Outstanding Performance By A Funny Female Actor In A Comedy Series

For Love & Basketball, she won three awards in 2001, Best Actress award from BET Award and Black Reel Award and Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Award from NAACP Image Award. She again won Best Actress Award in Black Reel Award for Out of Time in 2004. For A Raisin Sun, she won Best Female Lead Award from Theatre World Award in the same year.

She even has her on star on the walk of fame. (IMDB) Her most recent work is for her new show, Betty Whites, off their rockers. In 2012, 2013, 2014 she was nominated for an emmy over the show. She was nominated in the category of best reality or reality-competition program. She was also nominated many times for the award best supporting actress in a comedy

In today’s entertainment industry, whether it be books, films, advertisements, or television shows, white people are depicted terribly. Likewise, in her essay, Judith Ortiz Cofer tells of her struggles of being a Puerto Rican woman. Men sing songs to her, like “La Bamba” or “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina,” just because she is Hispanic. They think she is promiscuous based on the way that she dresses, but it is really just because it is hot in Puerto Rico.

Lena Waithe Makes Emmy History as First African-American Woman to Win for Best Comedy Writing

Singer/actress Lena Horne's primary occupation was nightclub entertaining, a profession she pursued successfully around the world for more than 60 years, from the 1930s to the 1990s. In conjunction with her club work, she also maintained a recording career that stretched from 1936 to 2000 and brought her three Grammys, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989; she appeared in 16 feature films and several shorts between 1938 and 1978; she performed occasionally on Broadway, including in her own Tony-winning one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music in 1981-1982; and she sang and acted on radio and television. Adding to the challenge of maintaining such a career was her position as an African-American facing discrimination

“Mean Girls” has produced a fan cult like following. It also fully portrays the real struggles of High School. This pure classic can be fully understood by all age groups. Tina Fey used Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman as the basis for this outrageous comedy. Not only has it become a social icon that fully represents literally archetype such as, the queen bee, loss of innocence, and the outcast. The Settings played a huge part in the “close to home’ factor and the two major locations were the high school and the dance.

Comedian Natasha Leggero was booed by the audience on Conan O’Brien’s talk show after she called abortion “cool” and said it was alright to undergo the procedure on every Jewish holiday.

Another reason she deserves to be honored is she was in the Egot club. There are only 12 in this club. She's in this club because she won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. According to Cat Buckley, The timeless legend was awarded the Emmy, Grammy,

If I were to ask you to think of a person that is best described as the funniest and most ridiculous person in the film industry, I assure you that many people would immediately think of Will Ferrell. Ferrell has filled hilarious roles such as Buddy the Elf, Ricky Bobby, Ron Burgundy and many others. He has blown away Saturday Night Live with some of the best ratings in history. He has also developed into one of Hollywood’s funniest and highest paid comical actors. Will Ferrell is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer.

In 1959, at the Golden Globe Awards, one of her films got her the award for “Best Actress in a Comedy.” The last film she was able to complete was “The Misfits” in 1961.

In 2015 Wendy Williams was nominated at the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host and the show itself was nominated for Outstanding Talk

“…by the end tears are as near as laughter”. Compare both playwrights’ juxtaposition of comedy and tragedy in The History Boys and Translations. Comedy, defined to be “a play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity.” The juxtaposition of comedy and tragedy in The History Boys is more prominent than the highlighted tragic aspects, alongside the occasional glimpse of comedy in Friel’s Translations.

Ella earned many awards throughout the many years she was a singer. She received her first Grammy in 1958, for best female vocal performance. Not only at that Grammys shows was she awarded her first grammy she also became the first African American female to win a award. Along with the many Grammy she won, she also sold over 40 millions copies. Over her lifetime she recorded over 200 albums and about 2,000 songs. She was also awarded the image award for lifetime achievement and the presidential medal of freedom and The Kennedy Center for performing arts medal of honor. One of the highest honors she received was from president Ronald Reagan, The National Medal of art and the first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award which was later named after Ella. Most people do not know that Ella did not always want to

As far as awards go, she's been nominated for several. Sophia was nominated for two Academy Awards with one of them being a win, which was a great achievement for her. "Loren won the Best Actress Academy Award for the film Two Women in 1961 and an Academy Honorary Award in 1991" (Sophia Loren Biography). Her accomplishment was special because she was the first woman to win for a foreign film. Also, many people see her as only a wonderful actress, but her achievements span far from the screen.

Amy Poehler and Jimmy Fallon dared to play the anxious game Truth or Truth at The Tonight Show on Wednesday.