Background

Garofalo's father is an Italian-American former executive named Carmine Garofalo & her Irish-American mother Joan, world health organization died of cancer, was it used to be that the secretary. In the period of senior high, her personal relocated to Houston, Texas, where the trauma of the move prompted her famously self-loathing acerbic persona to run to blossom. When researching history at Providence College, Garofalo entered a comedy talent look for sponsored per Showtime cable network, winning a title of "Funniest Person in Rhode Island." Her original gimmick was to see remove of her hand, which was non successful inside subsequent performances. Dreaming of earning the slot on the writing staff of the Late Night With David Letterman program, she became the agency standup upon graduating college using degrees around History & Our contries Studies however struggled for a total of years, working briefly as a bike messenger in Boston. Of these nighttime inside 1991 she & her so-boyfriend Rob Cohen, mayhap right-known for existence the Mad TV writer, married and whilst it broke higher it never bothered to prevent their marriage; Garofalo has noted that were she ever to obviously hook up with over again she's for certain she would develop there are no condition receiving an annulment. Romantically Garofalo has been linked by having Ben Stiller, Craig Bierko, and many musicians.

Entertainment Career

Comedy

A winner of many comedy awards & recognitions, she officially began her career inside stand-up comedy in the early 1990s during the grunge era. Her appearance was typically around line sustaining filth style: rumpled by owning heavy blacken glasses & unkempt hair. Her comedy is typically self-deprecating; she rib of popular culture and the pressures fictive women to satisfy media-created person ideals.

Garofalo occurs as self-described pessimist: "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." [http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/janeanegar163727.html]

Garofalo's comedy shows require her & her notebook, which is filled sustaining years' worth of article clippings & random observations that she utilizes for information when you took her work for directly quotes, when by using fresh articles, & to enhance hundreds of thousands of people, fully colloquial nature and severity of her standup. Garofalo feels she doesn't tell jokes however makes observations & hopefully gets laughs; this approach is very much further amusing to numerous audience members than the memorized, possibly mundane placed.

TV
Her television series debut was on the short-lived The Ben Stiller Show on Fox in 1992, on which she was the cast member alongside longtime friends Ben Stiller, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Dick, and David Cross (who was a trifle streaming video player). a risk meeting on the placed of the indicate led her to exist as offered the role of Paula on The Larry Sanders Show on HBO, earning her two Emmy Award nominations in 1996 & 1997.

As a consequence A Ben Stiller Indicate's cancellation, Garofalo joined a cast of Saturday Night Live in its ill-fated 1994-95 year. When elaborated inside Tom Shale's book Live From Saturday Night and mentioned in Jay Mohr's Gasping for Airtime : Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live Garofalo was unhappy on a show, citing feeble lesson & the sexist atmosphere among the writers. She left around January 1995, mid-year.

Garofalo has been offered several television series roles however has accepted pack; e.g., she turned down a role of Monicthe, a role written by owning her or even her nature & severity inside mind and for which she was the 1st actress offered, on the hit NBC sitcom Friends. Both Garofalo-starring television pilots, an ABC show called ''Slice O'Life, just about a newsperson sentenced to sappy individual interest stories that pop up at the prevent of news broadcast, & an NBC program called Everthing Within'' according to a personal life & broker successes of poker star Annie Duke, were not picked higher by their several networks.

Garofalo has appeared in numbers of comedy software download & across the preceding couple years get a regular guest commentator in political chat show. Within spring 2003, Garofalo appeared in cable news all over One c days, speaking just about a Iraq War. The kind of her comments spark tilt by using conservativist, including the February 2005 appearance in MSNBC in which she denounced Republicans for ink-staining their fingers to show solidarity with Iraqi elector. Garofalo explained that she thought this artful & likened it to the Nazi salute.

Within 2005, she filmed two or three episodes when a guest, appearing as campaign adviser to Jimmy Smits' character, on The West Wing.

Movies
Garofalo's 1st critically-acclaimed starring role witharound film was in 1996 in The Truth About Cats and Dogs. a independent film, whose final script Garofalo avowedly abhorred, was a surprise hit, sooner or later becoming first at the pack professional. A mid-1990s were what Garofalo has termed a height of her popularity. Prior to A Truth Just about Cats & Dogs, she was seeable from either television operate & memorable supporting roles around films like Reality Bites, Bye Bye Love and Now and Then and a leading role in I Shot a Man in Vegas. Garofalo hwhen got the kind of leading, supporting, & cameo roles around films when diverse as Steal This Movie, Cop Land, Dog Park, Wet Hot American Summer, Clay Pigeons, Southland Tales, The MatchMaker, Sweethearts, 200 Cigarettes, ''Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Dogma, The Cable Guy, Permanent Midnight, Duane Hopwood, Mystery Men and The Search for John Gissing'', among others. Around April 2004 she was selected by Comedy Central as one of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.

