Jesse Eisenberg, Tina Fey, and Sarah Drew All Place in the Awkward Olympics

From the incestous George Michael on Arrested Development to the classically geeky Evan of the silver screen in Superbad, Cera has dominated awkwardness in Hollywood for the past seven years. Actors have tried to edge him out (looking at you McLovin') but he still holds the crown... which will probably fall off and injure the poor girl he was trying to kiss.

Sarah Drew is an expert at playing virgins. And not the sexy teases, either. Her Grey's Anatomy character Dr. Kepner is a twenty-something doctor waiting for The One; on Everwood Hannah Rogers was always putting the brakes on with her much more experienced boyfriend; and Suzy Pepper's chaste lust for Mr. Schue (yep, she was on Glee) ends with her burning her trachea.

All the gawky actors of today owe a debt of thanks to Hall for paving the way in the '80s. The dancing in 16 Candles? The attempted suicide by flare gun in The Breakfast Club? It doesn't get much more awkward. More than that, he gives the bumbling kids of today hope that they too can grow up to beat up Johnny Depp.

I know -- Wiig's most memorable SNL characters (Target cashier, surprise woman) are obnoxiously loud, but some of her funniest roles have been subtly, softly awkward misfits, from the odd executive in Knocked Up to Paulette in Adventureland. And of course, there's always Gilly.

Sometimes Segel plays a sweet guy, like Marshall on How I Met Your Mother, or a creep like one of the bros from Knocked Up. But whether talking about blow jobs at an engagement toast or getting jumped naked, all of his roles merit an awkward turtle.

Other actors can blame typecasting for their stream of bumbling roles, but Fey writes them herself. Every time Liz Lemon wears a fanny pack, or the teacher from Mean Girls unintentionally takes her shirt off, Fey was 100% behind it. She's even willing to be awkward off camera, with embarrassing anecdotes in Bossypants. That's true commitment.

Called "the poor man's Michael Cera" before his Oscar nod, Eisenberg is the awkward kid of the indies. His breakout was in the flick The Squid and the Whale as an troubling teen taking credit for a Pink Floyd classic, and last fall his face was captured in what could have easily been mistaken for the worst senior picture ever was plastered over every bus and subway -- we're talking about his dead-eyed stare in the Social Network poster. But he got six Best Actor awards for playing awkward billionaireMark Zuckerberg, so the lack of social awareness is working for him.

There's an ineptness that makes you go "ohh," and there are ones that make you go "aww!" Rudd's characters always deliver the "aww" moments, from his desperate and clumsy attempt at friendship in I Love You, Man to selling pot as an act of mercy to a seemingly depressed uniformed cop in the upcoming Our Idiot Brother. He basically plays an adorable puppy who tries to, but can't, get the bag off his head.