Janeane Garofalo

Janeane Garofalo
Garofalo in 2012
Birth name	Janeane Marie Garofalo
Born	(1964-09-28) September 28, 1964 (age 56) Newton, New Jersey, U.S.
Medium	Stand-up film television radio
Years active	1985–present
Genres	Alternative comedy
Subject(s)	American politics films feminism celebrities body image
Spouse	Robert Cohen ​ ​ (m. 1991;div. 2012)​
Website	janeanegarofalo.com

Janeane Marie Garofalo ( /dʒəˈniːnɡəˈrɒfəloʊ/ ; born September 28, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actress and writer. Garofalo began her career as a stand-up comedian and became a cast member on The Ben Stiller Show , The Larry Sanders Show , and Saturday Night Live , then appeared in more than 50 movies, with leading or major roles in The Truth About Cats and Dogs , Wet Hot American Summer , The Matchmaker , Reality Bites , Steal This Movie! , Clay Pigeons , Sweethearts , Mystery Men , The Minus Man , and The Independent , among numerous others. She has been a series regular on television programs such as Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp , 24 , and Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce . ^[1] Garofalo is an outspoken progressive activist. From March 2004 to July 2006, she hosted Air America Radio's The Majority Report with Sam Seder.

Early life

Garofalo was born in Newton, New Jersey, the daughter of Joan and Carmine Garofalo. Her mother, a secretary in the petrochemical industry, died of cancer when Janeane was 24. Her father is a former executive at Exxon. ^{[2] [3]} Garofalo was raised in a conservative Catholic family, ^[4] and is of Italian and Irish descent. ^[5]

She grew up in Ontario, California; Madison, New Jersey; and Katy, Texas, among other places. She was quoted as having disliked life in Texas because of the heat, humidity, and the emphasis on prettiness and sports in high school. ^{[2] [3]} While studying history at Providence College, Garofalo entered a comedy talent search sponsored by the Showtime cable network, winning the title of "Funniest Person in Rhode Island". Her original gimmick was to read off her hand, which was not successful in subsequent performances. Dreaming of earning a slot on the writing staff of the TV show Late Night with David Letterman , she became a professional standup comedian upon graduating from college with degrees in History and American Studies. ^[6]

She struggled for a number of years, working briefly as a bike messenger in Boston. ^[7] She has described herself thusly: "I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth." ^[8]

Entertainment career

Stand-up comedy

Garofalo performing stand-up comedy in 2008

Garofalo appeared in an HBO Comedy Half-Hour special in 1995, among similar subsequent appearances, including a one-hour stand-up special entitled If You Will performed at Seattle's Moore Theatre and aired on Epix in 2010, ^[9] as well as a follow-up special entitled If I May performed at San Francisco's Fillmore Theatre in 2016.

Film career

Garofalo has performed a variety of leading, supporting and cameo roles in more than 50 feature films, playing leading or large roles in Reality Bites , The Truth About Cats and Dogs , I Shot a Man in Vegas , The Matchmaker , Clay Pigeons , Steal This Movie! , Sweethearts , Mystery Men , The Independent , Wet Hot American Summer , Manhood , Ash Tuesday , and Bad Parents , among others, and supporting roles in The Cable Guy , Romy and Michele's High School Reunion , Cop Land , Half Baked , Permanent Midnight , Dogma , 200 Cigarettes , and The Wild .

Garofalo's first movie role, filmed the year before she appeared on national television, was a brief comical appearance as a counter worker in a burger joint in Late for Dinner in 1991, but her real breakthrough into film came in Reality Bites (1994) as Winona Ryder's character's Gap-managing best friend Vickie. The role helped solidify Garofalo's status as a Generation X icon.

