Janeane Garofalo to appear at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee

Actress & Comedian Janeane Garofalo has been an American institution since she burst on the scene 1992.

In addition to acting in film and television, Janeane is an outspoken activist, spoken word performer and stand-up comedy entertainer known & respected around the country, and the world.  As well, she was instrumental in the successful launching of the first liberal radio network, Air America Radio, where she hosted her own talk show, The Majority Report. A lightning rod for controversy, Janeane’s well informed opinions and unflinching honesty have inspired laughs, as well as striking a chord with the left, right and everyone in between.  She is a noted peace activist.

Janeane has had many memorable and critically acclaimed roles in films such as “The Truth About Cats and Dogs”, “Steal This Movie”, “Copland,” “Reality Bites,” and “Duane Hopwood,” as well as for her specific brand of sharp wit and comedy shown in her roles in “Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion” “Bye Bye Love” “Mystery Men”, “Clay Pigeons”, “The Minus Man” and “The Cable Guy”, directed by her friend Ben Stiller.  Ben and Janeane also co-authored the best seller “Feel This Book,” (Ballantine May 1999). Janeane was also a cast member of the Emmy Award-winning Ben Stiller Show.

Janeane played the role of Paula, the acerbic talent booker, on “The Larry Sanders Show,” for which she received an Emmy nomination in 1997 and two Cable Ace nominations. During the fall of '94 she joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live.” Some of Janeane's other television work includes two specials for HBO, the series finale of “Mad About You,” and the critically lauded, final season of NBC’s “The West Wing,” where she played Democratic campaign strategist Louise Thornton.

In 2007, Janeane’s voice was featured in the Disney/Pixar animated comedy Ratatouille, and can be seen in Stella writer/director David Wain’s ensemble comedy, “The Ten”. Janeane can also be seen in her latest project, the Lifetime movie “Girl’s Best Friend”.

Janeane lives in New York and Los Angeles.

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Visit JGTV for video clips of Janeane Garofalo performing stand-up comedy.

Which of these women has been dethroned? From left, Janeane Garofalo, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler  (MSN Photo)

I'm so last century, part deux 

Who wants yesterday's papers, who wants yesterday's girl?

-- The Rolling Stones 

Vanity Fair's April, 2008 cover story by Allesandra Stanley on "The Queens of Comedy -- Who Says Women Aren't Funny?" doesn't mention Janeane Garofalo at all, except inferentially and in passing:

Suddenly, S.N.L. sketches were written by women, for women; the biggest stars were Poehler and Maya Rudolph; and the oh-God-I-hate-myself-so-much routines seemed passé.

View a clip from Seinfeld when Janeane Garofalo used to be funny (pre-9/11)

The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care) - N.Y. Times

What you may not have realized is that perceiving sarcasm, the smirking put-down that buries its barb by stating the opposite, requires a nifty mental trick that lies at the heart of social relations: figuring out what others are thinking. Those who lose the ability, whether through a head injury or the frontotemporal dementias afflicting the patients in Dr. Rankin’s study, just do not get it when someone says during a hurricane, “Nice weather we’re having.”

“A lot of the social cognition we take for granted and learn through childhood, the ability to appreciate that someone else is being ironic or sarcastic or angry — the so-called theory of mind that allows us to get inside someone else’s head — is characteristically lost very early in the course of frontotemporal dementia,” said Dr. Bradley F. Boeve, a behavioral neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Katherine P. Rankin, a Neuropsychologist, Studies Sarcasm - NYTimes.com

Todd Barry, From Heaven 

It takes a great comedian to make Mick Jagger reading his e-mail into a joke. Luckily, Todd Barry is up for the job. Barry's deadpan delivery (and attempted English accent) are hilariously funny throughout the e-mail bit and the rest of From Heaven. The album is Barry's third on Comedy Central Records and it finds him holding forth on a range of topics that include the ridiculousness of rating a hotel based on the sweet smell of their soap, the reason that Chipotle is delicious and the schadenfreude associated with learning that even Bruce Springsteen has terrible friends.

