Interview: Janeane Garofalo on 24, Henry Rollins, and Her Inevitable Run for Senator of Minnesota

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By Sam McPheeters

Thursday, Apr. 16 2009 @ 9:30AM

"When Rush Limbaugh visited the set, and when Lynne Cheney visited the set, I refused to have my picture taken with them or meet them or anything."

Cut to 2009, and Garofalo is now a cast member on Fox's long-running torturefest, 24 (Irony? Brilliant career segue? Indicator of job scarcity?). Garofalo also continues her standup routine, performing five shows on April 17-19, at Comix ("Don't let the name fool you. It's actually a good room."). Recently, I spoke with her by phone at 8AM; only at the end of the interview did we realize that we were both on the west coast and had both woken early just to be courteous . . .


interview: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/04/interview_janea.php

[ananda]

1. 24 is hard to watch this year.

I haven't been able to watch the last few
episodes.

I'm going to try to catch the last part,
though.

I usually love that show, but it got way
too dark this year...

[nonconformist]

3. I'm actually more into 24 than I have been for the past couple of seasons

It is dark, and since you're not watching and I don't want to spoil you if you decide to catch the last couple of episodes... it got even darker. But I'm enjoying the storyline.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. just posted a video

of sam seder and janeane (as katherine harris)in the video thread

[Gabi Hayes]

11. hahahAAAAAAAAA! here's another youtube w/'Harris'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0sWzO3Gjs0&feature=player_embedded

really pisses me off that they screwed Seder the way he did....he'd have been infinitely superior to fat Ed

[Gabi Hayes]

12. and here are 671 youtubes with Sam Seder in the title

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Sam+Seder&aq=f

.....or whatever

[Gabi Hayes]

13. Seder gets thrown out of the GOP convention......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k74IZ34Qyrg&feature=related

[Echo In Light]

4. "I said absolutely not." Good for her. I cringe when, say, Daily Show's crowd applauds a fascist...

...largely because, I'm guessing, they're by and large receiving mainstream "news" only, and hence don't understand the true actions and institutional intent of the guest, and Jon has to act as if he's actually not interviewing the exact type he most certainly is.

Yay for Janeane :)

[Aristus]

5. She is one of my many great unrequited crushes.

She's incredible. :loveya:

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

7. Same here

:blush: I :loveya: Janeane

[zeemike]

6. But that is how the RW seduces us all…with money.

And 24 was not made for the consumption of the RW but to convince the liberals that torture was sometimes necessary.
And what better way than to cast it with known liberals.
And if those liberal members of the cast were honest they would say “Shure I am a tool of Roger Ails and the RW but the money is good”

[Ohio Joe]

8. bwahahahaha, the comments are great

Dave says - "Funny how only right wingers can be nut jobs, but not left wingers."

Jerry Pournelle says - "Gee, that is funny. Why do you suppose right wingers are so fucked in the head?"

bwahahahahahahahahahaha, too funny :D

[omega minimo]

9. C'mon folks!! K/R Janeane!!!!!!

[omega minimo]

10. .

[Gabi Hayes]

14. padded room award. HA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LerSXMN4sQk

[Umbral]

15. After last season, you'd think the writers and producers of 24...

would be too embarrassed to do another. But they're Republicans so obviously shame isn't a possibility.

[Gabi Hayes]

16. she's on Olbermann right now

[omega minimo]

17. It's embarrassing that DU won't K/R Janeane to Greatest, itn't it?

:eyes: she's kind of a progressive godmother, itn't she?