Janeane, the petite woman with the acerbic wit, was born in Newton, New Jersey, in 1964, to Joan, a secretary, and Carmine Garofalo, an Exxon executive. She is of Italian and Irish descent. Janeane had many jobs before breaking into show biz. She worked as a bike messenger, a shoe salesperson, waitress and temp secretary. Watching David Letterman ...
Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 3 wins & 11 nominations.
Movie | Blue Angel | Magda Moynahan | 2017 |
Movie | Werewolf Bitches from Outer Space | Unknown | 2017 |
Movie | The Happys | Unknown | 2016 |
Movie | Little Boxes | Unknown | 2016 |
Movie | Sticky: A (Self) Love Story | Unknown | 2016 |
Movie | Stark Raving Normal | Unknown | 2016 |
Movie | 3rd Street Blackout | June Sherman | 2016-04-29 |
Movie | Speech & Debate | Unknown | 2016 |
Series | The Green Room with Paul Provenza | Unknown | 2016-02-12 |
Series | Paul the Male Matchmaker | Unknown | 2016-03-01 |
Movie | The Quest for the Titan | Herself / Stith | 2016-02-12 |
Movie | Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Herself | 2016-02-10 |
Series | International Ghost Investigators | Unknown | 2015 |
Series | Inside Amy Schumer | Unknown | 2015 |
Movie | Adventures in Comedy | Unknown | 2015 |
Movie | Misery Loves Comedy | Herself | 2015-04-14 |
Series | The Jim Gaffigan Show | Unknown | 2015-07-15 |
Movie | Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot | Herself | 2015-07-24 |
Series | Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp | Unknown | 2015-07-31 |
Series | Park Bench with Steve Buscemi | Unknown | 2014 |
Series | Best Bars in America | Unknown | 2014 |
Series | Broad City | Unknown | 2014 |
Series | Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce | Unknown | 2014 |
Movie | Free the Nipple | Unknown | 2014 |
Movie | Like Me | Herself | 2014 |
Movie | Lovesick Fool - Love in the Age of Like | Unknown | 2014 |
Movie | A Little Game | Unknown | 2014 |
Series | American Viral | Unknown | 2014 |
Movie | The American Side | Unknown | 2014 |
Movie | Showing Up | Herself | 2014-02-25 |
Movie | The Assistant | Unknown | 2013 |
Movie | Satan, Hold My Hand | Unknown | 2013 |
Movie | Paulie | Unknown | 2013 |
Series | F to 7th | Unknown | 2013 |
Movie | The Muslims Are Coming! | Unknown | 2013 |
Movie | Why We Laugh: Funny Women | Unknown | 2013 |
Series | Gotham Comedy Live | Unknown | 2013 |
Series | Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell | Unknown | 2013 |
Movie | Departure Date | Unknown | 2012 |
Movie | Mighty Fine | Unknown | 2012 |
Series | Match Game | Unknown | 2012 |
Movie | Vanilla Ice Archive | Unknown | 2012-07-16 |
Movie | General Education | Unknown | 2012 |
Movie | Bad Parents | Unknown | 2012 |
Movie | Occupy Unmasked | Unknown | 2012 |
Movie | Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior - Alternate Reality: The New Criminal Minds | Unknown | 2011 |
Movie | (A)sexual | Unknown | 2011 |
Movie | Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior - House of Corpses | Unknown | 2011 |
Movie | Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior - Loved Ones | Unknown | 2011 |
Movie | Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior - Inside the Red Cell | Unknown | 2011 |
Movie | Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior - The Profiler | Unknown | 2011 |
Series | Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior | Unknown | 2011 |
Movie | Barbershop Punk | Unknown | 2010 |
Series | New York Stand-Up Show | Unknown | 2010-01-08 |
Movie | I Am Comic | Unknown | 2010-01-28 |
Series | The Horrible Terrible Misadventures of David Atkins | Unknown | 2010 |
Movie | Janeane Garofalo: If You Will - Live in Seattle | Unknown | 2010 |
Series | Ugly Americans | Unknown | 2010 |
Series | The Hour | Unknown | 2010 |
Movie | Gimme Shelter | Unknown | 2010 |
Movie | Idiots | Unknown | 2010 |
Series | The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret | Unknown | 2010 |
