Women in Comedy

Voice actress often appeared on “Match Game”…

Her viral videos led to her own comedy show on the VH1 cable TV channel.

A video tribute to Lucille Ball’s company and its TV shows

Mary Tyler Moore, the vivacious actress known best for roles on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. She was 80.

Caroline Aherne, an English comedian, actress, and writer, died of cancer July 2, 2016, at her home in Manchester, according to multiple news sources. She was 52.

The Mexican-born actress was known best for her co-star roles on the TV sitcoms “Dads” and “Go On.”

Before comedy pioneers Joan Rivers, Carol Burnette, and Lily Tomlin helped disprove the notion that women couldn’t be funny, another woman was cracking up audiences decades earlier: Imogene Coca.

She appeared in movies including “Fame” and “Reality Bites.”