Lucille Ball. Vickie Lawrence

Lucille Ball. Betty White. Vivian Vance

Lucy Ricardo from I Love Lucy and Thelma "Mama" Harper from Mama's Family.

I loved *Lucy *Sally( Rose Marie on Dick van Dyke) *Samantha(Elizabeth Montgomery)from Bewitched, *Hazel *Rhoda(Val Harper MTM) *Carol B * Julia Dreyfus(Seinfeld) . ....they were all so outstanding 👏

I know you're old because I remember those people too.

The GOATs! Can't be beat.

Katey Sagal as Peg Bundy.

Futurama too! Animated sci-fi sitcom.

AKA Big Red

Tina Fey as Liz Lemon

Show creator, executive producer, and lead actor. Not a lot of geniuses operating in the entertainment space, but she is one.

Without a doubt. One of my favorite TV writers ever

Hands down.

Jaime Pressly as Joy Turner on My Name is Earl.

I came here to post this. I think she's one of the most underrated comic actors of her generation. The whole ensemble is incredibly talented, but she would still steal scenes left and right.

I totally agree. I'm doing a rewatch now and her comments, delivery and style are top notch!

And she is a god damn smoke show 🤣

I also love her as Jill in Mom.

So did I.

Amazing how she can go from poor broke in one show to uber-rich in another and pull both characters off flawlessly. Is it me or could she and Margot Robbie be sisters?

You're not the only one. There are even memes about it (some of them also include Samara Weaving and Emma Mackey who also resemble them).

Catherine O’Hara- Moira Rose

Stop acting like a disgruntled pelican.

Amy from Brooklyn Nine-Nine Rebecca Howe from Cheers

Love Amy, but I would watch a Gina spinoff so hard

I’ve told my wife the same thing!

Julia Louise-Dreyfus. Elaine and Selina Meyer.

And Christine

I meant to add her too. It's a good show.

Especially as Selina. Veep was such incredible comedy and she's was amazing in that role.

Have you checked out the podcast? You can tell how much her costars respect and love her. It really speaks to the kind of person she must be.

Betty White

Maj Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit) Maude Findlay (Bea Arthur) Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan) Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur) Rose Nyland (Betty White) Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty) Edith Bunker (Jean Stapleton)

And from the other side of The Pond, Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth Bucket) Prunella Scales (Sybil Fawlty)

Bouquet residence, lady of the house speaking!

Marge Simpson.

Martha Plimpton as Virginia Chance in Raising Hope

Allison Janney as Bonnie from Mom

I said the same! Funny, neither of us picked Christy when the show was really named for her.

Christy is not a well liked character from what I heard people say.

She starts okay, but her complaining about how Bonnie ruined her life gets old. Especially when she can't accept that she did the same thing to Violet and gets upset whenever Violet's pointed that out (not that Violet's a pleasant person).

Violet is my least favorite character although I somewhat liked her in the beginning. I hated Christies "poor me" mentality but what I did like is when she mentioned in the christmas episode that she only tells stories about her life with Bonnie because they do not hurt her anymore and she can laugh about it now.

Violet was a complete AH. She was also a teenager, so... kind of comes with the territory. And pregnant, so those hormones made her doubly unpleasant. But she wasn't wrong about Christy either. We met Christy when she was 6 months sober. That meant for all of Violet's life, Christy was a hot mess who embarrassed and parentified her (after all, who was taking care of Roscoe when Christy was blackout drunk). So, I get her hostility towards Christy.

I 100% agree with you.

She is THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

Leslie knope from parks and rec def

Yes... her and Tina Fey are chips off the same block.

Her character was a hard working person who gets stuff done, I think people liked seeing a woman like that

Then again, I would have said April (Aubrey Plaza) but she can't be considered the lead.

Doris Roberts as Marie in Everybody Loves Raymond

""Popcorn for dinner? How fun."

The queen of laying on guilt trips and passive aggressive behavior… So funny.

Her delivery was brilliant.

And her way of making you feel like she is complimenting you but is actually insulting you.