Movie | Labor Pains | Unknown | 2009 |
Series | Vicariously | Unknown | 2009 |
Series | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Unknown | 2009-03-02 |
Movie | Love Hurts | Unknown | 2009 |
Series | Delocated | Unknown | 2009-02-01 |
Movie | W.T.F. (W., Thanks and Farewell): A Look Back at the Bush Years | Unknown | 2009 |
Movie | 24 in 24 | Unknown | 2009 |
Series | Head Case | Unknown | 2008 |
Movie | The Guitar | Unknown | 2008 |
Movie | A Bad Situationist | Unknown | 2008 |
Movie | Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness | Unknown | 2008 |
Series | Séries express | Unknown | 2008-04-17 |
Movie | Girl's Best Friend | Mary | 2008-02-02 |
Series | 60/90 | Unknown | 2008-05-08 |
Movie | The Ten | Unknown | 2008-08-21 |
Series | The Comedy Can Television Series | Unknown | 2007 |
Movie | Then She Found Me | Unknown | 2007 |
Movie | Manufacturing Dissent | Unknown | 2007-10-19 |
Series | Greek | Unknown | 2007-07-09 |
Movie | Law Dogs | Unknown | 2007 |
Movie | Ratatouille | Colette | 2007-06-29 |
Movie | The Making of 'The Larry Sanders Show' | Unknown | 2007 |
Series | Wainy Days | Unknown | 2007-07-30 |
Movie | Southland Tales | General Teena MacArthur | 2007-12-07 |
Movie | Ratatouille | Unknown | 2007 |
Series | Urban Rush | Unknown | 2007 |
Series | Aqua Teen Hunger Force | Unknown | 2006 |
Series | Spicks and Specks | Unknown | 2006 |
Movie | THS Investigates: Starving for Perfection | Herself | 2006 |
Movie | Al Franken: God Spoke | Unknown | 2006-04-30 |
Series | Freak Show | The Bearded Clam | 2006-10-04 |
Series | Campus Ladies | Unknown | 2006 |
Series | The Henry Rollins Show | Unknown | 2006-04-01 |
Series | Reel Comedy | Unknown | 2006 |
Movie | The Wild | Bridget | 2006-04-14 |
Series | Metalocalypse | Unknown | 2006-08-06 |
Movie | A Comic's Climb at the USCAF | Unknown | 2005 |
Movie | Duane Hopwood | Unknown | 2005 |
Movie | The Entertainment Weekly Guide: Guilty Pleasures | Unknown | 2005 |
Movie | Deal | Unknown | 2005 |
Series | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Unknown | 2005-01-03 |
Series | Ideal | Unknown | 2005-09-15 |
Movie | Stay | Unknown | 2005 |
Movie | Fuck | Unknown | 2005 |
Movie | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Dee Dee | 2005-05-06 |
Series | Stella | Unknown | 2005 |
Movie | Nadine in Date Land | Unknown | 2005 |
Movie | Junebug and Hurricane | Unknown | 2004 |
Series | Pilot Season | Unknown | 2004 |
Movie | Cop Land: The Making of an Urban Western | Unknown | 2004 |
Series | Hannity & Colmes | Unknown | 2004 |
Series | Tanner on Tanner | Herself | 2004-10-05 |
Series | Tom Goes to the Mayor | Unknown | 2004-11-14 |
Movie | Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy | Unknown | 2004-09-28 |
Series | Shorties Watchin' Shorties | Herself | 2004-04-28 |
Series | Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time | Unknown | 2004-04-12 |
Series | Staffers | Unknown | 2004 |
Series | Disclosure | Unknown | 2004 |
Movie | Outlaw Comic: The Censoring of Bill Hicks | Host | 2003-06-15 |
Series | The Belzer Connection | Unknown | 2003-09-09 |
Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
Series | Real Time with Bill Maher | Unknown | 2003-02-21 |
Movie | Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World | Narrator | 2003-06-07 |
Series | Heroes of Comedy: Women on Top | Unknown | 2003-03-01 |
Movie | Manhood | Unknown | 2003 |
Movie | Ash Tuesday | Unknown | 2003 |
Movie | Wonderland | Unknown | 2003-10-24 |
Series | Two and a Half Men | Unknown | 2003-09-22 |
Movie | Behind the Microphone: Kiki's Delivery Service | Unknown | 2003 |
Movie | When Stand Up Stood Out | Unknown | 2003 |
Movie | Nobody Knows Anything! | Unknown | 2003 |
Movie | Brilliant But Cancelled | Unknown | 2002 |
Movie | TV's Most Censored Moments | Unknown | 2002 |
Movie | Just for Laughs | Unknown | 2002 |
Movie | Martin & Orloff | Unknown | 2002 |
Movie | Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) | Unknown | 2002 |
