Ali Wong

We’re in a rich age for boundary-breaking physical comedy, but Ali Wong takes anatomical wisecracks to a whole new level. For one, she’s been pregnant on both of her Netflix specials, Baby Cobra, and Hard Knock Wife; a handy prop that has caused some people to ask Wong if she plans to be pregnant on every comedy tour. (She does not.) Breast-milk jokes are fair game, as is trying to get pregnant, pregnancy, afterbirth (the literal thing), and the other kind of afterbirth: raising a baby ("a wack-ass job.") Wong's jokes, though, certainly subvert any kind of stereotype that those topics might bring to mind: Her work oozes verve and raunchy energy. With a new Netflix romantic comedy out, in which she plays a hard-hitting chef who reconnects with a childhood best friend, she's primed to pack the house.