Alice T. Day is an American director and writer known for her film "Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives", which she directed with her husband Lincoln H. Day.
 She is also known for extensive world peace organization work and work within the sociological field.
Claire Gordon (16 January 1941 – 13 April 2015) was an English film actress and comedienne known for leading and cameo roles in many British films from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, and for working with most of the television comedy stars of that time.
 She was best known for her leading roles in the cult films "Konga" and "Beat Girl", Gordon became the subject of singer Scott Walker's song "Archangel".
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedienne, model, film-studio executive, and producer.
 She was best known as the star of the self-produced sitcoms "I Love Lucy", "The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour", "The Lucy Show", "Here's Lucy", and "Life with Lucy".
Wendie Malick (born December 13, 1950) is an American actress, voice actress, comedienne and former fashion model, best known for her roles in television comedies.
 She starred as Judith Tupper Stone in the HBO sitcom "Dream On" (1990–96), and as Nina Van Horn in the NBC sitcom "Just Shoot Me!
" (1997–2003), for which she was nominated for two Primetime Emmys and a Golden Globe Award.
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedienne, singer and writer, whose career spans six decades of television.
 She is best known for her long-running TV variety show, "The Carol Burnett Show", originally aired on CBS.
 She has achieved success on stage, television and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles.
 She also has appeared on various talk shows and as a panelist on game shows.
Day by Day is an American television sitcom aired on NBC.
 The series ran from February 29, 1988 to June 25, 1989.
 It stars Douglas Sheehan, Linda Kelsey, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and Thora Birch in her television debut role.
Phyllis Ada Driver (July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012), better known as Phyllis Diller, was an American actress and stand-up comedienne, best known for her eccentric stage persona, her self-deprecating humor, her wild hair and clothes, and her exaggerated, cackling laugh.
Eddi-Rue McClanahan (February 21, 1934 – June 3, 2010) was an American actress and comedienne best known for her roles on television as Vivian Harmon on "Maude" (1972–78), "Aunt" Fran Crowley on "Mama's Family" (1983–84), and Blanche Devereaux on "The Golden Girls" (1985–92), for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1987.
Frances Helen Allison (November 20, 1907 – June 13, 1989) was an American television and radio comedienne, personality and singer.
 She is best known for her starring role on the weekday NBC-TV puppet show "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," which ran from 1947-57, occasionally returning to the air until the mid-1980s.
 The trio also hosted "The CBS Children's Film Festival", introducing international children's films, from 1967-77.
Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus ( ; born January 13, 1961) is an American actress, comedienne, and producer.
 She is best known for her work in television comedy, including "Saturday Night Live" (1982–85), "Seinfeld" (1989–98), "The New Adventures of Old Christine" (2006–10), and "Veep" (2012–present).
 With a total of eleven Emmy Awards, eight for acting and three for producing, she is tied with Cloris Leachman for winning more Emmy Awards than any other performer.
 She has also won the most Emmy Awards by a performer in the same role in a single series for her role in "Veep".

Question: Day by Day stars the American comedienne who was best known for her work in what field?
Answer: television comedy