-- Rex Carswell, eMusic

Listen to "Old Navy, Short Shop," a track from Todd Barry"s "From Heaven" on  Comedy Central Records

Buy "From Heaven" at eMusic

Largo at the Coronet Announces Summer Lineup - LAist

[LAist is a web site about Los Angeles] 

If you haven't caught a show at Largo at the Coronet yet, now might be a good time. Their recently posted, insanely good schedule for the next three months includes performers such as Randy Newman, Loudon Wainwright III, Joan as Police Woman, Maya Rudolph & Fred Armisen, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Janeane Garofalo, Jon Brion, The Ditty Bops, Colin Hay, The Watkins Family Hour feat. Fiona Apple & Dan Wilson, Greg Proops and Flight of the Conchords.

The Randy Newman show is already sold out, as is the July 26 Greg Proops & Flight of the Conchords date. However, when it comes to the Conchords, one would imagine there's probably a good chance they'll show up for Largo's "1st National International New Zealand Day" on Aug. 2.

Video clip from the Largo film, which recently debuted at the LA Film Festival.

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Lewis Black, Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo and The Kids in the Hall Kick Off New Season of XM's Original Comedy Series 'Unmasked'

New Episodes of Exclusive XM Comedy Series Premiered May 3

WASHINGTON, April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stand-up comedy greats Lewis Black, Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo and famed comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall will be among those featured on XM Radio's original comedy series "Unmasked" when the series kicks off a new season on May 3, it was announced today.

Recorded before a live studio audience, "Unmasked" offers up candid, one-on-one interviews with both established and emerging comedic talent for an uncensored look into their creative process and the lives that shape their comedy.

Listeners to the new season of "Unmasked" will hear some of their favorite comedians recount lighthearted and sober stories alike, from Lewis Black sharing stories of his early, broke years working in the theatre, and the night he spent in jail, to Janeane Garofalo's thoughts about her stint on "Saturday Night Live" and who is her least favorite comedian. Broadcast dates are as follows:

Lewis Black, Saturday, May 3

Margaret Cho, Saturday, May 17

The Kids in the Hall,Saturday, May 31

Janeane Garofalo Saturday, June 14

The season premieres on Saturday, May 3 at 8 p.m. ET on XM's uncensored comedy channel "XM Comedy" (XM 150). Additional programming information and encore schedules are available online at
http://www.xmradio.com/unmasked.

XM's programming lineup features five dedicated comedy channels that offer a range of round-the-clock comic programming-uncensored comedy on "XM Comedy" (XM 150), family comedy on "Laugh USA" (XM 151), Canadian comedy on "Laugh Attack" (XM 153), short-form sketch comedy, standup and satire on "National Lampoon(TM) Comedy Radio" (XM 154) and irreverent comedy and talk from Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez on High Voltage (XM 202).

XM also offers other original comedy programming, including "Stand Up Sit Down," which features long-form interviews and stand-up routines from a who's who of comedians, including Lewis Black, George Carlin, John Cleese, Dane Cook, Bill Cosby, Jim Gaffigan, Gilbert Gottfried, Mitch Hedberg, Robert Klein, Larry the Cable Guy, Richard Lewis, Kathleen Madigan, Paul Mooney, Ron White and many others.

More information about XM's comedy programming is available online at http://www.xmradio.com.

About XM

XM is America's number one satellite radio company with more than 9 million subscribers. Broadcasting live daily from studios in Washington, DC, New York City, Chicago, Nashville, Toronto and Montreal, XM's 2008 lineup includes more than 170 digital channels of choice from coast to coast: commercial-free music, premier sports, news, talk radio, comedy, children's and entertainment programming; and the most advanced traffic and weather information.

XM, the leader in satellite-delivered entertainment and data services for the automobile market through partnerships with General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, Porsche, Ferrari, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota is available in 140 different vehicle models for 2008. XM's industry-leading products are available at consumer electronics retailers nationwide. XM programming is also available through XM Radio Online, the exclusive home on the Internet for XM's commercial-free music channels; as downloads of original XM shows via podcasts from XM's Web site or the Apple's iTunes Store; and as streams of commercial- free XM music channels to AT&T and Alltel wireless customers through XM Radio Mobile. For more information about XM hardware, programming and partnerships, please visit http://www.xmradio.com/.

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