Marianne Curan

Later in its run, she hosted PAX TV's live daytime talk show Great Day America with Food Network personality Marc Summers.

Her imitations of political figures Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin gained her recurring roles in sketches on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in the late 2000s.

[2] Curan has worked with The Groundlings and was part in the Washington, D.C.-area political comedy troupe Gross National Product for years.

With friends Wendy Kamenoff and Lori Alan, she created and starred in The Hungry and Horny Show, which ran in Los Angeles in the spring and summer of 2007.

[3] In December 2010, Curan starred in the one-woman show "A Kodachrome Christmas," written and directed by Seinfeld writing alum Pat Hazell.