The mysterious Almost Famous cracks me up, and has the distinction of being the only spotlighted reader who likens her sense of humor to Don Rickles! Haha. To find out about her, read more
When I think of Margaret Cho, I think of her hilarious standup act in flashes of representative scenes. There's Margaret telling everyone how weird it is to be an Asian American on an airplane with a flight attendant offering you Asian chicken salad. ("That is not the salad of my people!") There's Margaret imitating her mother's cute Korean accent and puzzling over gay men and their, uh, interest in "the ass."
Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson is well-known for her send-up of the ditzy blonde. With a tiny voice and goofy antics, Victoria became famous on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show where she performed stand-up while variously on a balance beam, doing handstands, and playing the ukulele. She went on to perform on six seasons of Saturday Night Live, working with the likes of Mike Myers, Phil Hartman, and Chris Farley.
I have a newfound respect for Coldplay. Here we find Chris Martin and the boys singing "The Hardest Part" for some Lifetime TV program in Miami in front a bunch of cute, retired silver-haired ladies. But that's not the "hardest part" of their gig.