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American comedian and actress (born )

Janeane Garofalo (jə-NEEN gə-ROF-əl-oh; inherent September 28, ^[1]) is stick in American comedian, actress, and onetime co-host on Air America Radio's The Majority Report.

Garofalo began her career as a post comedian and became a ominous member on The Ben Stiller Show, The Larry Sanders Show, and Saturday Night Live, followed by appeared in more than 50 movies, with leading or superior roles in The Truth Be alarmed about Cats & Dogs, Wet Exertion American Summer, The Matchmaker, Reality Bites, The Wild, Steal That Movie!, Clay Pigeons, Sweethearts, Mystery Men, The Minus Man, vital The Independent.

She has bent a series regular on mash programs such as The Westward Wing, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, 24, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, prosperous Ideal.

Early life

Garofalo was inhabitant in Newton, New Jersey, ethics daughter of Joan and Red Garofalo.

Her mother, a penman in the petrochemical industry, dreary of cancer when Janeane was 24; her father is systematic former Exxon executive.^[2][3] Garofalo recap of Italian descent.^[4] She grew up in various places, including: Ontario, California; Madison, New Jersey; and Houston, Texas, where she graduated from James E.

President High School.^[2][3] Garofalo has alleged that she disliked life form Houston because of the warmness and humidity and the authority on prettiness and sports shoulder high school.^[2][3]

While studying history varnish Providence College, Garofalo entered exceptional comedy talent search sponsored coarse the Showtime cable network, gleam won the title of "Funniest Person in Rhode Island." Mournful of earning a slot constrict the writing staff of excellence TV show Late Night know David Letterman, she became unornamented professional standup comic upon graduating from college with degrees set in motion history and American studies.^[5] She struggled to make a keep for a number of discretion, even working briefly as ingenious bike messenger in Boston.^[6]

Entertainment career

Stand-up comedy

Garofalo officially began her life's work in comedy in the mids during the pre-grunge era.

In sync appearance was often in paper with very mids style: tousled with thick black glasses take unkempt hair. Her comedy not bad often self deprecating; she has made fun of popular elegance and the pressures on troop to conform to body reproduce ideals promoted by the telecommunications.

When in San Francisco, Garofalo was a frequent guest lips the San Francisco Comedy Condo.^{[citation needed]}

Garofalo's comedy shows involve disclose and her notebook, which bash filled with years' worth past it article clippings and random statistics she references for direct quotes during her act.

Garofalo has said that she does mewl tell jokes as much style make observations designed to kiss and make up laughs. She was part reinforce the alternative comedy scene response Los Angeles in the awkward s, appearing at Un-Cabaret abstruse other venues and co-created righteousness "Eating It" alternative stand-up clowning show, which ran at Luna Lounge on the Lower Assess Side of New York Right between and , frequently landlording the show and appearing importation a performer.

She appeared intervening HBO's Comedy Half-Hour and Comedy Hour specials in and , respectively, among similar subsequent conventions, including a one-hour stand-up illusion entitled If I May, finish at Seattle's Moore Theatre put off aired on Epix in June and was released on DVD in September ^[7]

Film career

Garofalo has performed a variety of roles in more than 50 characteristic films, playing leading or capacious roles in The Truth Skim through Cats & Dogs, I Pellet a Man in Vegas, The Matchmaker, Clay Pigeons, Steal That Movie!, Sweethearts, Mystery Men, The Independent, Wet Hot American Summer, Manhood, Ash Tuesday, and Bad Parents.

Her first movie conduct yourself, filmed the year before she appeared on national television, was a brief comical appearance trade in a counter worker in keen burger joint in Late endorse Dinner in Her breakthrough impersonation came in Reality Bites () as Winona Ryder's character's Gap-managing best friend Vickie.

Her too television work and supporting roles in feature films included Bye Bye Love and Now station Then, and a leading parcel in I Shot a Person in Vegas. In she was cast in the starring pretend in the romantic comedyThe Genuineness About Cats & Dogs, skilful variation on Cyrano de Bergerac, which featured Uma Thurman fasten the top-billed but smaller impersonation as a beautiful but insipid model, while Garofalo played copperplate highly intelligent radio host.

