Garofalo Complains: American Media Too Conservative, Walks Off Stage
by Big Hollywood
Via Newsbusters:
GAROFALO: The, mostly the media in the States is much more to the right. I mean there is almost no liberal outlet for news commentary or editorializing. …
GAROFALO: Well, I think people like us better now that Obama’s there. It’s a much better representative of the States I think, because George Bush certainly makes it seem like we’re the biggest jerks in the world. And it’s nice to have Obama. But there’s certainly no shortage of still political things to discuss and media things to discuss.
Newsbusters reports that just a few hours later Garofalo walked off stage after failing to win over a UK audience:
Janeane Garofalo cut short her Saturday afternoon set in Latitude’s comedy tent because of the poor reception she was given by the audience. The American comedienne’s rare UK live appearance was expected to be one of the highlights in a strong comic line-up, but she failed to win over the festival crowd.
Best known to TV viewers as talent booker Paula in The Larry Sanders Show and political campaigner Louise in the final series of The West Wing, Garofalo was due perform for half an hour, but left the stage after less than ten minutes when her routine about post-9/11 security checks at airports met with stony silence.
“It’s not you, I blame myself for this,” she said before leaving the stage.
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Garofalo – One of the many MANY reasons I stopped watching tv (except for Lou Dobbs, Fox News, Discovery and History channels).
People who cannot laugh at themselves cannot make others laugh.
Okay, does it take a special (I mean short-bus yellow specail) degree to be Jbeast blind and stupid:?
I was having such a nice morning…ugh.
Please, this chick needs to STFU, slither away and get some therapy.
Did Al Franken's Air America (Garofalo's only accomplishment) ever pay back the $1,000,000,000.00 they stole from Gloria Wise in the Bronx?
I know Air America stole the only all-black radio station in NYC and never returned that station to its rightful owners…but what about the money, honey?
Oh how I detest the pompous Progressive Plantation; those hideous slavemasters, all they can do is loot, steal, defile, violate good decent Americans .
The, mostly the media in the States is much more to the right.
Wait…what?
Has she watched anything other than Fox News?
This just proves to me the left can not enforce or spout their principals or lack of, without feeling the love. It is what they hated about Bush, he continued to do what he thought was right, damn the public perception. It is the reason we must not give up. Hold tight to your beliefs and truth will almost always win. And she could not get the love in a socialist country like England? There may be hope for our brothers and sister across the pond yet.
I admire Garofalo. It takes a special skill to shove your head up your ass while you have your foot in your mouth.
Garafolo is "red meat" to conservatives. She is one of the one's we love to hate, almost the way the "libs" hate Governor Palin. I think the question of interest really is: "does she actually believe what she says, or is she just saying it to tick conservatives off and make conservative cries of media bias seem more like just normal partisan whining rather than the fact supported claim it really is?"
Wow. Just wow.
I almost have to feel sorry for her. Relax folks I said almost. It appears that outside of her "Hollywood Sound Chamber" where everyone simply echos her ludicrous ideas she is nothing more than a small minded, out of touch, self righteous, C-List, has been comedienne/actress who appearently only really cares about being liked by others. That probably explains her conservative bashing comedy routine she tries to pass off as cutting edge humor. There you go Janeane if you don't have anything new and original to say just go back to the old standards of attacking Christians and Conservatives. It's working great for Bill Maher and all the late-night talkshow hosts.
It strikes me as odd too that if she really cared so much about being liked by others why does she go to such lengths to mutilate her own body and appearence. Ah but don't worry Janeane, you can always feel better by simply adding another tattoo that resembles some mindless doodling akin to that found on any 9th Graders Pee Chee. That will fill the hole that hurts so much inside you.
Every time this speed bump says something a puppy dies and a two-headed calf is born. Seriously.
Another non-funny comedian that Hollywood pukes out on a daily basis. Keep her in the spotlight to let the masses know what a true Ozombie thinks of the U.S.
My summary of Ms. Garofalo in front of the crowd: Angry rhetoric. Swear word. Bush bash. More angry rhetoric. Silence. Stunned amazement. Why aren't you people laughing? These are the jokes.
No. You are the joke, Janeane.
Her grasp of reality leaves so much to be desired and so much to be derided. However, like the broken clock, she has managed to get one thing right…..yes, her comment "I blame myself for this" is right. The next thing she can get right is to just leave the scene and not come back.
Maybe she would prefer the Cuban media.
That's what I would call pretzel logic, but she'd also have to weave her arms through her legs to stick her fingers in her ears as well, so that she wouldn't be able to hear the truth.