She remained visible from television work and supporting roles in feature films such as Bye Bye Love and Now and Then , and a leading role in I Shot a Man in Vegas , until 1996 when she was cast in the starring role in the critically acclaimed romantic comedy The Truth About Cats & Dogs , a variation on Cyrano de Bergerac which featured top-billed Uma Thurman as a beautiful but dim-witted model, while Garofalo played the much larger role of Abby, a highly intelligent radio host. Initially an independent film, it became a studio movie when Thurman was signed. The film was a modest hit, but Garofalo disparaged it in 1997, claiming it was "not my kind of movie", ^[10] and also in 2003, saying, "I think it's soft and corny, and the soundtrack makes you want to puke, and everybody's dressed in Banana Republic clothing. The original script and the original intent was very different than what it wound up being when it became a studio commercial film. It was originally supposed to be a small-budget independent film where there would be much more complexity to all the characters, and Abby and the guy don't wind up together at the end." ^[11]

Based on the success of this film, a producer then offered her the leading lady role in Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise if she could lose weight; after trimming down, however, she learned that Renée Zellweger had won the part instead. ^[12]

She turned down the role of television reporter Gale Weathers in Wes Craven's Scream because she thought the film would be too violent: "I said I didn't want to be in a movie where a teen girl was disemboweled. I didn't know it turned out so good, and it was a funny movie." ^[13]

Press for Bad Parents

Following up the successful The Truth About Cats and Dogs in 1996, Garofalo played the leading role in The Matchmaker , a 1997 romantic comedy film about the misadventures of a cynical American woman who reluctantly visits Ireland. That same year, she played a supporting role as a deputy sheriff in the drama Cop Land , a police gangster film starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta and Robert DeNiro. In 1998, she performed her first voice-acting job playing "Ursula the Artist" in Disney's English dub of Studio Ghibli's Kiki's Delivery Service and briefly appeared in Permanent Midnight . In 1999, she starred as "The Bowler" in the film Mystery Men , about an underdog group of super heroes. ^[1]

In 2000, she portrayed Abbie Hoffman's wife Anita Hoffman opposite Vincent D'Onofrio as Hoffman in Steal This Movie! , involving the couple's political activism during the Vietnam War era. Later that same year, she received second billing under Jerry Stiller in a comedic film about a low-budget movie producer entitled The Independent . The following year, Garofalo was top-billed in Wet Hot American Summer , the 2001 cult comedy about an American summer camp, and starred in The Search for John Gissing . ^[1]

In 2002, she played Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project and in 2003, she starred in Manhood and Ash Tuesday , and appeared in the crime film Wonderland . She played a supporting role in Jiminy Glick in Lalawood in 2004. ^[1]

A puppet version of Garofalo appeared (and was graphically killed off) in the 2004 movie Team America: World Police ; while Garofalo was irritated by the parody, she was more upset by the filmmaker's lack of correspondence. "I ran into them in the street, Trey and the other guy, and I said to them, 'The least you could do is send me a puppet.' And they said OK, took my address down ... and never sent me a puppet! So while Team America bothered me, the fact they didn't send me my puppet, that bothered me even more." ^[14]

In 2005, she played the ex-wife of a man coping with the reverberations of a divorce in Duane Hopwood . In 2006, she performed Bridget the giraffe's voice in the computer-animated Disney feature film The Wild . In 2007, she provided the voice of Colette Tatou, a chef in the Pixar/Disney feature film Ratatouille , in which Garofalo affected a pronounced French accent for the role, appropriate for a character based on a French cook described as the world's best female chef. ^[15] She made cameo appearances in The Guitar in 2008 and Labor Pains in 2009, and starred in Bad Parents in 2012, a comedy about New Jersey soccer moms obsessing over their children's experiences playing the sport. She starred in the 2015 film 3rd Street Blackout. ^[1]

Garofalo appears as herself in the documentary film Sticky: A (Self) Love Story , released on Amazon in 2016, in which she claims that she had to get drunk on tequila to do her masturbation scene in the film Truth About Cats and Dogs. ^{[16] [17] [18] [ failed verification ]}

Television

Garofalo's big break came in 1990 after meeting Ben Stiller at Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, where they were hanging out with stand-up friends. They bonded over their "love of SCTV , early Saturday Night Live , and Albert Brooks." ^[19]

Her first exposure on national television came soon thereafter by way of her appearance as a stand-up comic on MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour. Subsequently, her first television series debut was on the short-lived Ben Stiller Show on Fox in 1992, on which she was a cast member alongside longtime friends Bob Odenkirk and Andy Dick.