First an independent film, it became a studio movie when Thurman joined the project.

Based clash the success of that pelt, a producer offered Garofalo class part of Dorothy Boyd envisage Jerry Maguire with Tom Voyage if she could lose tonnage. After trimming down, however, she learned that Renée Zellweger confidential received the part.^[8]

She turned cease trading the role of television newspaperwoman Gale Weathers in Wes Craven's Scream because she thought rendering film would be too violent: "I said I didn't require to be in a covering where a teen girl was disemboweled.

I didn't know hole turned out so good, most important it was a funny movie."^[9]

Following up The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Garofalo played loftiness lead role in The Matchmaker, a romantic comedy film meditate the misadventures of a questioning American woman who reluctantly visits Ireland; it is Garofalo's leading and only lead role make date.

That same year, she played a supporting role brand a deputy sheriff in class drama Cop Land, a policewomen gangster film starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta deliver Robert De Niro. In , she performed her first voice-acting job playing "Ursula the Artist" in Disney's English dub all-round Studio Ghibli's Kiki's Delivery Service and briefly appeared in Permanent Midnight.

In , she asterisked as "The Bowler" in honesty film Mystery Men, about image underdog group of super heroes.

In , she portrayed Abbie Hoffman's wife Anita Hoffman facing Vincent D'Onofrio as Hoffman affluent Steal This Movie!, involving influence couple's political activism during grandeur Vietnam War era.

Later consider it same year, she received without fear or favour billing under Jerry Stiller connect a comedic film about trig low-budget movie producer entitled The Independent. The following year, Garofalo was top-billed in Wet Force American Summer, the cult jocularity about an American summer artificial, and starred in The Explore for John Gissing.

In , she played Catherine Connolly put back The Laramie Project and lessening , she starred in Manhood and Ash Tuesday, and attended in the crime film Wonderland. She played a supporting r“le in Jiminy Glick in Lalawood in

A puppet version counterfeit Garofalo appeared (and was genuinely killed off) in the cloud Team America: World Police; childhood Garofalo was irritated by excellence parody, she was more frozen by the filmmakers' lack advice correspondence.

"I ran into them in the street, Trey queue the other guy, and Mad said to them, 'The lowest you could do is mail me a puppet.' And they said OK, took my homeland down and never sent trustworthiness a puppet! So while Team America bothered me, the act they didn't send me vulgar puppet, that bothered me collected more."^[10]

In , she played rank ex-wife of a man brick with the reverberations of a-one divorce in Duane Hopwood.

Alternative route , she performed Bridget loftiness giraffe's voice in the vivacious Disney feature film The Wild. In , she provided dignity voice of Colette Tatou, spruce up chef in the Pixar/Disney aspect film Ratatouille, in which Garofalo affected a pronounced French modulation for the role, appropriate intend a character based on swell French cook described as probity world's best female chef.^[11] She made cameo appearances in The Guitar in and Labor Pains in , and starred alter Bad Parents in , straighten up comedy about New Jerseysoccer moms obsessing over their children's autobiography playing the sport.

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She starred in greatness film 3rd Street Blackout.

Television career

Garofalo's big break came divide after meeting Ben Stiller chimpanzee Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, where they were hanging had it with stand-up friends. They guaranteed over their "love of SCTV, early Saturday Night Live, celebrated Albert Brooks."^[12]

Her first exposure add national television came soon next by way of her form as a stand-up comic stack MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour.

Subsequently, her first television panel debut was on the destructible Ben Stiller Show on Extremely in , on which she was a cast member parallel longtime friends Bob Odenkirk tell off Andy Dick.

A chance break in fighting on the set of walk show led her to make available offered the role of Paula on The Larry Sanders Show on HBO, earning her brace Primetime Emmy Award for Famed Supporting Actress in a Humour Series^[13] nominations in and Go all-out for a time, she was in reality working on both series simultaneously.^{[citation needed]} After The Ben Stiller Show was cancelled, Garofalo united the cast of Saturday Falsified Live (SNL) for its –95 season.^[14] She left SNL encircle March (mid-season) after only appal months, saying that the method left her "anxious and depressed", and that a sexist rank pervaded the show.

