Phyllis Agatha Diller was a stand-up comedian, actor, novelist, singer, and visual artist most known for her unique stage presence, self-deprecating humor, crazy hair and costumes, and cackling laugh.

At the Purple Onion nightclub in San Francisco, Phyllis performed for the first time. In the history of comedy, she is the first female stand-up comedian. From 1966 through 1968, she had a successful television career thanks to her comic appearances on 'Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!,' 'Eight on the Lam,' and 'The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell.'

Diller gained her own show, 'The Phyllis Diller Show,' which afforded her the freedom to wear fright wigs and outlandish clothes. Her 'Fang' and cracking voice made her famous (Fang was the name of her fictional husband she used while doing stand-up comedy). She then voiced the character of 'Monster Mate' in the film 'Mad Monster Party,' as well as the character of 'Queen' in 'A Bug's Life.' With her achievements, she always has a place in the list of the best female comedians of all time.

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Joan Alexandra Molinsky, better known by her stage name Joan Rivers, was an American actress, comedian, producer, writer, and television host. She was known for her often contentious humorous demeanor, which was typically self-deprecating and sarcastic, particularly against celebrities and politicians. Many commentators regard her as a pioneer of women in comedy.

Rivers began her career at Greenwich Village comedy clubs alongside George Carlin, Woody Allen, and Richard Pryor. She became famous after appearing on The Tonight Show in 1965. Rivers' humorous style was created on the show, which was hosted by her mentor, Johnny Carson. Rivers became the first woman to host a late-night network television talk show in 1986, with her own competing program, The Late Show with Joan Rivers. She went on to host The Joan Rivers Show (1989–1993), for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host. She rose to prominence in the mid-1990s for her hilarious celebrity interviews on red carpet awards shows. Rivers authored 12 best-selling books and three LP comedy albums under her own name, in addition to marketing a line of jewelry and apparel on the QVC shopping channel.

Rivers was dubbed "quite perhaps the most naturally funny lady alive" by New York Times television critic Jack Gould in 1968. She was named sixth on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 50 greatest stand-up comedians of all time in 2017, and she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in October of the same year.

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Sarah Kate Silverman is an actor, comedian, and writer from the United States. Her comedy tackles social taboos and contentious issues such as racism, sexism, homophobia, politics, and religion, with her comic persona occasionally endorsing them in a satirical or deadpan manner. Her television work has earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Silverman was a writer and performer on Saturday Night Live, and she appeared in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program, which aired on Comedy Central from 2007 to 2010, and for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. In 2010, she published The Bedwetter, an autobiography. She also appeared in shows like Mr. Show and V.I.P., as well as films like Who's the Caboose? (1997), School of Rock (2003), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2014). (2018). She was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in the drama I Smile Back in 2015.

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Tina Fey is an actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright from the United States. She is most known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (1997–2006) and for creating the comedy series 30 Rock (2006–2013, 2020) and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2020). Fey is also known for her work in film, including Mean Girls (2004), Baby Mama (2008), Date Night (2010), Megamind (2010), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Sisters (2015), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016), Wine Country (2019), and Soul (2020).

Tina Fey began her career as a writer for Saturday Night Live, where she eventually became the first female head writer. During her TV hiatus, she was able to co-anchor the show's 25th season with Jimmy Fallon. She also has her own television show, '30 Rock,' which she created and stars in. This was partially based on her time on Saturday Night Live, where she portrayed Liz Lemon. She also performed and wrote in the teen film 'Mean Girls.'

Fey and Amy Poehler co-starred in the film 'Baby Mama.' Her portrayal of Sarah Palin won her an Emmy during the election season. She frequently portrayed individuals with humiliating junk food addictions or failed or embarrassing romances. She has received many awards, viz. one Emmy, three Golden Globes, four Screen Actors Guilds, and four Writers Guild of America awards.

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Amy Poehler is an actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director from the United States. She co-founded the improv comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade after studying improvisational theatre at Chicago's Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s. The group relocated to New York City in 1996, and in 1998, their act was turned into a half-hour sketch comedy series on Comedy Central. Poehler co-founded the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre with other members of the comedy troupe.

She joined the cast of NBC's sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live in 2001. She joined Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update as a co-anchor in 2004 and left in 2008 to play Leslie Knope in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. She's also done voice work for Shrek 3, Horton Hears a Who!, Free Birds, Inside Out, and the animated series The Mighty B!, which she also created. Welcome to Sweden, Broad City, Difficult People, Duncanville, Three Busy Debras, and Russian Doll all have Poehler as an executive producer. She played Eleanor in the live-action/CGI Alvin and the Chipmunks film franchise until 2015, when Kaley Cuoco took over.

