“I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.”
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Janeane Garofalo
Janeane Garofalo is an American comedian and actress. The accolades she has received include nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Born 28 September 1964 · Q40143
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2026· 6 entries
“I think we all remember where we were when Rush Hour hit the water. That was an important day.”
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“To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.”
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“The notebook. Yes, as you know Garofalo's a little forgetful. Has to bring her notebook. Between the Nutrasweet and the Fen-phen, I don't know whether to shit or wind my watch at this point. I gotta have a thing happening here because I don't wanna forget what I wanna discuss with you. I owe you that much.”
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“I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person — as the people in this room will attest.”
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“linked to Jews instead of Scientologists.”
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2021· 2 entries
The Cheat Sheet: Where Is Janeane Garofalo of ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ Now?
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Yahoo: ‘Younger’ Adds Janeane Garofalo As Recurring In Final Season
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2020· 1 entry
People: Edward Norton Says Janeane Garofalo Is 'Mistaken' for Thinking He Cost Her a 'Fight Club' Role
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2019· 2 entries
In 2019, Garofalo publicly came out as asexual.
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Garofalo publicly came out as asexual
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “If I May”.
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Garofalo starred in E4's comedy-drama series Gap Year
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2015· 1 entry
Starred alongside most of the original cast in the Netflix eight-episode prequel to the 2001 comedy film Wet Hot American Summer
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2014· 2 entries
Yahoo: Janeane Garofalo Separating From ‘Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce’
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Portrayed Lyla, an entertainment lawyer, in seven episodes of the TV series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “If You Will, Live In Seattle”.
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Garofalo joined the cast of Ideal as Tilly
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2009· 3 entries
Conservative website and magazine Townhall reported that Garofalo once said "Our country is founded on a sham
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“Our country is founded on a sham. Our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go,”
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Garofalo joined the cast of 24, where she starred as Janis Gold
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2008· 1 entry
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
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2007· 4 entries
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 describ
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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"
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Garofalo described herself as an atheist, and participated in a radio interview by Freethought Radio, a show by the Freedom From Religion Foundation
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Wrote a dedication for the mini-book included in the six-DVD box-set of the 1994 cult series My So-Called Life
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2006· 2 entries
Performed Bridget the giraffe's voice in the animated Disney feature film The Wild
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Provided the voice for the animated character "Bearded Clam" on Comedy Central's Freak Show
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2005· 6 entries
“...because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media, WE DON'T HAVE NEWS! We don't have an informed populous and we don't have a democracy... Everyone in the world knows that America, (in its current state, because of right-wingers) that the right wing arm of this country (that speaks for this country unfortunately) has no credibility when it comes to human rights or independent media.”
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“There's nothing wrong with the word conspiracy. It just means 'to breathe together'.”
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“Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.”
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“Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.”
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“To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.”
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Played the ex-wife of a man coping with the reverberations of a divorce in Duane Hopwood
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2004· 2 entries
“It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.”
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“[Conservative talk radio hosts] have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.”
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2003· 2 entries
“There's always [on women's magazines] that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?'”
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“I think that by staying out of shape at the age of 33 I'm doing myself a huge favor for my future. There will never be anyone commenting on how I've 'let myself go.' I've gone. It's gone. It's not going, it's GONE.”
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2002· 1 entry
Played Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project and in 2003, she starred in Manhood and Ash Tuesday, and appeared in the crime film Wonderland
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Emperor Has No Clothes Award (2001).
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Garofalo struggled with alcoholism, giving up drinking in 2001.
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2000· 1 entry
Portrayed Abbie Hoffman's wife Anita Hoffman opposite Vincent D'Onofrio as Hoffman in Steal This Movie
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1999· 2 entries
Titled Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction, a spoof of the self-help books prevalent at the time
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Starred as "The Bowler" in the film Mystery Men, about an underdog group of super heroes
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1998· 1 entry
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
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1997· 11 entries
“Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins...and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top.”
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“When I see guys in bars wearing the real fitted kind of Calvin Klein v-neck t-shirts I just want to go up to them and be like, 'Oh, do you work out? Your tricep looks so great - thank you.'”
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“You know what is good about these Dixie Chicks burnings or bashings? It's a wonderful, wonderful way for really stupid people to hook up. They meet, they throw some things on the fire, they talk about Vin Diesel, they tell stories about who their favorite Fox anchor is, they exchange phone numbers and in some cases has led to marriages.”
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“Granted, not really a joke, but how often do you get a mic in your hand? You know? So. I am sorry but don't anybody trip on my soap box on the way out. Don't anybody trip over that. And the chip on my shoulder's a little heavy. I have back problems now.”
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“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.”
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“Nationalism and patriotism in the wrong hands will destroy lives, it really will, because I'll tell you something: it takes a village to ruin a child. I think we've proven that time and time again in this country.”
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“No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!”
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“But let me ask you this though, first and foremost: who's your favorite Spice Girl? Mine is Sporty Spice and I'll tell you why. You know what? She might not be as aesthetically pleasant as the rest but she'll do a backflip and steal your heart.”
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“The camera adds ten pounds. Why? What, we don't have the technology to remedy that one little thing? We can have fucking Forrest Gump cohorting with John F. Kennedy, and we can't just fix that one little thing, the ten pound variant on a lens...You can actually levitate now when you watch a movie about flying, but they just don't have the technology for that ten pound margin of error.”
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“You know George W. Bush is a war-time president, he says - proudly. Guess what. War is failure! When you are at war, you have failed! When you have gone to a war of choice and lied about it, you're a double-triple, triple-quadruple failure! Or a warlord. It's called a warlord in other countries. A war time president here. One man's ceiling I guess is another man's floor. George Bush is a warlord. He's a failure!”
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“It sounds like I'm always being facetious. That's why I never get voice over work. 'You sound like you hate the product.'”
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1996· 1 entry
Was cast in the starring role in the romantic comedy The Truth About Cats & Dogs, a variation on Cyrano de Bergerac, which featured Uma Thurman in the top-billed but smaller role as a beautiful but vapid model, while
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1995· 1 entry
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 Septe
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1992· 1 entry
On which she was a cast member alongside longtime friends Bob Odenkirk and Andy Dick
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1990· 1 entry
After meeting Ben Stiller at Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, where they were hanging out with stand-up friends
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1964· 1 entry
Born 1964-09-28.
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