A chance meeting on the set of that show led her to being offered the role of Paula on The Larry Sanders Show on HBO, earning her two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series ^[20] nominations in 1996 and 1997. For a time, she was actually working on both series simultaneously.^{[ citation needed ]}

Garofalo in 2008

After The Ben Stiller Show was cancelled, Garofalo joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (SNL) for its 1994–95 season. ^[21] She left SNL in March 1995 (mid-season) after only six months, saying that the experience left her "anxious and depressed", and that a sexist attitude pervaded the show. She said that many of the sketches were "juvenile and homophobic". ^[22] According to New York Magazine , Garofalo was "largely stuck in dull, secondary wife and girlfriend roles", and quoted her friends as saying that she considered the stint "the most miserable experience of [her] life." ^[23]

Following SNL, Garofalo appeared in a plethora of guest star roles: the grown-up daughter of the Buchmans on the final episode of Mad About You ; Jerry Seinfeld's female counterpart (and, briefly, fiancée) Jeannie Steinman on Seinfeld ; a recurring correspondent on Michael Moore's TV Nation , and a former girlfriend of Dave Foley's character on Newsradio . She provided the voice for the weekly telephone conversations between the series lead and an older friend (Garofalo) in Felicity . Two television pilots starring Garofalo, the 2003 ABC show Slice O'Life about a reporter consigned to sappy human interest stories appearing at the end of news broadcasts, and the 2005 NBC program All In, based on the life of poker star Annie Duke, were not picked up by their respective networks.

Throughout the 2005–06 television season, Garofalo appeared on The West Wing as Louise Thornton, a campaign adviser to the fictional Democratic presidential nominee.

In 2006, she provided the voice for the animated character "Bearded Clam" on Comedy Central's Freak Show . In 2007, she wrote a dedication for the mini-book included in the six-DVD box-set of the 1994 cult series My So-Called Life .

Garofalo had segments entitled "the disquisition" in several episodes of the 2007 season of The Henry Rollins Show which took place in her apartment, much in the same way Rollins' segments take place at his house.^{[ citation needed ]} In 2009, Garofalo joined the cast of 24 , where she starred as Janis Gold. In 2010, Garofalo joined the cast of Ideal as Tilly. She was a cast member of the Criminal Minds short-lived spinoff TV series Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior in 2011. ^[24]

In 2014, she portrayed Lyla, an entertainment lawyer, in seven episodes of the TV series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce . In 2015, she starred alongside most of the original cast in the Netflix eight-episode prequel to the 2001 comedy film Wet Hot American Summer . In 2017, Garofalo starred in E4's comedy-drama series Gap Year. ^[25]

Writing

Garofalo co-wrote a comedic New York Times bestseller with Ben Stiller in 1999, entitled Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction, a spoof of the self-help books so prevalent at the time. She wrote her HBO Comedy Half-Hour along with similar appearances and programs, co-wrote some sketches on The Ben Stiller Show, wrote an episode of the television series Head Case , and wrote and directed a 2001 comedy short entitled Housekeeping. ^[26]

Political views

Garofalo has been open and outspoken regarding her progressive political views. While filming The American Side in Buffalo, New York, during the summer of 2013, she became a member of a local anti-fracking organization, NYPIRG. A little over a year later, on December 17th, 2014, New York State officials passed a ban on fracking, which remains in place today. In an interview for Geek Monthly magazine, she stated that she was raised in a conservative family. ^[27]

She has appeared with political figures such as Ralph Nader (whom she supported in the 2000 election, but opposed in 2004 ^{[ citation needed ]}) and Jello Biafra at various events. In 2007, Garofalo described herself as an atheist, ^[28] and participated in a radio interview by Freethought Radio, a show by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. ^[29]

