Janeane Garofalo is an American comedian, actress, and former co-host on Air America Radio's The Majority Report.
Garofalo began her career as a stand-up comedian and became a cast member on The Ben Stiller Show, The Larry Sanders Show, and Saturday Night Live, then appeared in more than 50 movies, with leading or major roles in The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Wet Hot American Summer, The Matchmaker, Reality Bites, The Wild, Steal This Movie!, Clay Pigeons, Sweethearts, Mystery Men, The Minus Man, and The Independent. She has been a series regular on television programs such as Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, 24, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, and Ideal.
Garofalo struggled with alcoholism, stating in a 2021 interview that she gave up drinking in 2001.
Garofalo continues to circulate regularly within New York City's local comedy and performance art scene.
Garofalo married Robert Cohen, then a writer for The Ben Stiller Show, in Las Vegas in 1991. She later explained it was intended as a joke, the pair thinking that the marriage was not binding unless it was filed at a local courthouse. It was discovered later, when Cohen tried to marry someone else, that the marriage was indeed legal. The union was dissolved in 2012.
Garofalo self-identifies as asexual. She is of Italian descent.
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Not a looker, but dibs for being talented, never selling out, and exposing behind the scenes corruption and nepotism in Hollywood and the comedy scene.
