scary Movie and we've been hooked ever since. Despite a solid resume, Hall's career hasn't yielded much in the way of awards or nominations—not even from less prestigious critics. None of that matters to us, though, because we thoroughly enjoy her hilarious one-liners.
Kristen Wiig
Funniest Role: Annie Walker in Bridesmaids (2011)
Memorable Quote: "If I were 21 and doing this commercial, I'd be all about what I look like. Now I'm like, 'Hell yeah! I'll sit on this couch and eat this yogurt that makes you crap!'"
What makes Wiig so hilarious is her dedication to her characters. In The Joe Schmo Show, the reality show where everyone was an actor except one man, Wiig stayed in character while being injured and sent off to the hospital. Wiig is so dedicated that she has no qualms about carrying baby hands and discussing eating squirrels to Hollywood hunks on SNL or dramatically watching her friend poop in the street in her film Bridesmaids. And it takes a really hot lady to still be attractive after all of that.
Sarah Silverman
Funniest Role: Sarah Silverman on The Sarah Silverman Program
Memorable Quote: "I dated a guy who was half-black, but he dumped me because I'm such a loser. Wow, I shouldn't say things like that, I'm such a pessimist…he's actually half-white."
Silverman doesn't see herself as a shock comic; she is constantly bringing ridiculous racist jokes out so people can reevaluate how ridiculous racism is. That doesn't mean she doesn't constantly get in trouble for what she says. That's why we only feel a little guilty when we think she's hot when she talks about Hitler.
Maya Rudolph
Funniest Role: Donatella Versace on Saturday Night Live
Memorable Quote: "I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny."
You don't make an eight-year run on Saturday Night Live unless you are one of the funniest people roaming the Earth, and that's exactly what Maya Rudolph is. The multifaceted comedienne has played hundreds of characters and been in some of the most memorable skits in recent SNL history. However, like many SNL alumni, Rudolph branched out as an actress and landed roles in box office hits such as Bridesmaids and the NBC sitcom Up All Night.
Olivia Munn
Funniest Role: Herself on Attack of the Show!
Memorable Quote: “How many of you have had a crush on a teacher? I mean, remember that Physics professor? Law One is so steamy, I'm getting worked up just thinking about it: Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it. Mee-yow.”
If you are just catching on to Olivia Munn, it's probably because of her role on HBO's new series The Newsroom. But before achieving premium cable stardom, she got her start as a host of G4's Attack of the Show!, in which do shows in cosplay costumes, lick electronics, and occasionally get into hot tubs with random celebrities. Oh, and she's also written a book about all this ridiculousness in her life called, Suck It Wonder Woman!
Portia De Rossi
Funniest Role: Lindsay Bluth Funke on Arrested Development
Memorable Quote: "People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent."
American audiences first took notice of de Rossi as Nelle Porter in Ally McBeal, where she was the witty comic relief and the court rooms hottest girl. She's now recognized as the girl with the best chicken impression on Arrested Development, Lindsay Bluth Funke.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Funniest Role: Elaine on Seinfeld
Memorable Quote: "I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice."
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a storm of comedy. She dropped out of her junior year of college to be on SNL, moved on to the greatest sitcom about nothing, Seinfeld, and has even beat the Seinfeld curse, twice. She's found success in The New Adventures of Old Christine, and now the hilarious political comedy Veep.
Anna Faris
Funniest Role: Shelley Darlington in The House Bunny (2008)
Memorable Quote: “I'm not easily grossed out, but you can't help being turned off a little at the thought of being plastered to the ceiling by your boyfriend's man-juice.”
Faris got her start as the innocent hero of Scary Movie, but her comedic acting chops have only improved; take for instance her monologue in Smiley Face, the greatest stoner monologue to grace the silver screen. Faris always knows how to gracefully walk in between hilarious and hot, like her role in Just Friends as the spazzy self-centered pop star, or the sexy Playboy bunny who helps a sorority of losers find their inner hot girl in The House Bunny.
Mila Kunis
Funniest Role: Jackie Burkhart on That '70s Show
Memorable Quote: "I was on Baywatch twice. The second time, I played a blind girl who's lost in the forest next to the beach and needs to be saved. It was absurd: There's a fire, I get saved, and then I go boogie-boarding. I remember thinking, 'Well, if I'm blind, how am I boogie-boarding?' No one ever gave me an answer."
Kunis became a household name when she played the outspoken, self-centered Jackie on That '70s Show. But it wasn't until her role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall that Kunis became a comedic force to be reckoned with. She already had the sex appeal down, she just needed to show off her improv chops. Kunis came alive in the comedic hit Friends With Benefits opposite Justin Timberlake and helped to create the current guy-friendly romcom genre. Hell, now she's a staple in all things bro-ishly funny. Just watch Ted and listen to her voice Meg on Family Guy.
