The Daily Rumble: Oh, Captain, My Captain, Round 6: Comedy is Hard

 

In today's Daily Rumble, we go a little lighter on the content with two notoriously funny captains, although one is more a straight-uh-alien than the other.

Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce from M*A*S*H

As played by Alan Alda, a long-time TV actor, M*A*S*H set the bar for comedies in the early 1980's. He's the wisecracking, womanizing, carousing, prankster doctor in the MASH unit. Pierce has little tolerance for military red tape and customs, feeling they get in the way of his doing his job, and has little respect for most Regular Army personnel. He never wears rank insignia on his fatigues, never polishes his combat boots, and only wears his Class A uniform when he believes appearance can achieve greater good – but does not wear any of the decorations to which he is entitled. (from the Wikipedia entry).

Captain Turanga Leela from Futurama

Captain, pilot, and pretty much the grown-up at Planet Express, Leela is the one who you can count on in any situation. No, really, she's the ONLY one. The character, voiced by Katey Sagal, is named after the Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen. She is one of the few characters in the cast to routinely display competence and the ability to command, and routinely saves the rest of the cast from disaster. However, she suffers extreme self-doubt because she has only one eye and grew up as a bullied orphan. She first believes herself an alien, but later finds out she is the least-mutated sewer mutant in the history of 31st-century Earth (from the Wikipedia entry).