40 Facts About Janeane Garofalo

Janeane Garofalo is an American comedian, actress, and former co-host on Air America Radio's The Majority Report.

Janeane Garofalo has been a series regular on television programs such as The West Wing, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, 24, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, and Ideal.

Janeane Garofalo was born in Newton, New Jersey, the daughter of Joan and Carmine Janeane Garofalo.

Janeane Garofalo's mother, a secretary in the petrochemical industry, died of cancer when Janeane was 24; her father is a former Exxon executive.

Janeane Garofalo grew up in various places, including: Ontario, California; Madison, New Jersey; and Houston, Texas, where she graduated from James E Taylor High School.

Janeane Garofalo has said that she disliked life in Houston because of the heat and humidity and the emphasis on prettiness and sports in high school.

Janeane Garofalo struggled to make a living for a number of years, even working briefly as a bike messenger in Boston.

Janeane Garofalo had a disheveled appearance when performing, with thick black glasses and unkempt hair.

Janeane Garofalo's comedy is often self-deprecating; she has made fun of popular culture and the pressures on women to conform to body image ideals promoted by the media.

When in San Francisco, Janeane Garofalo was a frequent guest at the San Francisco Comedy Condo.

Janeane Garofalo has said that she does not tell jokes as much as make observations designed to get laughs.

Janeane Garofalo was part of the alternative comedy scene in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, appearing at Un-Cabaret and other venues and co-created the "Eating It" alternative stand-up comedy show, which ran at Luna Lounge on the Lower East Side of New York City between 1995 and 2005, frequently hosting the show and appearing as a performer.

Janeane Garofalo appeared on HBO's Comedy Half-Hour and Comedy Hour specials in 1995 and 1997, respectively, among similar subsequent appearances, including a one-hour stand-up special entitled If I May, performed at Seattle's Moore Theatre that aired on Epix in June 2010 and was released on DVD in September 2010.

Janeane 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.

Janeane Garofalo played a supporting role in Jiminy Glick in Lalawood in 2004.

Janeane Garofalo 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.

Janeane Garofalo starred in the 2015 film 3rd Street Blackout.

Janeane Garofalo said that many of the sketches were "juvenile and homophobic".

Janeane Garofalo provided the voice for the weekly conversations between the series lead and an older friend in Felicity.

Janeane Garofalo had segments titled "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.

In 2009, Janeane Garofalo joined the cast of 24, where she starred as Janis Gold.

In 2010, Janeane Garofalo joined the cast of Ideal as Tilly.

Janeane Garofalo was a cast member of the Criminal Minds short-lived spinoff TV series Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior in 2011.

In 2017, Janeane Garofalo starred in E4's comedy-drama series Gap Year.

Janeane Garofalo wrote her HBO Comedy Half-Hour along with similar appearances and programs, co-wrote some sketches on The Ben Stiller Show and an episode of the television series Head Case, and wrote and directed a 2001 comedy short, Housekeeping.

Janeane Garofalo has been open and outspoken regarding her liberal political views.

Janeane Garofalo has appeared with political figures such as Ralph Nader and Jello Biafra at various events.

In 2007, Janeane Garofalo described herself as an atheist, and participated in a radio interview by Freethought Radio, a show by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Janeane Garofalo became more prominent as a liberal when she voiced opposition to what became the 2003 Iraq War, appearing on CNN and Fox News to discuss it.

Janeane Garofalo said that she was approached by groups such as MoveOn.

Janeane Garofalo has had frequent on-air political disputes with Bill O'Reilly, Brian Kilmeade, and Jonah Goldberg.

For example, in an interview with Tony Snow on a February 23,2003, episode of Fox News Sunday, Janeane Garofalo said of the Iraqi leader:.

Janeane 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".

In February 2009, Janeane Garofalo said on Countdown With Keith Olbermann on MSNBC that then-current Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele suffered from Stockholm Syndrome and that "any female or person of color in the Republican party is struggling with Stockholm Syndrome".

Janeane Garofalo received attention and right-wing criticism again in August 2011 after saying on Current TV's former program Countdown with Keith Olbermann that she speculated that 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain was possibly being paid to run for president to deflect from racism in the Republican Party, conservative movement, and Tea Party.

Janeane Garofalo was criticized by Cain, who denied her criticisms and called them "pathetic and hilarious".

In late March 2004, Janeane Garofalo became a co-host for Air America Radio's new show The Majority Report, alongside Sam Seder.

Janeane Garofalo dedicated a number of episodes of "Majority Report" to the program and brought conflict between her and her co-host Sam Seder.

Janeane Garofalo married Robert Cohen, then a writer for The Ben Stiller Show, in Las Vegas in 1991.

Janeane Garofalo later explained it was intended as a joke, the pair thinking that the marriage was not binding unless it was filed at a local courthouse.