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The Daily Show can keep adding Corddrys left and right, but for our money, Hodgman is the latest in the show's long line of great correspondents. He's perhaps best known as the nerdy personified PC in the Apple ads, but his book,
Lightening up the dark HBO western Deadwood as pathetically wimpy hotel owner and de facto mayor E.B. Farnum, Sanderson brings a comedic edge to what is primarily a dramatic show. Though he was previously best known as "that actor who I recognize from something I saw, but I don't remember what it was," Sanderson' turn as the inept, scheming Farnum is well worth keeping an eye out for.
13. Andy Samberg & the Lonely Island Guys
An Internet sketch group that made good, Lonely Island is probably best known for giving rise to Andy Samberg, whose "Lazy Sunday" short revitalized a sagging
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12. Rainn Wilson
As The Office' hyperactive "Assistant to the Regional Manager," Wilson has managed to steal more than his share of scenes from the master scene-stealer himself, Steve Carell. The funniest, yet saddest, part of the show is that everyone who's ever held a day job knows (and loathes) someone like Wilson's character.11. Jimmy Kimmel
In the comedy world, it takes a lot to make enough of a name for yourself that you're known as something other than "Sarah Silverman' boyfriend," but with ingenious bits like "Unnecessary Censorship," Kimmel has shown that he has the chops on his ABC late night talk show. It's even rumored that
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10. Ricky Gervais
This Brit famously created and starred in the original The Office, and now executive produces NBC's take on the show. His latest series, HBO's Extras, follows an out-of-work actor (Gervais) whose failure to land big roles is obviously (to him) the result of misfortune. If uncomfortable situations were an art form, Gervais would be Monet.
9. Opie & Anthony
The morning DJ world is usually the last refuge of old high school jocks who call themselves "Mad Dog" and find nothing funnier than car horn sounds and nothing more awesome than Def Leppard. But Opie (Greg Hughes) and Anthony (Anthony Cumia)-who recently returned to terrestrial radio after involuntarily leaving it for satellite TK years ago- have a different approach: actually being entertaining. One of their best moments was an on-air yelling match between film critic Joel Siegel and director Kevin Smith.
You're probably asking yourself who the hell Adam McKay is. He's the guy who co-wrote and directed 2004's Anchorman and this year's Talladega Nights and helps make Will Ferrell so damn funny. Together, they're a lethal combination (assuming you're highly allergic to really funny movies). Talladega's trailer contained more genuine laughs than most feature-length comedies. (We're looking at you, You, Me & Dupree.)
What do you do when you've outgrown SNL, where you broke into the old boys' club enough to become the first female head writer in the show's history? If you're Fey, you start up a new show based largely on that experience. The show,
If your knowledge of Green is limited to his cameo work as Dr. Evil's son in the Austin Powers movies, then you don't know what you're missing. If your knowledge of Senreich goes in any way beyond the duo' current project, Robot Chicken, then you're probably his mom (in which case, thanks for reading, Mrs. Senreich!). The pair' stop-motion animation show bolsters Adult Swim's lineup with hilarious send-ups of pop culture, consistently-and lovingly-trashing childhood TV memories and never thinking twice about tackling issues like cancer, animal abuse or rampant addiction.
Piven's work as Ari Gold on Entourage has earned him a reprieve from his earlier work on Grace Under Fire and Ellen. Hey, a man's gotta eat, and if a few ill-advised career moves led to his current phenomenal job of playing agent-with-an-attitude Gold, then so much the better. Early on, Piven showed off his comedic chops in PCU and Old School, and now shows no signs of looking back. Playing someone who would rather kick his own mother in the throat than waste time on an unimportant meeting, it appears the well-traveled actor has finally found his niche.
Before he became a smarmy, pompous
Proving that one doesn't have to be hot to be a leading man, Carell has made a name for himself by being unattractive, unappealing and-as the boorish Michael Scott in the American version of The Office-often downright unlikable. As the boss of a Scranton, PA paper supply company, Scott' office etiquette is as atrocious as the jokes he tells. The biggest testament to Carell' know-how is that, at the end of every episode, you still feel for his clumsy, inept character. 
In a twist sure to turn the comedy world on its head, it seems the British are a pretty funny bunch. Baron Cohen rose to prominence on
How do you make the concept of a pudgy, mustachioed shirtless man in tights commercially viable? Well, it certainly helps to have Black as the aforementioned shirtless man. The star infuses his trademark frenetic energy into all of his roles, including his upcoming return as a rock god in
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