The Devil Wears Prada remains a fan-favorite movie more than 17 years after it first premiered, and so many of its stars have amassed impressive fortunes in the time since they landed jobs at Runway.
19.09.2023 - 14:33 / justjared.com
The business of being funny can be an incredibly lucrative one.
While stand-up comics perform for laughs, the best of the best also generate plenty of revenue, and the wealthiest comedians are raking in millions and millions of dollars.
Some of Hollywood’s most hilarious comedians have gone on to create iconic TV shows and movies, launching lucrative stand-up specials, taking on late night hosting gigs and appearing on daytime TV talk shows.
Several comedians on this list launched successful, generation-defining sitcoms that have brought in huge amounts of money with syndication royalties. In fact, the No. 1 richest comedian on this list is nearly a billionaire!
But who are the richest comedians of all?
Scroll through to find out the richest comedians, ranked from lowest to highest estimated net worth…
The Devil Wears Prada remains a fan-favorite movie more than 17 years after it first premiered, and so many of its stars have amassed impressive fortunes in the time since they landed jobs at Runway.
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sold her production company, Hello Sunshine, which she co-founded in 2012, for $900 million, a number that likely prompted rumors of a 10-digit net worth.In June, Forbes released a list of the wealthiest self-made women in various industries. Witherspoon slotted in at #59, just after singer Dolly Parton, with a net-worth of $440 million – while other women who reportedly had higher net worths have acted, she was the first woman on the list whose primary occupation was acting.Speaking of the success she has generated throughout her career, Witherspoon says the opinions of others are not valuable to her.“I think I started so young, and rejection was such an early piece of my life that I learned a long time ago that other people’s opinions of me are none of my business,” she shared.“I really don’t care what anybody thinks.
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Tom Hanks or Jennifer Aniston.There’s also various metrics to measure someone’s wealth, between being self-made or the parameters of defining “net worth” – which often encompasses finances, assets, stakes in companies, real estate and other factors.According to Celebrity Net Worth, Jami Gertz is technically the richest actress in the world right now (September 2023) with a net worth of $8billion.Gertz is best known for her early career in the 1980s, starring in films Crossroads, The Lost Boys, Less Than Zero and TV series Square Pegs. More recently, she’s had small roles in Modern Family and This Is Us.Her wealth, however, is largely due to her marriage to billionaire businessman Tony Ressler, with the pair being part-owners of NBA team Atlanta Hawks.Others on the list include Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who have a combined net worth of $500million, and Jennifer Lopez with $400million.In a list of ‘America’s Richest Self-Made Women’ published on Forbes in 2023, Reese Witherspoon was named the richest self-made actress, with a net worth of $440million.
You’re a top earner, baby! RuPaul’s Drag Race is a worldwide sensation, spawning dozens of spinoffs, specials and international editions of the long-running drag competition series.
One Direction is undeniably one of the biggest boy bands to hit the scene since the early millennium bubblegum pop explosion, and the members of the group amassed impressive fortunes over the years.
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Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort, an ad-support streaming channel, has launched its fall slate including an unscripted series featuring WNBA players Sydney Colson and Theresa Plaisance.
more on the way). Choosing the best episodes within such a boundless, occasionally contradictory storytelling galaxy seems about as wise as cheating when playing poker with a Klingon.
The cast of Gossip Girl has made a lot of money over the years!
Fans are already feeling the heartache of having no new Outlander episodes until next year, with the long break in season seven.
Game of Thrones is the sort of industry dominating, pop culture titan that comes around every so often and totally changes the game. And while the characters fought for the Iron Throne, the show made its stars wealthy in real life.