Amy Poehler Biography (1971-)

Small, bleach-blonde and crackling with energy, Amy Poehler is an actress whose sketch comedy talents took her from Saturday Night Live to feature films like Baby Mama (2008). Poehler took her comedy experience after Boston College (1993) to Chicago, where she worked in comedy clubs doing improvisation. She and a few colleagues went to New York in 1996…

Alex Borstein Biography (1971-)

Best known for her roles as the outrageous Mrs. Swan on MADtv and devoted wife Lois on the hit Fox series Family Guy, comedic female talent Alex Borstein has been keeping busy on screens both large and small ever since appearing in a handful of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers in the mid-’90s. Born in Highland Park, Chicago, and…

Rachael Harris Biography (1968-)

Comedic blonde actress Rachael Harris has found plenty of ways to make audiences laugh, whether it meant commenting on pop culture for VH1′s I Love the ’80s or appearing in quirky commercials for Quaker rice cakes. A veteran of the Los Angeles improve troupe the Groundlings, Harris transitioned to the screen as a correspondent for the popular news-parody…

Whoopi Goldberg Biography ( 1955 – )

Actress, comedienne, TV host, human rights advocate. Born Caryn Elaine Johnson on November 13, 1949 (some sources say 1950 or 1955), in New York City. Goldberg and her younger brother Clyde were raised by their mother Emma in a housing project in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.

Goldberg’s father abandoned the family, and her single mother worked at…

Carol Burnett Biography (1933-)

From 1967 to 1978 Carol Burnett hosted one of the most popular shows on television, The Carol Burnett Show. A “variety hour” that was mostly comedy, the show featured the redheaded and rubber-faced Burnett in slapstick skits and movie parodies with regular cast members Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner and (later) Tim Conway. Burnett was a comedy…