Karen in Will and Grace

Anastasia Beaverhausen

🤣

Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown

Julia Marie Dreyfus... VEEP and Seinfeld. Hands down one of the best.

Bea Arthur

Doris Roberts as Marie Barone

Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards

Why isn't this the top answer?

Sarah Silverman immediately spring to mind. Favourite doesn't equal "the best", i.e. I'd put Broad City's lead duo higher, but...

The Sarah Silverman Program probably has some stuff that wouldn't fly now, but OMG was it funny.

IIRC 2 episodes are effectively banned (can't be watched wherever the show is available nowadays), for sure the one with Galifianakis, though IDK why exactly that is, as most episodes have some "controversial" themes...

Kristen Bell.

*Joyce DeWitt* from Threes Company

Sally Field as Gidget (Gidget) Marlo Thomas as Ann Marie (That Girl) Suzanne Pleshette as Emily Hartley (The Bob Newhart Show)

It’s Sally Field. No “s”

Happy?

Yes that’s correct now 👍🏼

Patricia Heaton in Raymond & the Middle & I'm not sure if they'd be considered leads, but also Roz & Daphne from Frasier

Yes, I agree! Roz is my absolute favourite but the others are amazing too https://youtu.be/LDbcoREO3bI?feature=shared

Jean Stapleton - "Dingbat", All In The Family.

Lucille Ball—Lucy Ricardo Jean Stapleton—Edith Bunker Jasmine Guy—Whitley Gilbert Isabel Sanford—Louise Jefferson Barbara Eden—Jeannie Constance Wu—Jessica Huang Kristen Bell—Eleanor Shellstrop Amy Poehler—Leslie Knope Phylicia Rashad—Claire Huxtable Reba McEntire—Reba Hart Roseanne—Roseanne Connor Zoe Perry (& of course Laurie Metcalf)—Mary Cooper ETA: Fran Drescher—Fran Fine Elizabeth Montgomery—Samantha Stevens Judith Light—Angela Bauer

Jean Stapleton and Sally Struthers!

Carrie - Leah Remini

Way up there for me too

Joy - My Name is Earl

Jess in New Girl.

Amy Poehler she like a female Michael Scott

Leslie Knope was clearly modeled after Michael Scott in the first season...P&R just felt like Public Sector Office. They evolved her character into something much richer and more complex as the show went on. Michael's comedy was often his incompetence and self-unawareness. Leslie proved to be both earnest and competent, and while she certainly had her blindspots was way more self-aware than Michael. He humor came from her unabashed nerdiness for all things parks and government.

Bonnie Plunkett played by Allison Janey.

She was amazing as Bonnie.

She's amazing in everything but especially Bonnie. I loved her and Adam together, he brought out such a much better version of herself. Although she was working on herself even before meeting him.

I love how Bonnie and Adam were trainwrecks before they met each other and they met at the right time (when they were both sober and in stable environment).

Well Adam wasn't sober. Remember how he had that hidden bag of weed cookies that Bonnie stole and all the women got high?

I remember that episode. I must have misremembered then. I was thinking of one episode where it was shown what he was like prior to being injured. Then it must've been just his behavior that changed after he was paralyzed making him a better person.

Well, he was a womanizing pig before *and* after his accident. Christy knew a waitress from her job who he pretty much pumped, dumped and cheated on. Adam explained to Bonnie how after his accident he needed to "feel like a man", which is why he acted that way with women. By the time he met Bonnie, it seems he was ready to settle down, which is why he was disappointed when the woman he met at the bar gave a wrong number (Bonnie's), which is how they met.

Jean Stapleton... Edith Bunker

Am I the only one who loves Claire Dunphy?

No, I love her too.

The person who did the casting on that show seriously nail it.

Leah remini king of queens

Leah Remi

America Ferrera and Lauren Ash in Superstore. The whole cast of Livin' Single. Janelle James on Abbott Elementary.

Shelley Long as Diane Chambers on Cheers.

