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How can a woman play one gorgeous, mature, intelligent and down-to-earth woman after another for so long and not get more attention?

That's what I keep thinking any time I see Connie Britton on screen. On Friday Night Lights, Britton plays the Tami Taylor, the sexy, no-nonsense wife of Dillon Panthers coach Eric Taylor. In episode after episode, she showed that she is not only a loving mother and a caring school counselor, but that after years of marriage, she still has passion for her husband. But she also knew that she owns her life; in the next-to-last episode of the season, she told Eric that she wasn't going to follow him to a new job in Austin because she liked her job in Dillon.

Of course, this isn't the first time Britton's played the strong, willowy type. Remember Spin City?

When I first put this topic up on our list of pending posts, I received an e-mail from fellow Squadder Adam Finley:

"I saw you had a post started about your crush on Amy Sedaris. I wrote something similar back in June. Bob Sassone also has a thing for her. I guess this means the three of us must fight to the death?"

Maybe later, Adam. We have to pick an open field on a neutral site, which means booking flights and hotels. Then we'll have to select weapons that are deadly but are stealthy enough to get past airport security. I'll get started on the plans tomorrow, promise.

But for now, I think we should just collectively praise Amy Sedaris as "The Official Funny Gal of TV Squad". It looks like we've made her the topic of conversation a number of times, and with good reason. Amy Sedaris is funny. Subversively funny. She's so funny that she doesn't even realize how funny she's being, even when she's on a roll.

How does she do it? By being normal. So normal it hurts.

Let me ask our male readers a question: have you ever had a woman in your group of friends who was super cool, one that drank with you and made jokes and was a complete riot? You always thought she was attractive, but her personality and humor were what you saw first. Now, did one day that woman come to lunch or work wearing a skirt, or with different hair or makeup, and you were just blown away by how hot she was? Well, that's how I think of Bonnie Hunt.

Bonnie's a funny gal. Really funny. She's quick on her feet, and is particularly adept at improvisation, telling funny stories about her life and the people she knows inside and outside show business. Those improvisational skills made the show-within-a-show scenes on her ABC sitcom Life With Bonnie extremely funny, since they were largely unscripted. Those scenes also showed that she could hold her own with comedy's finest, since many of the guests on her fictional morning show were played by improv legends like Jonathan Winters.