There is a province in Italy called Garofalo. There was an Italian High Renaissance painter named Garofalo who was a student of Raphael. There are at least two Italian actors listed in the Internet Movie Database named Garofalo. Frank Garofalo was at the famous Mafia sitdown in Italy where the international distribution of heroin was discussed. Yada, yada, yada. Herewith, we present factoids and tidbits about La Femme Garofalo.

Julia Roberts made Janeane Garofalo cry

Comedienne JANEANE GAROFALO lost the chance to star alongside JULIA ROBERTS in MONA LISA SMILE when she burst into tears during the audition read through with the PRETTY WOMAN star. The Truth About Cats Dogs star was among the actresses considered for the role of etiquette professor Nancy Abbey in the film, but she lost her cool when movie star Roberts agreed to read with her. Garofalo tells Entertainment Weekly magazine, "She even took the time to give me a pep talk. She's Julia Roberts - she doesn't have to read with anyone. "It was so much pressure that I burst into tears and wept at the reading. I was overcome with the feeling that I was going to let her down.

"The director told my agent, 'That's one of the worst auditions I have ever seen.'" The role was eventually given to Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden.

-- ContactMusic.com

Strange 

Following the international success of "The Truth about Cats and Dogs," Janeane had a highly profitable but illicit mail order business selling her used panties to rich Japanese businessmen until it was shut down by the California Department of Health.

Stranger

Among her 24 tattoos is one on her buttocks that reads "Insert tab A into slot B."

Strangest

Janeane Garofalo was offered a role on "Desperate Housewives" but producers changed their minds after they learned that digitally touching up her pizza free-radical ravaged face for high definition television would use up the entire budget for retouching.

You can look it up

Janeane Garofalo is not listed in the 2007 edition of the World Book.

It's all true

Janeane was referred to as "little Miss Botox" (hey, where did you think close friend Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher and editor of The Nation, got the idea for her Botox treatments?) and "the Drama Queen" on "The Majority Report" radio show bulletin boards.

It's a small world, after all

Not only did Janeane Garofalo do radio spots for "The Nation," but she also gets her Botox from the same high-end Manhattan dermatologist as gal pal Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation. 

JaneaneHenge

There is a nasty old coot named John Leeper, AKA "Farmer," building a shrine to Janeane Garofalo in the middle of nowhere, Tennessee.

FlyntStoned

Larry Flynt, sensing a kindred spirit in Janeane Garofalo (they both like women, have nasty minds, loathe George W. Bush and have ultra-leftist politics), once offered the job of editor-in-chief of "Hustler" magazine to Janeane Garofalo.

Like the Flynt family, Janeane has contributed money to Cleveland politician Dennis Kucinich. Her friend, Amy Goodman of the "Democracy Now" radio show on the Pacifica network, wrote an essay on the "economic hitman" for "Hustler" magazine. The "economic hitman" was a frequent guest on Janeane's radio show, "The Majority Report."

She was tempted by the six-figure salary and easy access to gullible young attractive women, but turned it down because she feared the opprobrium of her "feminist" friends.

Janeane Garofalo used to torture Iraqis

 "I tortured people," said Lagouranis, 37, who was a military intelligence specialist in Iraq from January 2004 until January 2005. "You have to twist your mind up so much to justify doing that."

Being an interrogator, Lagouranis discovered, can be torture. At first, he was eager to try coercive techniques. In training at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., instructors stressed the Geneva Conventions, he recalled, while classmates privately admired Israeli and British methods. "The British were tough," Lagouranis said. "They seemed like real interrogators."...

Not long ago in Iraq, he felt "absolute power," he said, over men kept in cages. Lagouranis had forced a grandfather to kneel all night in the cold and bombarded others in metal shipping containers with the tape of the self-help parody "Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction," by comedians Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo. ("They hated it," Lagouranis recalled. "Like, 'Please! Just stop that voice!' ")

-- The Washington Post

Janeane Garofalo beats Barack Obama 

On Yahoo! Search, anyway.

Source: Yahoo! Buzz, April 2, 2008

Yahoo Star Searches: Popular Actors

1. Bridget Moynahan
2. Kimberly Elise
3. Kristen Bell
4. Jennifer Lopez
5. Janeane Garofalo
6. Angelina Jolie

An urban myth

Contrary to popular belief, Janeane Garofalo did not put the Ho in SoHo. "Houston Street, the lower Manhattan thoroughfare that put the Ho in SoHo..." -- The New York Times, August 30, 2007

Ted Bell to Janeane Garofalo: eat in the kitchen!

Speaking on tonight's Phil Hendrie Show, Ted Bell of Ted's of Beverly Hills Steakhouse revealed that former Air America hostess Janeane Garofalo dropped by his establishment to view tonight's Iraq speech from president Bush. And, Ted told her she had to eat in the kitchen instead of being able to eat in the main dining room with Danny Glover, Glenn Close, Susan Sarandon, and other celebrities!

He diplomatically explained to JFo that it wasn't because she was a B-list celeb, but because he was concerned that she wouldn't be as much of an attention getter as Glover and the other stars. She then either left or was asked to leave. Bell somewhat undiplomatically stated that she could walk into the restaurant, walk outside, come back in and vomit on the bar and only until the last happened would anyone notice.

JFo could not be reached for comment.

-- BoreAmerica.com