She became more prominent as a progressive when she voiced opposition to what became the 2003 Iraq War, appearing on CNN and Fox News to discuss it. She said that she was approached by groups such as MoveOn.org and Win Without War to go on TV, because these organizations say that the networks were not allowing antiwar voices to be heard. Garofalo and the other celebrities who appeared at the time said they thought their fame could lend attention to that side of the debate. Her appearances on cable news prior to the war garnered her praise from the left and spots on the cover of Ms. and Venus Zine . Garofalo has had frequent on-air political disputes with Bill O'Reilly, Brian Kilmeade, and Jonah Goldberg. ^[30]

Prior to the 2003 Iraq War, she took a position on the alleged threat posed by Saddam Hussein. For example, in an interview with Tony Snow on a February 23, 2003 episode of Fox News Sunday , ^[31] Garofalo said of the Iraqi dictator:

Yes, I think lots of people are eager to obtain weapons of mass destruction. But there's no evidence that he (Hussein) has weapons of mass destruction. There's been no evidence of him testing nuclear weapons. We have people that are in our face with nuclear weapons. We've got Iran and North Korea. We've got a problem with Pakistan. You know, I don't know what to say about that. There's a whole lot of people that are going nuclear. And I think that Saddam Hussein is actually, with the evidence, the least able to use nuclear weapons and the least obvious offender in that area at this moment.

— Janeane Garofalo, Fox News interview

In March 2003, she took part in the Code Pink anti-war march in Washington, D.C. That autumn, she served as emcee at several stops on the Tell Us the Truth tour, a political-themed concert series featuring Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, and others. Throughout the year, Garofalo also actively campaigned for Howard Dean. While on the Fox News program The Pulse, O'Reilly asked Garofalo what she would do if her predictions that the Iraq war would be a disaster were to turn out wrong. Garofalo stated: ^[32]

I would be so willing to say, 'I'm sorry'. I hope to God that I can be made a buffoon of, that people will say, 'You were wrong. You were a fatalist.' And I will go to the White House on my knees on cut glass and say, 'Hey, you and Thomas Friedman were right ... I shouldn't have doubted you ...'

— Janeane Garofalo, Fox News interview

Garofalo said she had misgivings in 2007 about the depiction of torture in the television series 24 but joined the cast because "being unemployed and being flattered that someone wanted to work with me outweighed my stance". ^[33]

In April 2009, Garofalo drew criticism from The Washington Times when she denounced Tea Party protests, which she referred to as racist. ^[34] She has continued to criticize Tea Party protesters. ^[35]

Air America Radio

In late March 2004, Garofalo became a co-host for Air America Radio's new show The Majority Report , alongside Sam Seder. The early days of Air America Radio are chronicled in the documentary Left of the Dial, which includes a debate between Garofalo and her conservative father Carmine, who was initially a regular guest on The Majority Report. ^[36]

Garofalo commented on her show of April 28, 2006 supporting the Scientology-linked New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a controversial treatment for workers suffering ailments from 9/11 clean-up efforts in New York City. ^[37]

Personal life

Garofalo married Robert Cohen, who was then a writer for The Ben Stiller Show, in Las Vegas in 1991. She later explained it was intended to be a joke, thinking the marriage was not binding unless it had been filed at a local courthouse. It was discovered later, when Cohen tried to marry someone else, that the marriage was indeed legal. The union was dissolved in 2012. ^[38]

In Garofalo's 2010 stand-up show, If You Will, she says "I don't have a fear of intimacy, I have sort of a genuine lack of interest", adding jokingly, "which is not good for my boyfriend of ten years". ^[39]

