Who are some awesome and hilarious female comedians?

Maria Bamford.

Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Ellen DeGeneres (check out her early standup).

Ellen DeGeneres is awesome. I sadly have no links, but her HBO specials were funny as all hell.

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Paula Poundstone, in spite of her issues, true or not, is very funny on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, I think.

I really enjoy Amy Sedaris, Kathy Griffin and Kathleen Madigan.

I really like Margaret Cho and Ellen DeGeneres.

In one of Ellen’s stand up performances, she paused to take a drink of water before getting to the punchline. After she took the drink, she said, “Excuse me, but my throat was kinda dry. I don’t know why, but this seems to be happening a lot ever since I started doing crack cocaine”. ;-0

Here’s some vintage Ellen before her eponymous TV series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG9YsjpZzSA

@MissAnthrope

Do you remember an episode of Sarah’s TV series where she throws her baby penis into the river, or something like that?

JilltheTooth is pretty funny.

Fran Drescher (although she doesn’t do standup, she’s one of the funniest and savviest ladies I’ve ever seen. She’s kind of like a modern day Lucille Ball, only sexier!)

Ellen DeGeneres. She talks about every day stuff in a hilarious, self effacing manner.

Wandy Sykes. Every day stuff, but she notices some of the nastier and more guy oriented stuff, but from a female perspective.

Julia Louis-Dreyfuss. She notices some of the odder stuff that you never even knew that you were thinking about until she brought it to your attention.

Chelsea Handler. Talks about somewhat raunchy, or outrageous or just plain weird sh*t in a very low key manner.

Margaret Cho. Talks about some really, really naughty sexual stuff that we all think about, but don’t want to mention in public, along with a lot of really funny melting pot culture types of subjects.

Kaley Cuoco (who plays Penny on The Big Bang Theory) is able to hold her own with a bunch of hilarious nerds, whist schooling them in the art of romance and boy/girl relationships, and using her past, humiliating relationships with douche bags as examples.

Roseanne Barr. She talks about regular every day stuff like going to the bathroom and dealing with your annoying inlaws and your ungrateful kids, whilst retaining he salt of the earth, blue collar roots (sometimes in low class, inappropriate or vulgar, but always funny ways, with a great heart).

Jenna Elfman. Very self effacing, but with wisdom beyond our men.

Conchata Ferrell (who plays Berta, the housekeeper on 2 and Half Men) is the Queen of one liners and zingers, especially how they apply to selfish, self absorbed, dumb, douchey, rich beyond their deserving dudes and their skid-marked, under-panted, potentially gay brothers, and dim-witted, oportunistic nephews.

Cloris Leachman She is nothing if not versatile. Some of her performances on the Mary Tyler Moor Show and classic left handed compliment humor and in the movie Young Frankenstein and High Anxiety, she was simply the epitome of the older, sexually charged matron, in the most hilarious Germanic manner as both Frau Drucher and Nurse Ratchett.

Madelaine Khan. Unconventional, super-sexy, ironic and varied as the nagging Bride of Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein, and Lily Von Shtupp a semi-charicature of Hedy Lamarr and Greta Garbo, and a sexually charged, advantage-taking Southern “lady” in Paper Moon

Bea Arthur From Maude to the Golden Girls, Bea Arthur was the biting, feminist, sweetheart, understanding, strong, East Coast gal who could be swooned and swept off her feet in one minute and giving your your due in the next minute. She was the Queen of the “glaring look.”

@Kardamom . . . neeeiiiggghhh

@Kardamom How the heck did I forget Fran Drescher?!

Joan Rivers.

Sarah Millican.

Amy G and she is HOT!

Janeane Garofalo is a personal favorite. Here is a clip of her doing an interview in Australia that shows her intelligence and her quick wit.

I love Sarah Millican, Shappi Khorsandi, Miranda Hart, French and Saunders (Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, together and seperately) and Victoria Wood.

I think she goes by Amy G? Anyway… she played America, the Beautiful… with a kazoo… from her vag… WIN!

@Leanne1986 Sarah is so funny, right up my street. We share accents as well, only her voice is slightly higher pitched.

@ucme I think she’s bloody brilliant. The amount of times I have actually cried with laughter when watching her stand-up.

@Leanne1986 Yeah the lass certainly hit’s the spot.

@Leanne1986 and @ucme Thx for the suggestion of Sarah Millican. I just watched this. I can see why you find her so funny.

@Pied_Pfeffer Err, that’s okay, but I linked that exact clip in my original answer up there ^^
Still, never mind eh? ;¬}

How could I forget.. Betty White! She is hysterical.

I like Jo Brand. It’s always a guaranteed good time when she guests on Graham Norton.

Sarah Silverman stars in all of my messiest wet dreams.

Another vote for Jo Brand.
One of very few that I can laugh out loud about.