Highlights

• Kate Micucci excels in voice acting, bringing characters like Velma and Webby to life with her nerdy yet feminine tone.
• With ukelele skills and humor, she shines in underappreciated roles on shows like "Scrubs" & "Raising Hope."
• Even in small roles, Micucci stands out, showcasing her comedic talent on shows like "Key and Peele" and "Regular Show".

Comedian and actress Kate Micucci is one of those stars who is recognizable, but does not quite yet have the degree of celebrity she deserves. Micucci has been in everything from indie movies to sitcoms. She has performed stand-up comedy, music, and both at the same time with her partner Riki Lindhome in their duo Garfunkel and Oats. Micucci is also a prominent voice actor, and she has used her talent to grace the screen in several of the world's favorite cartoons.

So, why isn't this comical actress, who has graced the screen several times and continues to do so, not appreciated in the way that she deserves? Well, perhaps a closer look at her best, most underappreciated roles will solve that problem.

Updated March 2024: Kate Micucci made headlines in 2023 after she revealed that she was battling lung cancer, despite never having smoked. As a result of catching the cancer early, Micucci was able to have it removed and she announced in December 2023 that she was cancer free.

While Micucci is best known for the role on 'The Big Bang Theory', in more recent years she has been a very successful voice actor with 'Nature Cat', 'Doc McStuffins', 'Mickey Mouse Funhouse', and more. But, when the opportunity arose to appear on 'Night Court' with former co-star, Melissa Rauch, Micucci jumped at the chance to do so.

8 'Be Cool Scooby-Doo'

Role: Velma

• Aired: 2015-2017 (52 episodes)

This is only one of the series where Micucci stepped in to play Velma, the booksmart teen sleuth who always loses her glasses. Micucci's voice is a perfect fit for the character. It is slightly deep but still very feminine and somehow has a naturally nerdy tone to it.

Along with Be Cool Scooby-Doo, Micucci was the voice of Velma in Scooby-Doo features like Lego Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo and WWE!, Scooby-Doo And Batman, Scooby-Doo and The Gourmet Ghost, and many more. She is also the voice of Velma in the latest Scooby-Doo series, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who.

7 'Scrubs'

Role: The Gooch

• Aired: 2009 (5 episodes)

Fans of Scrubs will remember that Ted, the hospital's lawyer, was a lonely sad sack who couldn't talk to women if his life depended on it. When Ted finally found love with Stephanie Gooch, aka The Gooch, fans were delighted by the heartwarming storyline.

The Gooch was also one of the first times Micucci got the chance to showcase her musical skills and her now-famous ukelele playing. Her character was a shy children's entertainer who sang goofy ukelele songs for sick kids at Sacred Heart Hospital.

MIcucci appeared in five episodes.

6 'Raising Hope'

Role: Shelley

• Aired: 2010-2014 (26 episodes)

Although the show ended up canceled after four seasons, a common thing to happen with underrated Fox sitcoms, Kate Micucci had an amusing stint on the show as Shelley, a potential love interest for Jimmy who was raising his daughter Hope after the government executed the child's mother, a convicted serial killer.

Once again, Micucci got to show off her wonderful, and hysterical, ability with her ukelele.

5 'Garfunkel And Oates'

Role: Oates

• Aired: 2014 (8 episodes)

Micucci is famous for her comedy songs sung while strumming on her ukelele, and she often performs with Lindhome as the comedy music duo Garfunkel and Oats. The pair also had a show on IFC that, unfortunately, only lasted one season.

They did, however, get to sing some of their most hilarious songs and bits for the series, titles which include "You Me and Steve," (a song about threesomes), "The Loophole" (a song about how one can cheat on an abstinence pledge using anal sex), and "Pregnant Women Are Smug," (which is self-explanatory).

The pair also loaned their vocals to help record the "Everything Is Awesome" remix for The Lego Movie The Second Part.

4 'Duck Tales'

Role: Webby Vanderquack

• Aired: 2017-2021 (55 episodes)

The classic 1990s Disney cartoon Duck Tales was rebooted with an all-star cast of voice actors that includes Community's Danny Pudi, David Tennant of Doctor Who fame, Ben Schwartz, and Broadway star Lin Manuel-Miranda.

Among the series of major names in the new show is Kate Micucci, who is now the voice of Webby Vanderquack.

3 'Regular Show'

Role: Roxy

• Aired: 2016 (1 episode)

So extensive is Kate Micucci's voice acting resume it is hard to pick a role to highlight. She was the voice of the Popsicle in The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, she voiced Sadie Miller for Steven Universe, and she did three different characters for Adventure Time. The list of one-off characters she has done for Disney, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon franchises is astounding. So, when we highlight the fact she played an alien character named Roxy for one episode of Regular Show, we're really highlighting her whole cartoon credit list.

2 'Jay And Silent Bob Reboot'

Role: Mooby's Fun-ployee

• Aired: 2019

Micucci has been in several films, though hardly ever in anything besides a supporting role or a cameo. Kevin Smith rebooted two of his most famous characters recently in 2019's Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, where the pair comes face to face with Jay's long-lost daughter.

No addition to the Jay and Silent Bob canon is complete without one trip to the fictional fast-food joint Mooby's, where sullen fast-food workers are forced to interact with the characters written by Kevin Smith.

In the latest addition to the series, Micucci had the pleasure of playing the sullen fast-food employee working the counter at Mooby's.

1 'Key And Peele'

Role: Scout

• Aired: 2013 (1 episode)

Micucci was only in one episode and only in one sketch but her delivery was so good and the sketch so hilarious that it has to be included in this list.

In the bit simply titled "Mr. T PSA" which parodies the PSAs that were all over television in the 1980s starring the star of The A-Team, Micucci is Scout, a child who along with Key is setting up Mr. T to remind kids to not smoke or just say no to drugs. Instead, much to Scout's confusion, Mr. T uses the PSA to defend his haircut and lifestyle choices, which he is very insecure about. The small part called for someone who can personify the word "awkward," and folks, that is without a doubt, Kate Micucci.