Politics
Garofalo has been open & outspoken on her political views, & this was particularly a outbreak once she voiced opposition to what became a 2003 Iraq War, appearing on CNN and Fox News to discuss it. She said that she was approached by groups like MoveOn.org and Win Without War to go on TV, as the networks weren't allowing antiwar voices to be heard. Garofalo & the more celebrities world health organization appeared at a instance said it thought their fame may lend attention to a side it believed was existence ignored per corporate media. Her appearances in cable news before a war garnered her praise from either a left & spots on the handle of Ms. & Venus magazines. Garofalo has got frequent in-air political disputes using Bill O'Reilly, Brian Kilmeade and Jonah Goldberg. [http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg022803.asp]

Withwithin March 2003, she participate in the Code Pink antiwar march in Inland northwest, D.C. That fall, she served when host at many blocks on the "Tell Us the Truth" tour, the political-themed concert series featuring Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, & others. Throughout a month, Garofalo as well actively campaigned for Howard Dean.

Around 2004, she was lampooned for her liberal views around Team America: World Police; a puppet version of herself, collaborating by having North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, met a ghastly fate in the course of the picture. Her puppet was one of many depictions of left-leaning celebrities. Garofalo has universally denied existence distinctive using a likes of Susan Sarandon and Alec Baldwin as just an additional Hollywood liberal since, she contends, she doesn't sleep in Hollywood nor has she ever seen a mainstream successes Hollywood actors use at times; instead, she is non mortal world health organization for privacy's sake feels a require to get into any form of disguise. In her Air America Radio program, Garofalo lamented that her political efforts are then typically written off when celebrity activism, however this was a simply tool all about Team Us's parody of her by which she publicly expressed existence bothered. Late a single nighttime inside November 2004, en route from either Air America Radio to her flat, she ran into Team Usa creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who were hesitant to produce directly eye call for even sustaining or speak to her. Her merely response was to ask a two in case it may give her the puppet.

As the initiate she is better known for existence a seeable section of the anti-war movement, but she is included inside & passionate astir several more political issues likewise.

Air America Radio
Within late March 2004 she became a co-persons for Air America Radio's new indicate The Majority Report alongside Sam Seder. Garofalo another time said catching on the radio was an early career goal of hers. A program ad: "The battle to reclaim America from the forces of darkness continues with hosts Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder." A early times of Air United states of america Radio come chronicled in the infotainment Left of the Dial, which includes the debate between Janeane & her conservative father Carmine, world health organization was at the start a regular guest on The Majority Report.

Filmography

Movies
''Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) (voice) Late for Dinner (1991) That's What Women Want (1992) Suspicious (1994) Reality Bites (1994) Bye Bye Love (1995) I Shot A Man In Vegas (1995) Coldblooded (1995) Now And Then (1995) Sweethearts (1996) Mr. Show with Bob and David: Fantastic Newness (1996) The Truth About Cats and Dogs (1996) The Cable Guy (1996) Larger Than Life (1996) Touch (1997) Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) The Matchmaker (1997) Cop Land (1997) Clay Pigeons (1998) Thick as Thieves (1998) Permanent Midnight (1998) Half Baked (1998) The Thin Pink Line (1998) The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999) Torrance Rises (1999) Mystery Men (1999) Dogma (1999) The Independent (1999) 200 Cigarettes (1999) The Minus Man (1999) Dog Park (2000) Steal This Movie (2000) Titan A.E. (2000) The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) The Cherry Picker (2000) What Planet Are You From? (2000) The Laramie Project (2001) The Search For John Gissing (2001) Wet Hot American Summer (2001) Housekeeping (2001) Martin & Orloff (2002) Big Trouble (2002) The Laramie Project (HBO; 2002) Manhood (Showtime; 2003) Wonderland (2003) Nobody Knows Anything! (2003) Junebug and Hurricane (2004) Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004) Duane Hopwood (2005) Nadine in Date Land (2005) Stay (2005) Southland Tales (2005)

Documentaries
Left of the Dial (2005), HBO Outlaw Comic: The Censoring of Bill Hicks (2003) Dangerous Living: Coming Out In The Developing World (2003) New York: A Documentary Film (1999)

Television
In the Life, PBS TV Nation, NBC, Fox The Chris Rock Show, HBO The Larry Sanders Show, HBO The Ben Stiller Show, Fox Saturday Night Live, NBC Seinfeld Newsradio, NBC Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Cartoon Network Law & Order, NBC Late Night with Conan O'Brien Now with Bill Moyers, PBS The Daily Show Janeane Garofalo (1997) (hour-long standup special) The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn The King of Queens, CBS Shorties Watching Shorties The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC Primetime Glick Mad About You (series finale) Home Improvement The Belzer Connection, SciFi Channel Pilot Season Tanner On Tanner, Sundance Channel Stella, Comedy Central Felicity Hannity & Colmes, Fox News Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO Comic Remix Jimmy Kimmel Live The Rosie O'Donnel Show Dennis Miller Live The Sopranos, HBO King of the Hill, Fox Ellen Dinner for Five, IFC The West Wing, NBC

Bibliography
To People Astir to Salute, I May Rock Wise shoppers (2006) The collection of political essays. Sense This Book: An Essential Decision to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, & Sexual Satisfaction'' ISBN 0694521469 (w/ Ben Stiller)