Poehler was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in December 2015 for her contributions to television. In 2014, she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Musical or Comedy Series, and in 2012, she received a Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. For co-hosting Saturday Night Live, she and Tina Fey both won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2016.

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Kathleen Mary Griffin is an actress and comedian from the United States who has appeared in television comedy specials and recorded comedy albums. Griffin's reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List won Primetime Emmy Awards in 2007 and 2008. She has also appeared in films as a supporting character.

Griffin was born in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. She relocated to Los Angeles in 1978, where she studied theater at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and joined the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings. Griffin began performing stand-up comedy in the 1990s and appeared as a guest star on television shows such as NBC's Suddenly Susan (1996–2000).

Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List (2005–2010), a Bravo reality show, was a rating success for the network and garnered her two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality Program. Griffin has six comedy albums to his credit, all of which have gotten Grammy nominations. For Your Consideration (2008) was her first album, and it made her the first female comic to debut at the top of Billboard's Top Comedy Albums chart. Kathy Griffin's book, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin, was published in 2009. She won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 2014 after being nominated six years in a row.

Griffin has a number of HBO and Bravo standup comedy specials under his belt. She has recorded sixteen television specials for the latter network, breaking the Guinness World Record for the most televised television specials on any network. She was also the first comic to have four specials on television in the same year in 2011.

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Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson) is an American actress, comedian, author, and television personality. She is one of only 16 entertainers to receive the EGOT, which consists of an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award ("Oscar"), and a Tony Award. She was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2001.

Goldberg began her theater career in 1983 with her one-woman play Spook Show, which was later renamed Whoopi Goldberg and ran on Broadway from 1984 to 1985. For the recording of the concert, she received a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. Her breakthrough occurred in 1985, when she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her part as Celie, a mistreated woman in the Deep South, in Steven Spielberg's historical drama film The Color Purple. She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a second Golden Globe Award for her role as an eccentric clairvoyant in the romantic fantasy picture Ghost (1990).

Goldberg has appeared on Broadway in the revivals of Stephen Sondheim's musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. As a producer of the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie, she won a Tony Award. For the stage adaption of Sister Act, she received her third Tony Award nomination in 2011. (2011). Guinan was played by Goldberg in the science fiction programs Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988-1993) and Star Trek: Picard (1993). (2022). She has co-hosted and moderated the daytime chat show The View since 2007, winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host for her efforts. She has four times hosted the Academy Awards event.

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Chelsea Joy Handler is an actress, comedian, writer, television host, and producer from the United States. From 2007 to 2014, she hosted Chelsea, Lately on the E! Network, and in January 2016, she released a documentary series, Chelsea Does, on Netflix. Handler presented the Netflix chat show, Chelsea, from 2016 to 2017.

Chelsea began stand-up comedy and developed a signature style that included critical and scathing views on celebrities, her sex life and self-deprecating humor, bitter criticism, pop culture, and her love of vodka. In the year 2008, Vanity Fair named her one of the "Queens of Comedy."

Chelsea is the author of 3 books, ‘My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands’, and ‘Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea?’, and ‘Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang’, which took the first three spots on the New York Times Bestseller list. In 2012, Time named Handler one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual Time 100 list.

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Wanda Yvette Sykes is a stand-up comedian, actress, and writer from the United States. Wanda began her stand-up career in Washington, DC at a 'Coors Light Super Talent Showcase.' Many people were won over by her unusual voice, sassy manner, and honest judgments. On HBO's 'The Cris Rock Show,' she had written and performed. She also starred in Fox's 'Wanda at Large,' which she wrote, produced, and starred in. Wanda Sykes: Tongue Untied' and 'Wanda Does It' are Comedy Central specials that followed.

Sykes has also published a book called "Yeah I Said It," which is a compilation of amusing writings about life, current affairs, and family. Wanda is one of the funniest stand-up comedians, according to Entertainment Weekly's list of the 25 Funniest People in America. She was the only African-American woman to make Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time at number 70.

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Margaret Moran Cho is an actress, musician, and stand-up comedian from the United States. Her stand-up performances, in which she criticizes social and political issues, particularly those involving race and sexuality, have made her famous. She rocketed to fame after starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl (1994–95), and went on to become a well-known stand-up comedian in the years that followed.

Margaret Cho began making jokes at the age of 14 with her father, who made a livelihood producing joke books in Korea. Writing served as an escape for her from the bullying she experienced at school. All of her hard work paid off when she began performing professionally only two years later, at the age of sixteen. She won a contest to open for Jerry Seinfeld a few years later, which led to a prime-time special and instant success.

