A teacher singing about living in a cabin, a podcaster at a hurricane party and a multiversal entity looking to destroy everything with a bagel are just some of our picks for this category.

Here are our picks for the Top 5 Supporting Performances in a Comedic Movie Role in 2022.

– Ashley Hobley

5.) Lashana Lynch

Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical

Miss Honey needs to make you feel loved. Be it the book or the 1996 film, Miss Honey needs to feel like the most likable, loveable person in whatever version of Matilda you’re watching, and Matilda: The Musical hit gold with the casting of Lashana Lynch. She manages to not only pair perfectly with Alisha Weir’s Matilda, but she’s also the perfect antiphrasis to Emma Thompson’s Agatha Trunchbull. With her performance in Matilda: The Musical, I’ve come to believe that Lashana Lynch can do anything. 

– Dylan Blight

4.) Rachel Sennott

Bodies Bodies Bodies

In Bodies Bodies Bodies, Rachel Sennott brings Alice to life with a lively and (mostly) likable personality. You know she’s trouble from the moment we meet her on screen, but Alice is always at the centre of any scene, and Sennott delivers the film but memorable moments of dialogue — but the laugh-out-laud and cringe-inducing. 

– Dylan Blight

3.) Jamie Lee Curtis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

You have to respect Jamie Lee Curtis, at her age and with her resume, for being willing to join the Daniels on the crazy ride that is Everything Everywhere All at Once. In the unflattering role of Deirdre Beaubeirdre, an IRS inspector tasked with investigating Eveyln and Wayond’s taxes, Curtis manages to make the character a likable one, admittedly after she nearly kills our heroine several times and has her head smashed through a wall. Plus, she should make this list just for the part she played as Evelyn’s partner in the universe where humans have hotdogs for fingers, that is some funny stuff.

– Ashley Hobley

2.) Ke Huy Quan

Everything Everywhere All at Once

One of the best feel-good stories of 2022 was the acting comeback of Ke Huy Quan. As multiple versions of Waymond Wang, Ke Huy Quan shines with every chance he gets. Whether is it seamlessly shifting between Waymond and Alpha-Waymond, fighting off a bunch of bad guys with a fanny pack or letting Evelyn know “in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you”, Quan shows what he is capable of and makes us glad that he decided to chase his dream of acting again.

– Ashley Hobley

1.) Stephanie Hsu

Everything Everywhere All at Once

In a cast filled with actors with incredible resumes, Stephanie Hsu proves to be their equal in the dual roles of Joy and Jobu Tupaki. Oscillating between playing the daughter of an immigrant who can’t get the love and praise she wants from her mother or the multiverse hopping godlike being hellbent on ending everything everywhere all at once, Hsu does a stellar job with the emotional drama and the over-the-top craziness that the Daniels require of her. Another fantastic performance in a film littered with them.

– Ashley Hobley

Dylan Blight and Ashley Hobley compiled this Top 5 list. The movies nominated must have had a theatrical release in a cinema, VOD or on a streaming platform between December 27th 2021 – December 27th 2022.