Isla Fisher
Funniest Role: Katie in Bachelorette (2012)
Memorable Quote: "It was great having red hair as a kid, because I had something to blame my temper on. Now I go for the same colour palette as Conan O'Brien. "
Fisher first entered our radar as the one woman that could tear Shaggy away from a sandwich in Scooby-Doo, the fittingly-named Mary Jane. However, it was her appearance in Wedding Crashers as the unstable nut job Gloria that made us fall in love with her comedic timing (and her, to boot). In her latest role as Katie in Bachelorette, we see how easily Fisher can steal the show with her impressive, perfectly placed, one-liners.
Alison Brie
Funniest Role: Annie Edison on Community
Memorable Quote: "I wasn't a card-carrying nudist, but I did find it funny. It was enjoyable to run around campus naked from time to time. "
It's fitting that Brie was a clown before she had her big break as an actress. It's also fitting that she was somewhat of a free spirit in her own college career. Brie was far from her prudish straight-A character, Annie, in her own hallowed halls by admitting she was a bit of a nudist in college on Conan earlier this year. Thanks to her taste in the nuder things in life and her past as a birthday party sideshow, Brie can't help but win laughs with her neurotic-good-girl-with-a-naughty-side character in Community .
Rashida Jones
Funniest Role: Anne Perkins on Parks and Recreation
Memorable Quote: "Once, my sister, Michael, Emmanuel Lewis and I got in a car with Super Soakers and went by a movie theater and supersoaked the hell out of people waiting in line. They had no idea they'd just been supersoaked by the King of Pop."
Rashida Jones is the epitome of a girl crush. Everything about her make you want to drop whatever you're doing and gaze wistfully at her low key charm and undeniable sex appeal. There's something about her--a je ne sais quois quality--that has transformed her from Quincy Jones' daughter to a pop culture icon, largely because of her role as Anne Perkins on Parks and Recreation. We have been fans of Rashida for a while now, and as her stock continues to rise, she will only get hotter to us.
Aubrey Plaza
Funniest Role: April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation
Memorable Quote: "Thanks to Young Hollywood for this award. Thank you to all young people. Fuck you old people. Old people can go fuck themselves. I'm going to live forever."
Plaza has mastered a deadpan delivery with a quick dry wit. There's a fear that if you don't laugh at one of her jokes she may appear over your bedside to smother you. That's even how she got her job at Parks and Recreation as April, by intimidating creator Michael Shur. But there is something incredibly endearing about her, even when she turns down a magic show invitation from Ryan Gosling, but still plots to kill his girlfriend so they could be together. Plus, Plaza is starring in the next huge raunchy sex comedy The To-Do List with a bucket list of sex acts.
Jennifer Aniston
Funniest Role: Rachel Green on Friends
Memorable Quote: "When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy a toilet roll, you know your life has changed."
Aniston played Rachel, the post-nose-job spoiled hotty from one of the greatest sitcoms to ever grace the world, Friends. Not only did her role inspire one of the largest haircut crazes to sweep the nation, but she also became a staple in the rom-com genre. She played the gorgeous love interest in Bruce Almighty, Just Go with It, and—we're still crying over it—Marley and Me.
Sofia Vergara
Funniest Role: Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on Modern Family
Memorable Quote: "If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old."
Sofia Vergara is easily one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood today despite many starlets being almost half her age. The 40-year-old Modern Family star's over-the-top sassy personality only adds to her her already outrageous sex appeal. Don't let her exotic charm and Colombian accent fool you, though. Her acting skills are right there with the best of them. With multiple Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, its only a matter of time before she brings home the W.
Tina Fey
Funniest Role: Liz Lemon on 30 Rock
Memorable Quote: “To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.”
Tina Fey may be the closest we've come to a Comedy God. Fey has seen success in every form—from doing improv at Second City Theatre, to becoming head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor on SNL and writing the now-classic Mean Girls, to numerous Emmy wins for starring and creating 30 Rock. Oh, and she's also a bestselling author for her book Bossypants. She's even sexy and hilarious when she gets drunk with Jon Hamm after the Emmys and yells at the paparrazi, "This is what it looks like when New York gets drunk."
Emma Stone
Funniest Role: Olive in Easy A (2010)
Memorable Quote: “I think I was drawn to comedy originally because when I was really young, by the time I was eight I had seen movies like The Jerk, Animal House, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles with my dad, and I knew them by heart, I loved them and my dad loved them, and we would laugh together, and I would think, ‘This is love.’ I just wanted to make people feel like that.”
It's impossible to find someone who hates Emma Stone. She's hilarious, she's charming, she's smart, and she's in some of the best movies we've seen about zombies and school slut shamings in a long time. As if her smokey voice wasn't sexy enough, she can also tell Ryan Gosling off about his ridiculous photoshopped bod. We have fellow hot funny girl, Gilda Radner, to thank for that; her old SNL sketches helped draw Stone towards to comedy. If not for Radner and Steve Martin, we'd just have another hot red head on our hands.