Garofalo has struggled with alcoholism in her past and has remained sober since 2001. ^{[40] [41]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Late for Dinner	Cashier
1992	That's What Women Want	Jennifer	Short
1994	Reality Bites	Vickie Miner
	Suspicious	Woman	Short film
1995	Bye Bye Love	Lucille
	I Shot a Man in Vegas	Gale
	Coldblooded	Honey
	Now and Then	Wiladene
1996	The Truth About Cats & Dogs	Abbey Barnes
	The Cable Guy	Medieval Times Waitress
	Larger Than Life	Mo
1997	Sweethearts	Jasmine
	Touch	Kathy Worthington
	Romy and Michele's High School Reunion	Heather Mooney
	The Matchmaker	Marcy Tizard
	Cop Land	Deputy Cindy Betts
1998	Clay Pigeons	Agent Dale Shelby
	Kiki's Delivery Service	Ursula	Voice — English version
	Thick as Thieves	Anne
	Permanent Midnight	Jana Farmer
	Half Baked	"I'm Only Creative When I Smoke" Smoker
	The Thin Pink Line	Joyce Wintergarden-Dingle
1999	The Bumblebee Flies Anyway	Dr. Harriman/Handyman
	Torrance Rises	Herself	Short
	Can't Stop Dancing	Belinda Peck
	Mystery Men	The Bowler/Carol
	Dogma	Liz
	The Independent	Paloma Fineman
	200 Cigarettes	Ellie
	The Minus Man	Ferrin
2000	Dog Park	Jeri
	Steal This Movie!	Anita Hoffman
	Titan A.E.	Stith	Voice
	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle	Minnie Mogul
	The Cherry Picker		Short film
	What Planet Are You From?	Nervous Woman
2001	The Laramie Project	Catherine Connolly
	The Search for John Gissing	Linda Barnes
	Wet Hot American Summer	Beth
	Housekeeping	Hotel Employee (voice)	Short film
2002	Martin & Orloff	Hairdresser
	Big Trouble	Officer Monica Romero
2003	Manhood	Jill
	Wonderland	Joy Miller
	Ash Tuesday	Liz
	Nobody Knows Anything!	Patty
2004	Jiminy Glick in Lalawood	Dee Dee
2005	Duane Hopwood	Linda
	Nadine in Date Land	Nadine Barnes	TV Movie
	Stay	Dr. Beth Levy
2006	The Wild	Bridget the Giraffe	Voice
2007	Ratatouille	Colette Tatou [42]	Voice Nominated - Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production
	Southland Tales	General Teena MacArthur
	The Ten	Beth Soden
	Then She Found Me	Herself
2008	The Guitar	Dr. Murray
2009	Labor Pains	Claire
	Love Hurts	Hannah Rosenbloom
2012	General Education	Gale Collins
	Bad Parents	Kathy
	Mighty Fine	Older Natalie (voice)
2013	Satan, Hold My Hand	Sheryl	Short
2014	A Little Game	Sarah Kuftinec
	Free the Nipple	Anouk
2015	3rd Street Blackout	June Sherman
2016	Little Boxes	Helena
	The American Side	Agent Barry
	The Happys	Luann
2017	Sandy Wexler	Herself
	Speech & Debate	Marie
	Submission	Magda Moynahan
2018	A Bread Factory	Jordan
	Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate	Magda
2019	Come as You Are	Liz
	Mercy Black	Dr. Ward
2020	Asking For It	Cheryl
	The God Committee	Dr. Valerie Gilroy	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992–1993	The Ben Stiller Show	Various characters	13 episodes
1992–1997	The Larry Sanders Show	Paula	47 episodes
1993	Tales of the City	Coppola Woman	Miniseries
1994	The Adventures of Pete & Pete	Ms. Brackett	Episode: "X=WHY?"
1994–1995	Saturday Night Live	Various characters	14 episodes
1995	Duckman	Moonbeam (voice)	Episode: "The Germ Turns"
1995	NewsRadio	Nancy	Episode: "Sweeps Week"
1995	Mr. Show with Bob and David	Wife	Episode: "What to Think"
1995	TV Nation	Correspondent
1995	HBO Comedy Half-Hour	Herself	Stand-up special
1996	Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist	Janeane (voice)	Episode: "Drinky the Drunk Guy"
