Janeane Garofalo

I dunno. Perhaps refer to this exact thread in previous iterations: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018.......

She's 4' 11" to start with.

Janeane gets points for not going trans. In fact, she seems authentically whatever she is.

She lost weight and covered herself in hideous tattoos. She had been a cute chubby Italian-American girl. She stopped being recognizable in the 2000s.

[quote] Janeane gets points for not going trans.

Honest to god, you people are mentally ill.

She needs better representation.

She went off the deep end a bit. Quite a bit off. The plethora of hideous tatts are just the tip of the iceberg.

No computer, no social media, no this no that, blahblahblah. She's smart but not as smart as she thinks she is and she could use some real psychiatric help. Of course psychiatry is out to get her just like the gubamint and all that jazz.

I thought she always had a nice quality but she turned into a loudmouth, paranoid, political burnout. I wish she'd level out and be funny and smart again.

I liked her very much until she turned into a humorless twat waffle.

She asked if I knew where to get pills once. Otherwise, perfectly charming and fun. I didn’t know where, btw.

I sat next to her on a TWA flight once in the early 90s. She read a book the entire flight.

As a longtime fan I saw her standup act about 8 years ago and it was depressing. She was still (sort of) funny but looked old and exhausted. And instead of her previous, bright sarcastic self, she came off as self-involved and fed up. Not exactly conducive to laughs. I felt bad for her.

Being latinx probably held her back. She was never a big star. She was portrayed as super fug in The Truth about Cats and Dogs. LOL. A big star would never be dissed so harsh like dat.

You're on crack, r12. She was never perceived as being latinx, she was never thought of as ugly either. Oh maybe by stupid teen girls and boys but not by normal people.

What held Janeane back was Janeane and her big mouth. Plus all the drugs and the paranoia didn't help.

The low effort you put into this racebait, r12, is more offensive than the actual racebait.

She aged out.

Her brother is a really nice pediatric oncologist at a major hospital,very cute gay guy.

What kind of wigs does she wear?

She kind of lost her sanity for a bit and seemed quite diminished after.

Was she a big Bernie Sanders supporter or am I thinking of Sarah (also looney) Silverman?

I've always liked her but never considered her a 'big star' as OP describes. She was more of a niche comedian.

R13 Fuck off with yo racist crap, mama. Janeane was very proud of being latinx.

What a mean hag

She seems very much like a relic of the 90s. Never really got with the times.

Is she a they/ them?

She should transition and write an autobiography

Does it really need to be pointed out that she's Italian American on her father's side?

R25, why is this triggering you??

And not "Latinx" at all.

Because she's the quintessential "alternative" Gen-Xer and her shtick barley evolved out of the 90s. That's why.

I was just thinking about her the other day and how weird it was that Hollywood tried so hard to make her happen in the 90s.

You wouldn't see that now.

I was just thinking about her the other day and how weird it was that Hollywood tried so hard to make her happen in the 90s.

You wouldn't see that now.

I like Janeane but she was never a 'big star.'

I suspect that her unbathed, pastey-white looks and 2000s-style jet-black-dyed hair went out of style with her fans and the general public, eventually.

R9 what kind of pills? She just came up to you and asked where to get pills? Lmao.

Looks dykey

How many times can we have the same thread on this bitch?

Got political. Last I saw. She should just tell stories. I think she can always be used as an elder now in a film or tv show. A sassy older woman type. She needs to fix her hair and stop dressing like Oscar Madison.

Poor Janeane went totally over the edge when George Bush was elected. It was a shame. She even tried to become a political pundit and hit all the cable news network argument shows. I think her Air America program was their lowest rated.

She was never a big star. They tried to make her a star. They tried that several times.

Her dry wit was good when she was an edgy Gen-X siren, giving voice to the aimless bitching of the MTV Generation and their overlooked-genius complex. Generation X outgrew that attitude, but JG never did. You know how Alanis Morissette sold a billion records with her 28 year-old angst, but then she grew up and found happiness, and now her music sounds entirely different? Garofalo never had that. She's stuck on her debut album, if you will. And people have long since stopped listening.

To make matters worse, she got increasingly shrill in her politics. People stopped buying tickets to her shows and movies, so she tried a Franken-esque pivot to political commentary. Sadly, she couldn't match Al Franken (or even Dennis Miller) in the commentary department, so she wound up on Air America as Rachel Maddow's uneducated cousin.