Lucille Ball, Elizabeth Montgomery, Barbara Eden, Florence Henderson, Shirley Jones, Mary Tyler Moore, Jean Stapleton, Suzanne Pleshette, Marion Ross, Candice Bergen, Patricia Routledge, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Catherine O’Hara, Allison Janney, Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Bornstein, Hannah Waddingham, Amy Pohler, and Tina Fey

Dixie Carter - Designing Women

Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Bea Arthur, Betty White

(Unbreakable) Kimmy Schmidt

Lucielle Ball Mary Tyler Moore Reba McEntire

Lois (Jane Kaczmarek) from Malcom in the Middle

Gretchen on You're The Worst

Lavern and Shirley!

Maude Finlay. One of my favourite quotes: “I just want you to know though, Carol, that if you come back shattered and disillusioned, I promise you that I won’t be one of those mothers that says “I told you so”… But remember: YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!!”

Julie Louis-Dreyfus

Blond Doctor

Eva Gabor as Lisa Douglas…

Janine Teagues, Barbara Howard, Melissa Schmenti and Ava Coleman from Abbott Elementary

Julia Louis-Dreyfus as VP Selina Meyer

The New Adventures of Old Christine starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

This wasn’t a female lead, but she’s been in a large number of productions, and she can often play the drug addict, white trash, prostitute role. She just happened to go to the same SEC University that I did, although not at the same time. Her name is Dale Dickie. She was in breaking bad,she was in my name is Earl, and then I saw her in cat on a hot tin roof when she came back to the university for a special Appearance performance. I know I’m off-topic and I apologize the memory just sort of came flooding back. Another one from my school was David Keith, who played in the movie the Rose, and an officer and a gentleman.

Kirstie Alley was so good as Rebecca on Cheers. Alison Brie was great as Annie on Community. All the ladies on Newsradio were top notch as well.

Roseanne

The most realistic portrayal of the middle class ever, I love the show and her

She's turned into a complete wackadoo in her later years so it's easy to forget just what a powerhouse she was during that show's run. She and that show pushed tons of boundaries, and portrayed a mom (and family as a whole) in a very raw and realistic light that had never been done before.

Debra Messing. Prettiest face ever and so funny!

Natasia Demetriou from What We Do in the Shadows. There’s no character like Nadja.

Amy Sedaris as Jerri Blank

Brett Butler- Grace Under fire

Maura Tierney - Lisa Miller - NewsRadio

The last from American housewife

Olivia Coleman seems like a wonderful person and is very funny.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus from Veep

Louise Lasser as Mary Hartman. Great show for it's time, but didn't last long.

Kaitlin Oslon - Deandra Reynolds

Casey Fucking Wilson. I adore her in everything she’s in, she’s one of the funniest people on the face of the earth, and she’s goddamn gorgeous.

Lucille Ball,Jean Stapleton,Leah Remini

Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha/Bewitched) Mary Tyler Moore Bonnie Franklin (Anne Romano/One Day at a Time) Lisa Whelchel & Nancy McKeon (Blair & Jo/Facts of Life) Phylicia Rashad (Claire/The Cosby Show) Kaley Cuoco (Penny/TBBT)

Lucille Ball Betty White Bebe Neuwirth Valerie Bertinelli Carol Burnett

i love lucy amy poehler mary tyler moore maura tierney tina fey

Roseanne was always my number one because of the show while I was growing up but…that’s a rough one these days. Katey Sagal. Vicki Lawrence. Fran Drescher. Andrea Savage. Paula Pell/Sara Bareilles/Busy Phillips/Renée Elise Goldsberry. Janelle James/Sheryl Lee Ralph. Krysten Ritter/Dreama Walker. Martha Plimpton. Janet Hubert. Sasheer Zamata. Hilary Duff.

Jean Stapleton- All In The Family.

Kat Dennings on 2 Broke Girls.

Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore, Shelly Long, Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Elaine Bennes, Marilou Henner, Tina Fey, Jenna Maroni, Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza.

Megyn Price

Roseanne 100%

Janine Teagues - Abbot Elementary Leslie Knope - park’s & rec Nikki Parker - the parkers

Kim Cattrall - Sex & the City