# Funny and sexy at the same time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098 "2009-02-09T17:51:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/41 "2009-02-09T21:00:48Z")
The classic: [Mae West - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/42 "2009-02-09T21:38:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Missy Peregrym in _Reaper_. I have a girl crush on her. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/43 "2009-02-09T21:44:31Z")
What about Brooke Shields? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/44 "2009-02-09T21:59:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Linda Fiorentino in _Men in Black_. After seeing her in [the Last Seduction](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110308/), she can never be funny, or trusted, again. Man, she was good in that. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/45 "2009-02-09T22:06:01Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Megan Mullally on _Will & Grace_ (gets a pass on the abusive/abrasiveness, because it’s such an caricature it makes me think the actress must have a great sense of humor to play it so over-the-top) Also, IIRC, Karen’s abrasiveness – in the _Will & Grace_ universe – was very much a coping mechanism. After a few seasons, they’d show Karen letting her guard down from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![HolyFreakingMoly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ba0ec/32.png) [@HolyFreakingMoly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HolyFreakingMoly)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/46 "2009-02-09T22:13:34Z")
Hell, the Grace character in Will and Grace… “I just always imagined being proposed to while I was holding a bouquet of flowers, not my own ankles”… Had me rolling. ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/47 "2009-02-09T22:23:00Z")
I only saw two acts (on Youtube), but **Rita Rudner** was quite funny and quite the hottie back in the 1980’s. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/48 "2009-02-09T22:59:56Z")
How about Loni Anderson in “WKRP in Cincinnati?” We’ve been making our way through the Season One DVDs and she has a number of killer lines in that show while also being THE blonde bombshell on TV at the time (I think Farrah was pretty much gone from “Charlie’s Angels” when 'KRP hit the airwaves). ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/49 "2009-02-09T23:05:04Z")
Kristen Johnston as Sally Solomon on _3rd Rock From the Sun_. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/50 "2009-02-09T23:30:00Z")
I think I may have mentioned my desire for a Jon Stewart/Craig Ferguson sandwich, with me as the filling. 😃 Those two guys have not only the double whammy (good-looking and funny), but a triple-whammy - they’re smart as hell as well. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/51 "2009-02-10T03:53:37Z")
Jennifer Tilly! Allison Hannigan Tea Leoni Minnie Driver in “Good Will Hunting” Rosario Dawson in “Clerks 2” ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/52 "2009-02-10T04:00:28Z")
Sigourney Weaver in “Ghostbusters” and “Galaxy Quest”. ---
**Author:** ![Race\_Harley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Race\_Harley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Harley)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/53 "2009-02-10T04:50:56Z")
No one mentioned Barbara Eden in her prime? ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/54 "2009-02-10T05:51:26Z")
I think we’re focusing on women because you mostly focused on them in your OP, **Robot Arm**. I’ll second Maura Tierney and Vicki Lewis from _Newsradio_, but my goodness, how can one not mention Khandi Alexander as well? And I don’t even swing that way. Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow from _Friends_. (Courtney Cox doesn’t seem especially sexy to me, but I’d imagine she does to others.) Kate Hepburn in _The Philadelphia Story_ and _Stage Door_. Ginger Rogers in _Stage Door_. Young Eve Arden always played ‘best friend’ roles but I think she was quite striking. Seconding Bernadette Peters and Madeline Kahn and Teri Garr – the Mel Brooks trinity. 🙂 How about Felicity Huffman and Sabrina Lloyd in _Sports Night_? For those who remember older BBC shows, there’s Felicity Kendal in _Good Life / Good Neighbors_. (And some may find Penelope Keith dishy as well.) On the male side: James Stewart and Cary Grant, also from _The Philadelphia Story_. Grant was very funny in _Arsenic and Old Lace_ and _Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House_, too. Young Desi Arnaz was hella hot in ILL. Hugh Grant is deliciously funny in _Four Weddings…_. Alan Rickman brings droll humor to almost every role and I defy you to find five consecutive women on the intrawebs who don’t think he’s sexy, despite his non-traditional looks. Ted Danson was pretty yummy back in _Cheers_. Of course, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Steve Carrell, Ed Helms, Craig Ferguson. John Kraszinski. Rowan Atkinson in the second and third seasons of _Black Adder_. Hugh Laurie in almost anything. Young Michael Palin, especially in _Holy Grail_. Peter Davison as Tristan in _All Creatures Great and Small_ was extraordinarily cute and charming. And for reasons I can’t quite understand or explain, David Dixon as Ford in _Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy_ and Richard Coyle as Jeff in _Coupling_, God help me. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/55 "2009-02-10T17:10:55Z")
Diana Rigg - Emma Peel from the Avengers Rosalind Russel I’m an oldie. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/56 "2009-02-10T18:17:53Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > Sigourney Weaver in “Ghostbusters” and “Galaxy Quest”. Yes, yes, a zillion times yes! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/57 "2009-02-10T18:28:17Z")
Crystal Bernard in Wings Jennifer Aniston Goldie Hawn ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/58 "2009-02-10T19:23:55Z")
My entries: Jeanene Garofolo and the woman whose name I cannot currently recall from the British version of _Whose Line Is It Anyway?_ RR ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/59 "2009-02-10T19:33:40Z")
I missed the edit window, but the WLIIA woman I was thinking of is Josie Lawrence. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-and-sexy-at-the-same-time/485098/60 "2009-02-10T20:43:06Z")
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