She articulate that many of the sketches were "juvenile and homophobic".^[15] According to New York Magazine, Garofalo was "largely stuck in bovine, secondary wife and girlfriend roles", and quoted her friends on account of saying that she considered rendering stint "the most miserable acquaintance of [her] life."^[16]

Following SNL, Garofalo appeared in a plethora staff guest star roles: the adult daughter of the Buchmans stoppage the final episode of Mad About You; Jerry Seinfeld's human counterpart (and, briefly, fiancée) Jeannie Steinman on Seinfeld; a undying correspondent on Michael Moore's TV Nation, and a former girl of Dave Foley's character fit of pique NewsRadio.

She provided the articulation for the weekly conversations amidst the series lead and program older friend (Garofalo) in Felicity. Two television pilots starring Garofalo, the ABC show Slice O'Life about a reporter consigned be familiar with sappy human interest stories appearance at the end of talk broadcasts, and the NBC promulgation All In, based on rectitude life of poker star Annie Duke, were not picked friendly by their respective networks.

Throughout the –06 television season, Garofalo appeared on The West Wing as Louise Thornton, a push adviser to the fictional Popular presidential nominee.

In , she provided the voice for influence animated character "Bearded Clam" ring Comedy Central's Freak Show. Dense , she wrote a faithfulness for the mini-book included tight the six-DVD box-set of honesty cult series My So-Called Life.

Garofalo had segments titled "the disquisition" in several episodes pay for the season of The Physicist Rollins Show which took basis in her apartment, much pulsate the same way Rollins' segments take place at his house.^{[citation needed]} In , Garofalo spliced the cast of 24, pivot she starred as Janis Yellowness.

In , Garofalo joined honourableness cast of Ideal as Tilly. She was a cast colleague of the Criminal Minds decaying spinoff TV series Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior in ^[17]

In , she portrayed Lyla, an enjoyment lawyer, in seven episodes discovery the TV series Girlfriends' Nosh to Divorce.

In , she starred alongside most of ethics original cast in the Netflixeight-episode prequel to the comedy ep Wet Hot American Summer. Make the addition of , Garofalo starred in E4's comedy-drama series Gap Year.

Writing

Garofalo co-wrote a comedic New Dynasty Times bestseller with Ben Stiller in , titled Feel That Book: An Essential Guide make use of Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Procreative Satisfaction, a spoof of dignity self-help books prevalent at loftiness time.

She wrote her HBO Comedy Half-Hour along with resembling appearances and programs, co-wrote heavy-going sketches on The Ben Stiller Show and an episode shop the television series Head Case, and wrote and directed undiluted comedy short, Housekeeping.^{[citation needed]}

Political stomach religious views

Garofalo has been physical and outspoken regarding her bountiful political views.

She is calligraphic feminist. In an interview uncontaminated Geek Monthly magazine, she hypothetical that she was raised hoard a conservative family.^[18]

She has comed with political figures such monkey Ralph Nader (whom she spare in the election, but disinclined in ) and Jello Biafra at various events.

In , Garofalo described herself as gargantuan atheist,^[19] and participated in first-class radio interview by Freethought Tranny, a show by the Compass From Religion Foundation.^[20]

She became explain prominent as a liberal as she voiced opposition to what became the Iraq War, arrival on CNN and Fox Intelligence to discuss it.

She thought that she was approached incite groups such as and Spitting image Without War to go bear out TV, because these organizations state that the networks were battle-cry allowing antiwar voices to joke heard. Garofalo and the pander to celebrities who appeared at loftiness time said they thought their fame could lend attention disobey that side of the argument.

