Pamela Adlon - "Pamela", Louie
Lizzy Caplan - "Julia", New Girl
Patricia Clarkson - "Tammy One", Parks and Recreation
Kathryn Hahn - "Jennifer Barkley", Parks and Recreation
Dot-Marie Jones - "Coach Shannon Beiste", Glee
Maya Rudolph - "Host", Saturday Night Live
I've mentioned my love of "Subway/Pamela" before, but here want to specifically credit the way Adlon's acerbity keeps the story tethered to the ground even as Louie attempts to lift off into romantic ambitions. Caplan's dry humor brought a unique quality to her arc on New Girl and Julia functioned well as a vehicle for the show's writers to demonstrate that they understood how Jess plays to people not naturally receptive to whimsy. Clarkson lived up to the promise of the threat of the first Mrs. Swanson, hilariously undercutting Parks and Recreation's crew of optimists. Hahn similarly reveled in Jennifer's mercenary cynicism, providing a "real world" view of Pawnee and its citizens that still fit with the show's tone. Jones, who never gets enough to do on Glee, found the emotionally authentic heart of an episode otherwise written like an after-school special. Rudolph's returns to SNL are not only funny, but suffused with what feels like a genuine love of her former castmates and of the show's capacity for zaniness.
Honorable Mentions: Gideon Adlon, Louie; Elizabeth Banks, 30 Rock; Zooey Deschanel, Saturday Night Live; Hadley Delany, Louie; Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live; Idina Menzel, Glee; Megan Mullally, Happy Endings; Megan Mullally, Parks and Recreation; Becki Newton, How I Met Your Mother; Joan Rivers, Louie; Kristen Schaal, 30 Rock; Sherri Shephard, 30 Rock; Kiernan Shipka, Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23; Mary Steenburgen, 30 Rock
I Wouldn't Be Surprised to See: Ellen Barkin, Modern Family; Barbara Barrie, Enlightened; Kathy Bates, Two and a Half Men; Margaret Cho, 30 Rock; Lauren Potter, Glee; Doris Roberts, Hot in Cleveland; Susan Sarandon, The Big C; Susan Sarandon, 30 Rock; Alicia Silverstone, Suburgatory; Elaine Stritch, 30 Rock; Lily Tomlin, Eastbound and Down
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