Sheryl Underwood March 3, 2012

Sheryl Underwood became the Miller Lite Comedy Search's first female finalist in 1989. She currently hosts BET's Comic View and has her own BET show, Holla.
"Sheryl has won a number of high profile comedy competitions including Johnny Walker Red, Funniest Woman at the Improv, Old English Comedy Crunch and BET's Comic View's Funniest Female Comedian. In 1995 Underwood was named 1st runner-up in the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition, securing Sheryl a place in history as the first female comedian- in fact, the only comedian- to place in the competition's final round three years in a row."
She is known in the industry as a "sexually progressive, God-fearing, staunch, black Republican