Her appearances on cable intelligence prior to the war garnered her praise from the evaluate and spots on the protect of Ms. and Venus Zine. Garofalo has had frequent on-air political disputes with Bill O'Reilly, Brian Kilmeade, and Jonah Goldberg.^[21]

Prior to the Iraq Hostilities, she took a position state the alleged threat posed near Saddam Hussein.

For example, hoard an interview with Tony Pigeon on a February 23, , episode of Fox News Sunday,^[22] Garofalo said of the Asian leader:

Yes, I think great deal of people are eager enter upon obtain weapons of mass execute. But there's no evidence turn he (Hussein) has weapons have possession of mass destruction.

There's been inept evidence of him testing fissionable weapons. We have people lapse are in our face buy and sell nuclear weapons. We've got Persia and North Korea. We've got a problem with Pakistan. Set your mind at rest know, I don't know what to say about that. There's a whole lot of children that are going nuclear. Remarkable I think that Saddam Saddam is actually, with the basis, the least able to assert nuclear weapons and the littlest obvious offender in that balance at this moment.

—&#;Janeane Garofalo, Fox News interview

In March , she took part in significance Code Pink anti-war march manner Washington, D.C. That autumn, she served as emcee at assorted stops on the Tell Gusto the Truth tour, a political-themed concert series featuring Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, playing field others.

Throughout the year, Garofalo also actively campaigned for Player Dean. While on Fox News' program The Pulse, O'Reilly by choice Garofalo what she would contractual obligation if her predictions that picture Iraq war would be splendid disaster were to turn incursion wrong. Garofalo stated:^[23]

I would possibility so willing to say, 'I'm sorry'.

I hope to Immortal that I can be forced a buffoon of, that be sociable will say, 'You were wicked. You were a fatalist.' Status I will go to magnanimity White House on my knees on cut glass and discipline, 'Hey, you and Thomas Economist were right I shouldn't take doubted you '

—&#;Janeane Garofalo, Witch News interview

Garofalo said she difficult to understand misgivings in about the portrayal of torture in the prod series 24 but joined glory cast because "being unemployed attend to being flattered that someone desired to work with me outweighed my stance".^[24]

In April , Garofalo drew criticism from The Educator Times when she denounced Brew Party protests, which she referred to as racist.^[25] She extended to criticize Tea Party protesters.^[26]

In February , Garofalo was criticized by conservative sites such restructuring Newsbusters for saying that then-current Republican National Committee chairman Archangel Steele suffered from Stockholm Warning sign and that "any female express person of color in excellence Republican party is struggling trade Stockholm Syndrome".^[27] She once in addition received attention and right-wing estimation in August after saying air strike Current TV's former program Countdown with Keith Olbermann that she speculated that presidential candidateHerman Man was possibly getting paid cling on to run for president to ward off from racism in the River Party, conservative movement, and Cause Party.^[28] She was criticized from one side to the ot Cain, who denied her criticisms and called them "pathetic flourishing hilarious".^[29]

Air America Radio

In late Walk , Garofalo became a co-host for Air America Radio's newborn show The Majority Report, corresponding Sam Seder.

The early generation of Air America Radio watchdog chronicled in the documentary Left of the Dial, which includes a debate between Garofalo tolerate her conservative father Carmine, who was initially a regular company on The Majority Report.

Garofalo commented on her show remark April 28, , supporting righteousness Scientology-linked New York Rescue Staff Detoxification Project, a controversial employment for workers suffering ailments suffer the loss of 9/11 clean-up efforts in Latest York City.^[30]

Personal life

Garofalo struggled interview alcoholism, giving up drinking mission ^[31][32]

Garofalo married Robert Cohen, authenticate a writer for The Eminence Stiller Show, in Las Vegas in She later explained place was intended as a barb, the pair thinking that probity marriage was not binding unless it was filed at capital local courthouse.

Cohen later became engaged to Jill Leiderman, a-okay producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live!;^[33] it was discovered later, while in the manner tha Cohen tried to marry, justness marriage was indeed legal. Say publicly union with Cohen was dissolved in ^[34]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Documentaries

Books

• Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual SatisfactionISBN&#; (with Ben Stiller)

See also

References

External links