Movie | The Laramie Project | Unknown | 2002 |
Series | Now | Unknown | 2002-02-01 |
Series | Intimate Portrait | Unknown | 2002 |
Series | Comic Remix | Unknown | 2002 |
Movie | Wet Hot American Summer | Beth | 2002-04-11 |
Movie | Big Trouble | Unknown | 2002 |
Movie | Steal This Movie | Anita Hoffman | 2002-06-28 |
Movie | The Best of Colin's Sleazy Friends | Unknown | 2001 |
Series | Primetime Glick | Unknown | 2001-06-20 |
Series | 24 | Unknown | 2001-11-06 |
Movie | The Search for John Gissing | Unknown | 2001 |
Series | Dinner for Five | Unknown | 2001-07-07 |
Movie | Ben Stiller Uncensored | Unknown | 2001 |
Movie | Housekeeping | Unknown | 2001 |
Series | Strangers with Candy | Unknown | 2000 |
Movie | The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle | Unknown | 2000 |
Movie | Behind the Scenes at 'Daria' | Unknown | 2000 |
Movie | The Independent | Unknown | 2000 |
Movie | Spotlight on Location: Mystery Men | Unknown | 2000 |
Movie | Let Me In, I Hear Laughter | Herself | 2000-02-10 |
Series | Rove Live | Unknown | 2000-10-09 |
Series | Ed | Unknown | 2000-10-08 |
Movie | Jim Carrey Uncensored | Unknown | 2000 |
Movie | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies | Unknown | 2000 |
Movie | What Planet Are You From? | Unknown | 2000 |
Movie | Titan A.E. | Unknown | 2000 |
Movie | The Cherry Picker | Unknown | 2000 |
Movie | MTV Video Music Awards 1999 | Unknown | 1999 |
Movie | 25 Lame | Unknown | 1999 |
Movie | MTV Uncensored | Unknown | 1999 |
Movie | Torrance Rises | Unknown | 1999 |
Movie | Thick as Thieves | Unknown | 1999 |
Movie | 200 Cigarettes | Unknown | 1999 |
Movie | The Bumblebee Flies Anyway | Unknown | 1999 |
Movie | Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust | Unknown | 1999 |
Movie | The Minus Man | Unknown | 1999 |
Movie | 1999 MTV Movie Awards | Unknown | 1999 |
Series | Loose Women | Unknown | 1999-09-06 |
Movie | Mystery Men | The Bowler | 1999-08-06 |
Series | The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn | Unknown | 1999-03-31 |
Series | The Sopranos | Unknown | 1999-01-10 |
Series | The Martin Short Show | Unknown | 1999-09-13 |
Series | The West Wing | Unknown | 1999-09-22 |
Movie | Comics Come Home 5 | Herself | 1999-12-19 |
Movie | Can't Stop Dancing | Unknown | 1999 |
Movie | Dogma | Liz | 1999-11-12 |
Movie | Guide to Music and South by Southwest | Unknown | 1998 |
Series | Bravo Profiles: The Entertainment Business | Unknown | 1998-10-04 |
Series | Sin City Spectacular | Unknown | 1998 |
Series | The King of Queens | Unknown | 1998-09-21 |
Series | Celebrity Deathmatch | Unknown | 1998-01-25 |
Movie | Half Baked | Unknown | 1998-01-16 |
Series | The Roseanne Show | Unknown | 1998-09-14 |
Movie | Permanent Midnight | Unknown | 1998 |
Movie | Clay Pigeons | Agent Dale Shelby | 1998-09-25 |
Movie | The Ms. Foundation's Women of Comedy | Unknown | 1998 |
Series | Felicity | Unknown | 1998-09-29 |
Movie | The Thin Pink Line | Unknown | 1998-10-07 |
Movie | Dog Park | Unknown | 1998 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Mike Myers | Unknown | 1998 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley | Unknown | 1998 |
Movie | Cop Land | Deputy Cindy Betts | 1997-08-15 |
Movie | Janeane Garofalo | Herself | 1997-08-23 |
Movie | TV Nation: Volume Two | Unknown | 1997 |
Movie | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion | Unknown | 1997-04-25 |
Movie | MTV Video Music Awards 1997 | Unknown | 1997-03-05 |
Movie | Denis Leary: Lock 'N Load | Unknown | 1997 |
Series | Fox After Breakfast | Unknown | 1997 |
Series | King of the Hill | Unknown | 1997-01-12 |
Series | The Chris Rock Show | Unknown | 1997-02-07 |
Movie | Touch | Unknown | 1997-02-14 |
Series | The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | Unknown | 1997 |
Movie | The MatchMaker | Unknown | 1997-10-03 |
Series | Viva Variety | Unknown | 1997 |
Movie | Sweethearts | Unknown | 1997 |