"Lisa Lampanelli is an unfunny, overweight, female comic. She's seven shitty movies away from being Janeane Garofalo. And you might ask 'Why slam Janeane when she isn't here to defend herself?' And the truth is, I've met Janeane Garofalo, and she's a fucking cunt!" - Artie Lange

I'm not certain being criticized by Artie Lange ( or anybody else in the Howard Stern orbit ) really reflects badly on Janeane but nonetheless she self destructed like the tape on Mission Impossible. I genuinely wish she could have held it together.

[quote] She's 4' 11" to start with.

Just like Armond Rizzo.

And please stop saying Latinx. It's an insult.

She's actually stated that she has sabotaged her own career many many times over.

She only made it 1 season on that Bravo show - which was a fucking shame. They replaced her - and supposedly for good reason.

She's hard to work with - all the time. It's really unfortunate - but she readily admits it herself.

She confirmed she wasn’t Daria. Dumb cunt. She shoulda went with it.

Her official website is pretty sad and was abandoned in 2016.

She's as associated with the '90s as the Bee-Gees are with disco.

How does she support herself?

Disability?

[quote] She shoulda went with it.

As in Went with the Wind.

Oh, dear.

She never should've left Larry Sanders for SNL.

She’s Italian-Irish according omniscient Wikipedia. That explains half of the alcoholism.

Happy 59th Birthday!

I think she had a fairly typical career arc. She got fairly big, if not a mega-star. Last thing I saw her in was episodes of Broad City. I usually enjoyed her. She's essentially 90s canon. I think I read on one of the numerous other JG threads that she doesn't do much social media posting, and that's one reason why if you're not affirmatively trying to seek her out, she's basically disappeared.

She hit her no-longer-cute years. that's what. A pretty young woman with a give-no-fucks smart mouth and a stinging sense of humor is unusual enough to get a lot of attention, but there's a bazillion middle-aged women like that, and nobody writes movie roles for them.

And yes, Jeannene, you've always been a looker. Pretty rather than a stunner, but you were never right for those plain-Jane roles you played when you were young.

Love her.

I think she did well with the plain Jane roles. We're talking Hollywood plain Jane, not everyday plain Jane.

Haven’t thought of her in years but loved her in Romy and Michelle.

She was good in Copland with Stallone and DeNiro. I'm too lazy to Google but wasn't she in a Sopranos episode with Sandra Bernhardt?

Oh gawd please don’t summon the Janeane lover troll.

I'm already here.

r57 Yes..playing an actress making a movie in a Christopher episode.

R60 Thank you!

Brand new interview with Janeane Garofalo on David Cross's "Senses Working Overtime".

I always liked her. She was smart to leave SNL during a dismal era but Michael’s may have blacklisted her. She made mediocre movies.

Is "Why has her stardom diminished?" the new "Straight down the shitter"?

She was the lead character in The Matchmaker (1997) which seemed an odd choice for a film very much of it's time - as nearly all of her films were. A sort of parallel to Parker Posey but whinier and less charming.

She became very political at about the time her she stopped doing so many films. Instead she was appear as a commentator or an interview subject or, more rarely it seemed, as a comedian of a sort more than an actress. She seemed a bit unstable and walking a very narrow edge for a while.

I didn't dislike her, but she was part to like in her political phase (even if I agreed with her) and after that she was not seen so often.

Hilarious as the foul mouthed weird girl in Romy and Michelle.

R9, she has or had a substantial amphetamine addiction. This was about 15 years ago so things change.

The funniest bit she ever did was the Lady Fair cigarette thing in Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion.

I smoke and almost every time I light up I think of that scene and Garofalo R68. I'm a quick smoker so that's why I think of "twice the taste in half the time for the girl on the go"...

I'm a gay man though.

R69, I'm a former smoker who loved sucking down a loosely packed cigarette, too.

So it wasn't just me R70/R68! Love it!

The day has come. Today, the queen and my crush Janeane Garofalo turns 60. She'll always be eternally young to me. Hip, cool, and everything else.

Still hoping for that comeback, and I know she is too.

Happy Birthday, Janeane. Try to cut out the smokes. Buy a new wig or two.

As if overnight Janeane Garofalo started presenting as a deeply unhappy, troubled, agitated woman, and that hadn't been her comedy persona at all up until then. She then got scarily thin, lost her looks and seemed very upset with everyone about everything.

That's why her career vanished.

R73 Bullshit.