Best comedic role for an actress?

[Joe Fields]

I would say Marissa Tomei, in 'My Cousin Vinnie.'

What say you. What's your favorite?:toast:

[NYCGirl]

1. My favorite — Betty Hutton in "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek"

Also one of the funniest movies EVER made.

[mitchum]

31. Sturges was it, wasn't he?

[Ptah]

2. Katharine Hepburn - Adam's Rib

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041090/

Might not be the best, but this performance should not be forgotten.

[Joe Fields]

3. She was priceless. I love Miss Hepburn. She's a treasure!

I also loved her in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and I love the way she played off against John Wayne in Rooster Cogburn.

[BarenakedLady]

21. That was a good scene

Spencer Tracy ad libed during it mentioning her Bryn Mawr attitude. Hehe.

I'm currently rewatching all the KH movies I own, in order (yes, I know I'm a geek. LoL).

[EFerrari]

38. "Bringing up Baby" -- "I've got my head, I've lost my leopard!"

[mitchum]

4. Barbara Stanwyck in "The Lady Eve"

[NYCGirl]

8. Great choice! And I'll add Jean Arthur in "The More the Merrier" NT

[cemaphonic]

10. Mine too

[mitchum]

32. You have good taste :)

[idgiehkt]

5. very good choice

I loved Terri Garr in Tootsie, she was fantastic in that movie. I like Sandra Bullock when she does comedy, she is funny too. Cameron Diaz was good in "My Best Friend's wedding". You know, I am realizing as I type this that I don't know what to put, I must not watch too many funny movies.

My favorite is Parker Posey, in both Dazed and Confused, and the Meg Ryan movie she is in where she plays Tom Hanks girlfriend, it might be called 'You've Got Mail".

[Robeson]

6. Madeline Kahn in many roles....

...What's Up Doc, Paper Moon, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, etc., etc., etc....

She was a pro at comedy.

[Adsos Letter]

7. Beat me to it...

also loved her in "Clue":

"Yes, I did it, I killed Yvette. I hated her so much...that...it...it...flam-flames. Flames on the side of my face...heathing...breathle-, heathing breaths, heathing breath...".

Gone way too soon... :cry:

[Robeson]

9. Indeed...

...gone way too soon...:-(

[Bombtrack]

11. Carmen Electra in...

[Connonym]

13. I just watched that the other night

the kids wanted to see it again. I got a nice nap.

[begin_within]

12. A tidbit about Marisa Tomei...

My friend worked for Dreamworks for several years, as a game programmer in the video game division, and saw a continuous parade of celebrities come through theor offices during his time there. He said that Marisa Tomei was there not too long after her Oscar win for "My Cousin Vinny," and that she was a pompous, pretentious primadonna, even in a working situation where there was no point in being that way, because nobody really cared, everyone was just doing their job and were not screaming, doting fans or paparazzi or anything. He thought the way she acted was silly and inappropriate. He also said that Steven Spielberg was very down-to-earth and easy to work with, in his expierence anyway.

[Joe Fields]

14. Okay, she's off my list. Plan B: Madeline Kahn...

in Blazing Saddles. (I still love Marisa Tomei's character in My Cousin Vinnie...)

[begin_within]

16. I think she did deserve her Oscar for that. And she was also good in that one with

Robert Downey Jr, I can't remember the name of that movie, but part of it took place in Italy. I'm just relaying what someone told me about her personality in "real life."

[jobycom]

41. Every actress has a story like that about her.

Someone always knows someone who knows that some woman is a primadonna, or a loose woman, or something negative. It might be so, it might not be, but I've quit judging people on things I haven't personally observed or experienced.

Just stating an observation, not coming down on you or questioning your friend. :)

[NoGOPZone]

15. Elizabeth Berkeley in Showgirls

Admit it, that movie was hilarious.

[hellbound-liberal]

17. Cher in Moonstruck is my first choice

Though I also really liked Lily Tomlin in All of Me and, of course, Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstein.

[steelemagnolia]

19. Wow, Irk, Those would be my choices too + one more

Whoppi Goldberg in Ghost

[EFerrari]

40. There were no bad parts in Moonstruck. Great script.

I think "Crimes of the Heart" had four good comedic roles for women, even if Diane Keaton's southern accent kept going in and out.

"But, Babe! He's fifteen!"
"Oh, he's taller now."

:rofl:

[rubberducky]

18. Funny Girl??

[MrScorpio]

20. Babs in What's Up Doc?

I've always view that movie through the prism of a live action Warner Bros cartoon, with Babs as Bugs Bunny and Ryan as a Porky Pig



Pretty funny when you look at it like that

[steelemagnolia]

23. Babs in Anything! n/t

[WinkyDink]

22. Jack Lemmon as "Daphne".

"Some Like It Hot".

[Joe Fields]

24. that was a laugh riot!

:toast:

[WinkyDink]

26. Hee! Check it out:

[CBHagman]

25. I couldn't pick just one!

Judy Davis and Glynis Johns in The Ref. :rofl:

Jean Arthur in The Talk of the Town and The More the Merrier.

Katharine Hepburn in Bringing up Baby and The Philadelphia Story.

And I must give a special mention to Natalie Portman and Rosie O'Donnell in Beautiful Girls. They are a hoot, especially O'Donnell. "You guys, as a gender, have to get a grip."

Oh, and everyone in Young Frankenstein. :rofl:

Hey, Chris Hitchens! Women ARE funny, you ghastly old misanthrope.

[ChoralScholar]

27. Jeanane Garofalo in 'The Truth About Cats and Dogs'

and also Rosario Dawson in 'Clerks II'

[quiet.american]

28. Hmn -- Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday. :) n/t

[DerekG]

29. Jamie Lee Curtis in "A Fish Called Wanda"

Only Curtis could steal a movie from three of the most brilliant comedic talents alive. And that's precisely what she did.

Besides Joan Cusack, I can't recall a more vibrant actress.

[CBHagman]

36. Good one.

JLC's criminally underrated.

[u4ic]

30. Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing

Eleanor of Aquitaine from The Lion in Winter
Shirley Valentine

[IntravenousDemilo]

33. Jean Hagen in "Singin' in the Rain" or Judy Holliday in "Born Yesterday" n/m

[Zavulon]

34. Is this movies only?

If not, I'd nominate Shelly Long for her performance in Cheers.

[Auggie]

35. How about Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine?

[Zavulon]

43. Great, but I'd still give her second place.

Shelly (Shelley?) Long was just amazing.

[Divameow77]

37. Carole Kane

in The Princess Bride, short but funny. Maybe not the best put popped in my mind first.

Joan Cusack in most of her movies, but especially Runaway Bride and In & Out.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

39. Or Carol Kane in "Scrooged"

[jobycom]

42. Ellen Degeneres in "Finding Nemo."

Yeah, it was animated, but her vocal performance was one for the ages.

[judaspriestess]

44. Although not the best role i like Christina Applegate

in Anchor Man