EW Entertainers of the Year include Adam Lambert, Jane Lynch and casts of “True Blood” and “Modern Family”

With two major box office hits in a single year, Sandra Bullock tops Entertainment Weekly’s 2009 Entertainers of the Year list.

Hooray for her.

Now let’s get to the folks we really care about: The sexy cast of HBO’s True Blood is #2, Lady Gaga is #3, Meryl Streep is #6 and the cast of Dexter is #15.1

Landing at #8 is a guy who a year ago we had not heard of and who now, we can’t stop talking about: Adam Lambert! He tells EW: “Before I auditioned for American Idol, I had just left the cast of Wicked in LA, I was burned-out and I was bored.”

He has become one of the most famous gay performers in the world but insists: “If no one had been talking about my [sexuality] , I probably would have kept it private to be honest.”

Hmmm. I just don’t think it’s in  Adam’s nature to keep anything private! Thank goodness. Even though Adam has gotten a lot of publicity for things besides his music, it really helps that his new album, For Your Entertainment, is so terrific.

He lives up to the hype.

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Coming in at #12 is the great Jane Lynch who is having the biggest year of her career.

She has been shining in movies like 40 Year Old Virgin and A Mighty Wind for years then, at 49, lands a real break-out role on Fox’s Glee. She’s ice-cold cheer coach Sue Sylvester who will say things like: “All I want is just one day a year where I’m not visually assaulted by uglies and fatties.”

Says Jane of her growing fame: “It’s been a slow reckoning that this is pretty awesome. But it also means you can’t make a fool of yourself in public. No more streaking. Basically now I have to behave myself.”

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The cast of Modern Family, which includes out actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson playing one-half of a gay couple, made the EW list at #9. The ABC comedy was able to achieve hit status in its first season without benefit of a cushy time-slot and an established leading into it.

The show follows the lives of three interconnected clans of whom co-creator Steven Levitan says: “We want people to watch this show and say, ‘My God, they must have had a hidden microphone in our living room because this is the same exact argument we had last week.”