Movie | Comics Come Home 3 | Unknown | 1997 |
Series | The Anti Gravity Room | Unknown | 1997 |
Movie | The Cable Guy | Medieval Times Waitress | 1996-06-14 |
Series | The Daily Show | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
Series | The O'Reilly Factor | Unknown | 1996-10-07 |
Series | The Rosie O'Donnell Show | Unknown | 1996-06-10 |
Movie | The Truth About Cats & Dogs | Abby | 1996-04-26 |
Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-03-06 |
Movie | Mr. Show with Bob and David: Fantastic Newness | Various Characters | 1996-03-06 |
Movie | Larger Than Life | Unknown | 1996-11-01 |
Series | Never Mind the Buzzcocks | Unknown | 1996-11-12 |
Movie | MTV Video Music Awards 1996 | Unknown | 1996 |
Series | Saturday Night Special | Unknown | 1996-04-13 |
Series | Not Necessarily the Election | Unknown | 1996 |
Movie | Kicking Aspen: Extreme Comedy | Unknown | 1996 |
Movie | Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy | Unknown | 1996 |
Movie | 1996 MTV Movie Awards | Herself - Co-Host | 1996 |
Series | The L.A. Thing with John Doe | Unknown | 1995 |
Movie | The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special | Unknown | 1995 |
Movie | The 17th Annual CableACE Awards | Herself | 1995-12-06 |
Series | Mr. Show with Bob and David | Unknown | 1995-11-03 |
Series | Comedy Product | Unknown | 1995 |
Movie | I Shot a Man in Vegas | Unknown | 1995 |
Series | Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist | Unknown | 1995 |
Movie | Now and Then | Unknown | 1995 |
Movie | Bye Bye Love | Lucille | 1995-03-17 |
Movie | Coldblooded | Unknown | 1995 |
Series | NewsRadio | Unknown | 1995-03-21 |
Series | Small Doses | Unknown | 1994 |
Movie | The Making of 'Reality Bites' | Unknown | 1994 |
Series | TV Nation | Unknown | 1994 |
Movie | Girls' Night Out | Unknown | 1994 |
Movie | Suspicious | Unknown | 1994 |
Series | Space Ghost Coast to Coast | Unknown | 1994-04-15 |
Series | Ellen | Unknown | 1994-03-30 |
Series | Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man | Unknown | 1994-03-05 |
Series | Dennis Miller Live | Unknown | 1994-04-22 |
Movie | Montreal International Comedy Festival '94 | Herself | 1994-03-05 |
Series | HBO Comedy Half-Hour | Unknown | 1994 |
Movie | Reality Bites | Vickie Miner | 1994-02-18 |
Series | HBO First Look | Unknown | 1994-03-01 |
Movie | The 45th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | Unknown | 1993 |
Movie | Morning Man at 88.0 | Unknown | 1993 |
Series | WWF Raw | Unknown | 1993-01-11 |
Series | The Adventures of Pete & Pete | Unknown | 1993-12-05 |
Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
Series | Late Show with David Letterman | Unknown | 1993-08-30 |
Series | Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City | Unknown | 1993 |
Series | America Undercover | Unknown | 1993-03-05 |
Series | The Ben Stiller Show | Unknown | 1992 |
Series | Stand-Up Stand-Up | Unknown | 1992 |
Movie | The 15th Annual Young Comedians Special | Unknown | 1992 |
Series | The Larry Sanders Show | Paula | 1992-08-15 |
Series | Vicki! | Unknown | 1992-08-31 |
Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
Series | Mad About You | Unknown | 1992-09-23 |
Movie | That's What Women Want | Unknown | 1992 |
Movie | Laughing Back: Comedy Takes a Stand | Herself | 1992-03-07 |
Movie | Passion | Unknown | 1991 |
Movie | Late for Dinner | Unknown | 1991 |
Series | Sex in the 90's | Unknown | 1991 |
Series | Home Improvement | Unknown | 1991-09-17 |
Series | Seinfeld | Unknown | 1990-05-31 |
Series | Law & Order | Unknown | 1990-09-13 |
Series | The Simpsons | Unknown | 1989-12-17 |
Movie | Kiki's Delivery Service | Unknown | 1989 |
Series | American Experience | Unknown | 1988-10-04 |
Series | Biography | Unknown | 1987-04-06 |
Series | An Evening at the Improv | Unknown | 1982 |
Series | Entertainment Tonight | Unknown | 1981-09-14 |
Series | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
Series | Today | Unknown | 1952-01-14 |