Seriously, this is the most significant person the site can rail about? Did we run out of Perez Hilton articles already? Although I suppose since VIctoria Jackson is the 'biggest' celeb to post here regularly, maybe the Garafalo fixation is just about right.
And still more from America's favorite Adderall addict. I thought she was getting clean in Clearwater.
Break a leg, janneen. No really, break a leg!
crazy cat ladies are actually FUNNY!
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I feel sorry for J Garofalo. What can I say? Her humor, prior to 9/11 was excellent. She lost her edge and her soul. At least when faced with stony silence, she admits that she has lost her affinity with her audience. Maybe she can comeback. Who knows? Odd things are happening outside the beltway and outside of controlled audiences.
In most ways, the actors and actresses of Hollywood need us more than we need them.
Sure, once in a while, they can influence us, but in order for Hollywood to be successful long-term, it MUST reflect it's audience. Not the other way around.
I have to agree to give this lady a rest. She contributes nothing and no one is listening to her. Her appearances on various tv and radio programs are her career on life support. I must admit that her screeds remind me of a politicized Andy Kaufman routine.
Who's this garofalo person and why is her image not with a warning?
A child might be walking by my monitor at the wrong time! Gheesh!
;~)'
Looks like someone realizes they're nothing more than a D-lister and needs some attention now…her role in Ratatouille was perfect. Didn't have to see her face at all.
Where the He!! is she living ?
/spit
I don't hate her Jed, really. I'm just tired of her. I'm embarrassed for her. I worked with her years ago on a movie and she was both pleasant and professional. Something has happened to her over the years. I've read articles where she has discussed her Dad. Clearly, she seems to have a lot of issues with the man. My ten cents psychology tells me much of her anger stems around stuff with her father. She's not a happy person and she acts out accordingly. I wish she would STFU and get some therapy. Give it a rest.
This is so not the same situation as with liberals who hate Palin.
I know, I know, I probably have pissed off most, if not all, here, but it takes a special person to step onto that stage and perform.
Jimmy – of course I use the term "hate" in it's broadest sense (much like one's feelings about their archrival football team in high school,) but find your comment nothing less than fascinating; I appreciate your sharing it.
So, if I read this right, she quit before the term she agreed to was up?
Nice point!
Garofalo said the media leans mostly to the right? Well, I'll be darned. She finally said something funny.
It's okay, Jeneane, I blame you too.
Well from her vantage point the wombat may not be too far off the mark.
Cool.
Jeaneane's screed is nothing new, as everyone has heard it before, and has rejected it. She seems to think that because Barry Soetoro won a crooked election, that somehow that crime somehow validates the Nonsense that Left Wing Lunatics spews forth upon the real, decent & honest people of the USA . But when that demographic continues to reject her Pus & Venom, her ilk thinks that they can capture the hearts & minds of Weaker nations, that they think are just clueless regarding Politics, and will always follow those with fame & celebrity over those who actually do something constructive for their constituents.
Reject these Retards whenever they crawl out of their crackhouses, and spew their vomitous at us, as once they see that the Whole World is Not a Stupid Nightclub full of drunk hippies, the sooner they will leave us all alone. Most of all, Do Not Support these Weirdos, and let their Advertisers know that You Reject them!!! And that You Will Not be buying their Products as long as they Support those who Hate You & Your Country!!!
Don't allow these Haters to Win, Not a single time!!!
"……..it MUST reflect it's audience. Not the other way around." ………….
which would be a factor in the popularity of Hollywood of the 50's and 60's when a large number of the stars either were vets, or had contributed in various ways–Hollywood Canteen, War Bond drives, morale-building or otherwise called propaganda films–to the 'war effort'.
Problem is, Hollywood today, like the Beltway, has come to think THEY are the mainstream………….old military saying 'everyone else is out of step'.
I agree. It will take a while, but history is on our side.
I mean there is almost no liberal outlet for news commentary or editorializing. …
Okay, we have now confirmed she does not know how to turn on a TV nor can she read magazines and newspapers, and forget asking her about that internet thingy. She is well on track to potential starvation from being unable to use a microwave, but this shall be blamed on mean conservative customer support reps who refused to help her when she asked about replacing the lost remote.
With all due respect and as someone who has been out there on the stage, it ain't that tough. It's not like being a cop or a firefighter or being a soldier, serving your country in the heat of battle.
Sorry, just my take.
She sounds quite foolish here, but not really that much MORE foolish than people who believe in a liberal media conspiracy – a supposition that's generally taken as evident fact around here.
