I’ve seen so many satirical takes on Marilyn Monroe by this point, ranging from hilarious to amusing to embarrassingly bad, that I wanted to wade through them all and point out all the ones I actually liked. Famous people are prime targets for parody in general but Marilyn had a lot of moments from The Seven-Year Itch to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to the whole JFK thing that were ripe for a humorous lens, and movies, TV shows, comics, commercials and more have jumped at the chance multiple times to poke fun at her. I feel like I should clarify what constitutes a parody. People cosplaying as her, verbally joking about her or taking inspiration from her for a magazine shoot or a music video don’t count for the most part. A costume itself isn’t a parody. Unless there is a humorous angle. And I know countless celebrities have channeled her style in photos not as a joke but as an homage, like Drew Barrymore, Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, Bella Thorne and Dove Cameron for example. So I’m not including things like that.

Charlize Theron (Saturday Night Live)

Saturday Night Live has of course done their fair share of Marilyn Monroe jokes over the years but Season 26, Episode 4 may feature their funniest one when host Charlize Theron and Jimmy Fallon play Marilyn and her husband Joe DiMaggio during the shooting of the skirt blowing scene from The Seven-Year Itch. DiMaggio was famously uncomfortable with his wife letting the whole world see up her skirt in that film and SNL plays off that hilariously by portraying the shoot as a blatant excuse for every guy on set to basically be a pervert while DiMaggio is seen as the unreasonable one. Lighten up, Joe. It’s just a movie.

Amy Poehler (Blades of Glory)

Amy Poehler and Will Arnett were hilarious as the villainous brother-sister duo from the 2007 ice skating comedy Blades of Glory with peak hilarity reached in the third act when they dressed as Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy in a skating routine that incorporated the politician and movie star’s lives into the show, and they do not hold back on the tragic elements either. Tasteless? Yes. And that’s what makes it so funny.

Lindsay Lohan (InAPPropriate Comedy)

The scene from The Seven-Year Itch where Marilyn feels “the breeze from the subway” as her dress flies up was like a dream for straight guys everywhere. Especially in the sexually repressed decade of the fifties. To this day it still gets a lot of guys going and it has been invoked many times by celebrities from Julia Louis-Dreyfus to Christina Ricci to Danica Patrick to Amy Schumer and even She-Hulk. Filmmaker Vince Offer has been more gratuitous than most about the sex appeal of that scene with his films. The critically derided and largely unfunny 1999 film The Underground Comedy Film was his first to parody Marilyn, but his 2013 follow-up InAPPropriate Comedy (which was also bad) did a slightly better job with their Marilyn parody with a sketch starring Lindsay Lohan as herself enjoying the cool subway breeze Marilyn-style. The twist in both films is that there is in fact no subway under the grating but instead a guy blowing a fan up her skirt, but whereas the “joke” in Underground Comedy Film was that two guys walking by the scene start ejaculating so much that their semen lands on the face of the guy under the grating (I know, real top-tier humor), the sketch starring Lindsay Lohan ends with Lohan addressing the paparazzi by saying it’s her turn to “shoot” them now. At which point she pulls out two guns and kills all the cameramen. It’s still a dumb joke. But who hasn’t wanted to kill the paparazzi at one point?

Margot Robbie (Birds of Prey)

The song “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” originated in the 1949 Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Carol Channing, but it was popularized by Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film adaptation and ever since then it has been covered, invoked and paid homage to by singers like Madonna, Beyoncé, Ariana Grande and Kylie Minogue (apparently the woman who played Cammy White in the live-action Street Fighter film is also a famous singer or something). Miss Piggy even sang it with both Carol Channing on The Muppet Show and Whoopi Goldberg on Muppets Tonight while Ryan Gosling recently paid homage to it in one of the best moments from the 96th Academy Awards. Even tennis star Serena Williams literally sang the song on stage. But for my money, nothing will ever top Harley Quinn’s fever dream interpretation in the 2020 film Birds of Prey. Other people can speculate over whether or not Harley fantasizes about being in musical numbers to process her trauma. As soon as she bit that guy’s finger, I already knew this was the best “Diamonds” parody I’ve ever seen.

Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)

As a Simpsons fan, how could I not include this? The moment where Marilyn sings “Happy Birthday Mr. President” to JFK is another moment from Marilyn’s life that has been endlessly parodied, including by Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, Chelsea Handler, Jennifer Aniston, Natalie Portman, Uma Thurman and even Michelle Obama (okay, I’m kidding, it wasn’t the real Michelle Obama but Vernetta Jenkins playing Michelle Obama in a TotallySketch video where she sings “Happy Birthday” Marilyn-style to Barack Obama). But nothing has made me laugh more than Mr. Smithers regularly fantasizing about Mr. Burns, especially that scene from Season 5, Episode 4 when Burns comes out of that cake and sings “Happy birthday Mr. Smithers.” Probably one of the reasons why it makes me laugh so much is because Mr. Burns may be objectively the most hideous-looking and most morally despicable character in TV history. Proof that everyone is someone’s soul mate.

That’s the end of my list. Of course Marilyn’s popularity endures so I’m sure we will see more and more people pay homage to her as the years go by.