Five Favorite Comedic Actresses

This might sound like a weirdly specific post, but i am a real fan of female driven comedies, and i find that on the whole women in comedy tend to be far more obnoxious than men. I simply loathe the "frat pack" school of comedy, and i feel that Adam Sandler is the biggest insult to comedy and cinema since Gigli. Female led comedies tend to have far more subtlety than those led by males, and particularly in television female driven comedies beat male comedies two-to-one. Just to clarify i will also not be including musicals (mainly because i will probably do a separate post on this at some point). The following are five performances i feel to be particularly scene stealing.

• Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids : Rightly nominated for an Oscar for her performance, Melissa McCarthy is fantastic as the brash, loud, uninhibited Megan, Bridesmaids succedes largely due to her performance, and her bathroom spewing scene aside, McCarthy manages to concoct a character who is far from two dimensional, and who has a real heart beneath the brash one liners.
  

• Rebel Wilson - Pitch Perfect : This is a pretty fantastic film, and again Rebel Wilson is one of the best things about it, her role was largely improvised, and if Wilson was introduced in Bridesmaids, in Pitch Perfect a star is born. Wilson plays Fat Amy, an Australian expatriot studying in the United States specializing in mermaid dancing and horizontal running, Wilson gives a bravura performance featuring the now iconic; "I'm gonna finish him like a cheesecake!".
  

• Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada: Who knew that acclaimed thespian Meryl Streep was also funny? This performance is not only witty and funny but also clever, reportedly the original character is based on vogue editor Anna Wintour, but Streep is smart enough to distance Miranda Priestly from Wintour in look and demeanour. By changing the characters appearance and making her an american, Streep crafts a character with a chilly tone and an iconic catchphrase; "that's all...".
  

• Renee Zellweger - Bridget Jones Diary: Here Zellweger is given a virtually impossible task, taking such an iconic literary creation and recreating it on screen, particularly for an american, Renee Zellweger accomplishes this task with surprising elegance. Her slightly posh english accent is perfectly on point and she successfully carries the entire emotional weight of the film. The scene in which Jones searches for tuna is particularly genius, where the fuck is the fucking tuna? 
  

• Reese Witherspoon -Legally Blonde : I love this film, and it is majorly due to Witherspoon's performance, somehow her dumb-blonde persona is really rather smart, and the film manages to be witty and intelligent, Reese Witherspoon embraces her character, and she is sweet and innocent.