The ONLY thing that all of the different sects of people out there who need to cling to a group-identity (race, religion, "I'm a CONSERVATIVE!!!," "I'm a LIBERAL!!!" etc) all agree on is that "the media" is out to get them. Liberals think the "corporate" media is oppressing them, Conservatives think the "liberal" entertainment media is working for Obama, Christians think the media is trying to "secularize" the nation, atheists think the media shills for spiritualism, etc. For every military man (or woman) who concludes that the media is being dishonestly-negative about Iraq there's an antiwar activist who thinks the media is basically an adjacent arm of the Pentagon.
beep
You make my point better than I could make it. It takes someone willing to give up to the Gods that BE.
In their case it is life. In her case, it is life.
Nothing more sad than one who had it, and lost it due to selfish reasons.
She lost it due to selfish reasons.
A Janeane Garofalo thread…swell.
I think I still have some battery acid left over in my garage that needs to be swilled down.
Be back in a second. (If I'm able).
Not Over.
What a baby.
What a crybaby.
And Versus during the Tour de France!! I like my bike races, people.
So. . .any proof of her assertions? Yeah, didn't think so.
*MissQuinn*
A Janeane, (waste of human skin), Garofalo thread…swell.
I think I still have some vintage battery acid left over in my garage, from the last time she shot her mouth off, that needs to be swilled down before I can continue.
Be back in a sec. (If I'm able).
Not Over.
Why do you think they're having such a hard time getting anyone to watch most anything? People like to see things they identify with and most people don't identify with a lot of the scripted shows that get put out for us to see.
I don't know which is worse, her appearance due to self-mutilation or her insane rants. It's a toss-up.
It's called "Variety" Conde Nasty. Jar-O-foulness started the fight and continues to attempt to vilify Americans in foreign lands. I think that justifies continuing to lampoon her and her ilk. If you don't like it, go back to HufPo or DU…
Can't you just picture Janeane post-show?:
"If you don't find my stuff funny you must be either a woman or a black man with Stockholm Syndrome. Also, all those people who didn't laugh were Tea Party racist Brits who hate a black man, anyway."
Janeane is proof that you must have a lobotomy to be that far-left.
just what has she been watching?
With all due respect, I don't think so. Paul Rodriguez went with the flow until he found out that it HURTS him and his loved ones. She just got a taste of people who aren't impressed with her.
Two to one, she figures it out and does a marvelous comeback.
I agree, but I think she has the opportunity now to re-evaluate her life.
Boy, it must be rough when the only sympathetic media you have is ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, etc. Not to mention having the Hollywood establishment behind you…
It’s called diversity MBob, just what all the lefty’s have been screaming about for the last 40+ years.
Well, now they have it, and they’re <bstillb> not satisfied.
Ain’t America Grand? (For now.)
Not Over.
It’s Diversity MBob just what all the lefty’s have been screaming about for the last 40+ years.
Well, now they have it, and they’re still not satisfied.
Ain’t America Grand? (For now.)
Not Over.
It’s Diversity MBob just what all the lefty’s have been screaming they need for the last 40+ years.
Well, now they have it, and they’re still not satisfied.
Ain’t America Grand? (For now.)
Not Over.
One BIG difference between conservatives and liberals–conservatives can and will acknowledge when/if the MSM gets something right. Liberals are totally lacking in that capacity. I can only surmise that their whole philosophy is so interwoven that the entire thing collapses if they admit to being wrong on even one point.
Conservatives maintain a sense of humor as well.
But she doesn't think she's a radical, though. I mean, whenever she opens her mouth about politics she just says something so off-the-wall stupid, you almost pray that she's being satirical.
She may have to turn it around, that is true. However, until she does so, her career as a comedian will suffer because people want to see comedy, not some kook on a soapbox spewing politics. She'll always be welcome on the cable news circuit because she's just that outlandish, but her performing career could suffer.
"…to re-evaluate her life."
From my life's experience, sadly, folks like her enviably come to a short and very bad end in their lives.
Not Over.
That little ditty made me have a good chuckle. Heh.
A 1+.
Not Over.
You know I agree. I was having coffee and reading the blogs and this picture came up. I like good discourse, not name calling but for this B I will make an exception. When she called tea partiers flat out racist I wanted to go a few rounds with her. But just like that loathing Hilton thing, someone will eventually make her realize that free speech has consequences.
Does she ever bath? Come on, Woodstock is so 60's.
I really like your screen avatar yo_conde.
It says something telling about your winning personality.
Not Over.
From my experience, it happens that people do see the light. I take it from your picture you are or have been in the military.
If so, haven't you seen in your military life, changes so profound that you would have said this person can't be the same from what I saw 8 weeks ago?
Didn't say I was a fan…I just don't think she's relevant to either side to get cited as much as she is.
Now that's priceless, Steve!! ROFL!
