For her starring role as Vice President Selina Meyer in the seventh and final season of Veep, Julia Louis-Dreyfus recently received another Emmy Award nomination for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series. She won the award six years in a row from 2012-2017. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Dewayne Perkins performed in one of the New Faces showcases at Just For Laughs. Tristan Brand/Courtesy of Just For Laughs hide caption
The comedian Brian Regan, pictured here in his Netflix special Nunchucks and Flamethrowers, has earned a reputation as a comic's comic. Jeffery Garland/Netflix hide caption
From left, Just For Laughs' new owner Howie Mandel, comedians Tiffany Haddish and Hannah Gadsby. Courtesy of Just For Laughs/Felicia Michaels hide caption
Comedian Michelle Wolf performs at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington on Saturday. Aaron Bernstein/Reuters hide caption
Louis C.K. attends the FX and Vanity Fair Emmy Celebration at Craft in Century City, Calif., on Sept. 16. Rich Fury/Getty Images hide caption
David Letterman arrives at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 20th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor presented to him on Sunday. Owen Sweeney/Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP hide caption
Conan O'Brien in 2016. He is being sued by a writer who accuses him of stealing jokes. O'Brien says the idea of stealing someone else's comedy makes him physically ill. Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images hide caption
Don Rickles was jokingly known as "The Sultan of Insult." The Kobal Collection hide caption
Groundlings comedy troupe founder Gary Austin has died at 75. Here he attends a January 2016 Groundlings event with actress Victoria Carrol-Bell in West Hollywood, Calif. Araya Diaz/Getty Images for The Groundlings hide caption
John Oliver speaks at Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs" in New York in 2015. Charles Sykes/AP hide caption
Comedian Irwin Corey was known for his long-running act as "The World's Foremost Authority." He is pictured here in the 1970s. Corey died at the age of 102. ABC/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption
Corey Ryan Forrester, Drew Morgan and Trae Crowder write and perform together. They wrote a book called The Liberal Redneck Manifesto, which challenges what readers might expect from Southern comedy. Robin Marchant/Getty Images hide caption
Stephen Agyei (left) and Roy Wood Jr. talk about what it takes to make it in comedy. Jeffrey Nicholson/Courtesy of Stephen Agyei; Mindy Tucker/Courtesy of Roy Wood Jr. hide caption