(This is not to be confused with Dame Edna Everadge's delightfully funny guest appearances this season, although the show has gone to the cross-dressing stockpile a little too often).
He is a welcome and surprisingly funny guest on late-night television, from "Saturday Night Live" to "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," where his high-energy skits are viral gold.
TV's love affair with Mullally started with "Will & Grace," and more recently, we've seen her on "Party Down," "Childrens Hospital" and some unbelievably funny guest spots in between -- including playing real-life husband Nick Offerman's TV ex on "Parks and Recreation" and acting as zany lounge singing mom to Casey WIlson's Penny Hartz on "Happy Endings".
In an episode of "30 Rock" that saw guest appearances from Cynthia Nixon, Jimmy Fallon, Mary Steenburgen and another Baldwin brother, the funniest guest star of the episode was "Weird Al" Yankovic, who even contributed a parody of the "30 Rock" theme song.
Mr. Green alone is responsible not just for being funny, interviewing guests and sparring with callers, but for nearly every aspect of the production of "Tom Green Live," up to and including last-minute pet upheavals.
Helping to alleviate that are some funny, generous guest performances, particularly by Mary Testa as Jack's overbearing, musical-loving mother, and the two-time Tony Award nominee Alison Fraser as his groovy aunt.
With her glee in proclaiming on Real Time that Muzzammil Hassan had called the police to "brag" that he had murdered his wife (this is not true), Gabriel came across to the audience as a funny, personable guest.
He was also nominated for a 2001 American Comedy Award (in the Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV Series category) for his work on Friends.
Now we've reached the letter J. Fry has been joined over the years by regular team captain Alan Davies and a revolving panel of funny, intellectually adventurous guests such as Dara O'Briain, Bill Bailey, Jo Brand and David Mitchell.