Thanks! Re: _your_ avatar profile–are you a second _administration_ or _amendment_ lover? You might want to chck yr abbrv.
Squeaky wheel/Train wreck is the principle at work here.
*MissQuinn*
Well, she's no Sandra Bernhard.
You are right. She isn't that ugly.
When you are a communist, even the socialists at the network news shows are right-wing. So from her intellectually bankrupt perspective, the news is right-wing.
Plus, who in their right mind would have thought she would be the highlight for any comedy show? Those people are morons for even thinking that. Next thing you know, people will ask Bill Maher to do a routine and then wonder why he's not funny.
At one time, she was really good. Now, she has been brought down by herself. And she acknowledged that.
Go Lance!! He kinda conceded today…I think he's playing mind games. I lived in Austin for many years, used to see him training in the Hill Country. I met him I worked at Covert Ford in Austin, I talked to him for a few minutes, he's a very nice, regular guy…for a legend.
The melt-down appears to be complete….
Yep, except for ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, and USA Today, there's NOBODY getting the liberal point of view out! Poor Janeane. It must be terrible to be so underrepresented. Unlike us. Gollies, we have both Fox News and the Washington Times!
"…failed to win over a U.K. audience"…? WOW! Real progress in the U.K.? Is this an early trend indicator that the "Peoples of Great Britian" is moving back toward sanity? Maybe? Please?
I hear you Rain however, you may wish to scroll down a bit on the page where I further elaborate on the JG issue with Tennessee Jed.
Which for all of Kaufman's manic energy sometimes veered off into an uncomfortable silence…
The woman needs to get some help. I wrote about it earlier with Tennessee Jed. Enough already.
Just another leftist, circus skank
Thanks, I'll fix that.
Too true…it's an everyday, every issue struggle. For instance, I chafe when I see Senators like Grahm of S.C. fold under self imposed pressure to support an obviously radical jurist like Sotomayor so they can "go along, to get along". You either have principals or you don't. Another example, I believe what SUNK John Kerry wasn't the "Swiftboaters" as much as "I voted for the war, before I voted against it". He proved he had no backbone, no principals. The current W.H. stealth guy, he's bulit his career on a foundation of radical leftist politics. He just lied about it.
Allow my to indulge for a moment. I'm as guilty as the next person, having spent some choice moments on this latest JG thread. What continues to blow my mind and as I mentioned, I'm as guilty, is this woman has over 75 comments as of now, while a beautiful piece written by Michael Mandaville yesterday @ Big Hollywood has 18.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmandaville/200...
We need to begin shifting our priorities around a bit more in life. Some things just aren't as important as others.
My two cents.
Allow me…
On to the more pressing question that recent Garofalo news brings to attention:
Am I the only one who finds her kind of hot?
Lighten up. Look at it the way it is. She just got B&*^*-slapped so publicly that not only she was humiliated, but her entire religion of liberalism.
Smile! ^_^
Several explanations for this.
1 – she knows no news outlet means anything except the opposition media (for the rebellion!)
2 – unless absolutely everybody says the exact same thing in the exact same way and there is NO opposing voices, she focuses on the thorn in her side rather the pillow under her head
3 – read the story of Esther in the Bible. One Jewish man wouldn't bow to a rich nut case of his day, and that brought about the desire to wipe out the Jewish people. You have ONE voice refusing to bow down to liberalism and Garofalo's crap, and her mind snaps.
When JG isn't being subsidized by a network T.V. show of which success has nothing to do with her bit characters, and she is forced to display her own artwork, she is rejected thoroughly! Why? Because she is as dreadful as she appears!
She is delusional and not funny. She must have been potty trained with a shotgun. She really has some issues.
Ahh…the beauty of the double g & t…on that we can certainly agree!
I said I wasn't a fan, but I certainly don't need celebrities of any stripe to make up my mind for me. But if I _did_ I'd pick relevant ones, not has-beens who never rose above b-level to begin with. (applies fairly both to Jackson & Garafalo I believe)
Well, tattoo needles aren't held up to the same level of cleanliness as needles in hospitals. Maybe she got something from the person who got tattooed before her which is now causing her brain to disintegrate? I mean, assuming she had one to begin with.
The BEST thing about her is that she's never reproduced…… or can she?
I just think that Garofalo is 45 going on 25. She reminds me of a know-it-all recent college grad. With the attitude and tatoos, it looks like she walked into a collegetown coffeehouse circa 1993, never came back.
I like "The Matchmaker."
A billion? You sure about that?
"The, mostly the media in the States is much more to the right. I mean there is almost no liberal outlet for news commentary or editorializing."
Politics is relative. To a Marxist, a socialist is a fundy rethug.
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