1996	Ellen	Chloe Korban	Episode: "Two Mammograms and a Wedding"
1996	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Herself	Episode: "Late Show"
1996	Seinfeld	Jeannie Steinman	2 episodes
1996	1996 MTV Movie Awards	Co-host	With Ben Stiller
1997	Home Improvement	Tina	Episode: "A Funny Valentine"
1997	Law & Order	Greta Heiss	2 episodes
1997	The Chris Rock Show	Girlfriend (voice)	Episode: "#2.12"
1998	Felicity	Sally Reardon (voice)	14 episodes
1998, 2011	The Simpsons	Herself (voice)	2 episodes
1999	Mad About You	Mabel Buchman	Episode: "The Final Frontier"
2000	The Sopranos	Herself	Episode: "D-Girl"
2000	Strangers with Candy	Cassie Pines	2 episodes
2000	Ed	Liz Stevens	Episode: "Pilot"
2003	King of the Hill	Sheila (voice)	Episode: "Night and Deity"
2004	The King of Queens	Trish	Episode: "Cheap Saks"
2004	Aqua Teen Hunger Force	Donna (voice)	Episode: "Hypno-Germ"
2004	Tanner on Tanner	Herself	2 episodes
2005	Stella	Jane Burroughs	Episode: "Novel"
2005–2006	The West Wing	Louise Thornton	15 episodes
2006	Freak Show	The Bearded Clam (voice)	7 episodes
2006	Tom Goes to the Mayor	Herself (voice)	Episode: "Couple's Therapy"
2007	Two and a Half Men	Sharon	Episode: "Media Room Slash Dungeon"
2008	Girl's Best Friend	Mary	Television film
2008	Wainy Days	David's Mom	Episode: "Angel"
2009	Greek	Professor Freeman	Episode: "Endangered Species"
2009	24	Janis Gold	21 episodes
2009	Head Case	Herself	Episode: "The Wedding Ringer"
2010	The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret	Brent's Boss	Episode: "Where Todd and Brent Misjudge the Mood of a Solemn Day"
2010–2011	Ideal	Tilly	13 episodes
2011	Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior	Beth Griffith	13 episodes
2012	Metalocalypse	Abigail Remeltindrinc (voice)	5 episodes
2012	Ugly Americans	(voice)	Episode: "The Dork Knight"
2012–2013	Delocated	Susan Shapiro	9 episodes
2014	Inside Amy Schumer	Sharon Overwood	Episode: "Slow Your Roll"
2014–2015	Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce	Lyla	7 episodes
2014–2015	Broad City	Monica	2 episodes
2015	Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp	Beth	7 episodes
2015	The Jim Gaffigan Show	Eve	3 episodes
2016	Nightcap	Janeane Garofalo	Episode: "The Horny Host"
2017	Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special	Herself	Variety special
2017	Gap Year	Sam	2 episodes
2017	Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later	Beth	7 episodes
2018	Baroness von Sketch Show	Herself / Pay Equity Meeting Attendee / Lawyer	Episode: "Sex and Things and Whispers"
2018	The Shivering Truth	(voice)	Main role
2019	Stumptown	Janet Withers	Episode: "Bad Alibis"

Music videos

• "Angel Mine" (Cowboy Junkies) (1996)

Documentaries

• New York: A Documentary Film (1999)
• Outlaw Comic: The Censoring of Bill Hicks (2003)
• Dangerous Living: Coming Out In The Developing World (2003)
• Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2003)
• Left of the Dial (2005), HBO
• I Am Comic (2010)
• Misery Loves Comedy (2015)
• Sticky: A (Self) Love Story (2016)

Books

• Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction ISBN   0-694-52146-9 (with Ben Stiller)

See also

• Saturday Night Live parodies of Hillary Clinton

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• Janeane Garofalo at Emmys.com
• Appearances on C-SPAN

Preceded by Courteney Cox and Jon Lovitz	MTV Movie Awards host 1996 (with Ben Stiller)	Succeeded by Mike Myers