Cho's preferred themes to discuss on stage are political issues, social critiques, sexuality, and racism. She has also written two books, 'I'm the One That I Want' and 'I Have Decided to Stay and Fight.' She toured the country in 1999 with her off-Broadway one-woman show, "I'm The One That I Want," which was eventually turned into a book.

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Ellen Lee DeGeneres is a comedian, television personality, actor, writer, and producer from the United States. Ellen began her career performing stand-up comedy in small venues and coffee shops. Her humor stood out among her colleagues since it was neither vulgar nor harsh. Winning a competition opened up a whole new world for her. It led to more opportunities, including her debut on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.' In 1991, she was crowned 'Best Female Club Standup' by Comedy Awards, and in 1997 and 1998, she was named 'Entertainer of the Year' by Entertainment Weekly.

Later, she was cast in the ABC sitcom 'These Friends of Mine,' which was renamed 'Ellen' in 1994. Ellen obtained her own show, 'Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show,' in 2003, after some minor setbacks. This show earned 15 Emmy Awards in its first three seasons on the air, making it the first talk show in television history to win an Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Talk Show.' 'My Point... And I Do Have One and 'The Funny Thing Is...' are two of her books. After all her efforts, she is now considered one of the best female comedians of all time

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Maya Khabira Rudolph is an actress, comedian, and singer from the United States. She joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2000 and has since appeared in films such as 50 First Dates (2004), A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and Idiocracy (2006).

Maya debuted on Saturday Night Live in 2000 and is most recognized for her impersonations of fashion icons Donatella Versace and Christina Aguilera. She was rated number 20 on Entertainment Weekly's 'Funniest People in America' list in 2004. She has a strong vocal range and frequently employs it in her drawings. Her amazing ability to transform herself and her grasp of multiple accents enable her to perform a wide range of characters with minimal outfit changes.

Amanda Byram, Ananda Lewis, Barbra Streisand, Condoleezza Rice, Charo, Diana Ross, Ivanka Trump, Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Lucy Liu, Paris Hilton, Lisa Kudrow, Lisa Ling, Liza Minnelli, Tyra Banks, Tina Turner, and Vanessa Hudgens are just a handful of the celebrities Maya can emulate. Justin Guarini, Mario Vazquez, and Scott Joplin are among the masculine characters she has played. She is most recognized for her role on 'Wake Up, Wakefield!' as Megan.

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Whitney Ann Cummings is an actor, stand-up comedian, writer, director, producer, and podcaster from the United States.

Whitney began stand-up comedy at the age of 24, and in 2007, she was named one of Variety's Top Ten Comics to Watch.
Her audiences are captivated by her obscene topics. She's appeared on shows including "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien," "Comics Unleashed," "NESN's Comedy All-Stars," and many others. She has been on E'Chelsea !'s Lately' multiple times. She was named one of the 12 Comedy Rising Stars by Entertainment Weekly.

On Comedy Central Roasts of David Hasselhoff, Donald Trump, and Joan Rivers, Whitney amused the audience. Whitney is also the creator and star of the NBC sitcom "Whitney" and the co-creator of CBS's "2 Broke Girls."

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June Diane Raphael is an actress, comedian, and screenwriter from the United States. She has appeared in the television shows Burning Love, NTSF:SD:SUV::, and Grace and Frankie. Year One and Unfinished Business are among her notable cinematic roles, as is her 2013 Sundance feature Ass Backwards, which she co-wrote and starred in with her creative partner Casey Wilson. Along with Jason Mantzoukas and her husband Paul Scheer, she co-hosts the movie discussion podcast How Did This Get Made?

June started her comedy career as a writer and performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York and Los Angeles. Casey Wilson, whom she met in a clowning class at NYU, became a good companion. In 2005, their collaboration earned them the ECNY Award for 'Best Comedy Duo.' Her acting abilities led to appearances in films such as "Zodiac," "Bride Wars," and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."

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Sherri Shepherd is an actress, comedian, novelist, and television personality from the United States. In 1990, Sherri began her career as a stand-up comedian. In 2002, she earned the part of Ramona on ABC's 'Less Than Perfect.' She continued to perform at the Laugh Factory, Comedy Store, and the Improv on a regular basis. 'Permission Slips: Every Woman's Guide to Giving Herself a Break,' published in 2009, is her first book. Her sense of humour earned her a spot as a co-anchor on ABC's 'The View.'

Sherri also had guest appearances on 'Everybody Loves Raymond,' '30 Rock,' and 'Living Single.' 'Suddenly Susan,' 'The Jamie Foxx Show,' and 'Less Than Perfect' were among her many sitcoms. She refuses to forget her stand-up comedy beginnings, and continues to perform at venues such as The Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles.

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