Great NY Times piece on Janeane Garofalo and Majority Report

All hail Janeane!


And Don't Even Get Her Started on the War
By PAULA SPAN

Published: March 27, 2005

MINUTES before showtime on a Tuesday night, Janeane Garofalo slides into the studio carrying a microphone and a backpack stuffed with research. On the desktop, she lines up provisions: a can of supercaffeinated Red Bull, a can of diet Sunkist, an enormous bottle of water.

Years ago, when they were scuffling stand-up comedians, Ms. Garofalo and her friend Sam Seder used to fantasize about having their very own radio show - perhaps on a pirate station broadcasting from a garbage scow off Rhode Island, Mr. Seder had suggested.

This is almost as good. For the past year - March 31 marks its first anniversary - the fledgling liberal network called Air America Radio has been trying to counter the conservative dominance of talk radio, and Ms. Garofalo and Mr. Seder have shared its evening time slot. In the process, Ms. Garofalo has become a genuine radio personality: not one with the clout and reach of a Rush Limbaugh, but one who seems less a comedian-with-a-cause and more a committed stalwart, happy to spend the rest of her evenings slinging insults at the powers that be.

"Hello and welcome to 'The Majority Report,' " she carols after the show's theme song - a blast of Billy Bragg's and Wilco's "All You Fascists." From the other side of the desk, Mr. Seder touts tonight's guests and topics, including a riff on Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. "The torture czar," Ms. Garofalo remarks, on cue.

more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/arts/27span.html?ex=1112590800&en=68bacd3ed4bbfa2a&ei=5070

Garofalo is one of the few celebrites that I would actually like to meet.

she's just as cool as you'd expect in real life, too

Thanks for posting it!

We are so lucky to have Air America Radio!

:applause:

She really is 'most improved'. I thought it was a novelty to hear her on a regular talk show (I don't get as many opportunities to listen to Franken). The novelty of her on the radio started to wear thin, though. She's always interrupting guests and telling them how SHE KNOWS exactly what they mean. She's gotten much better at sitting back and letting them finish a thought.

She still needs to get away from repeating something with a different adjective over and over again. "These people are intellectually lazy, they're incurious, they're simple headed, they're stupid, they're moronic, they're not that smart,etc." OK JANEANE, WE GET IT!!!!

Still, ya gotta love her.

what a tragedy we don't have him.

and while I really like her, she gets too emotional. She was twirling her hair around her finger, spilled her can of soda on herself, and was really upset. Scarborough, who was the MC, gave her the last word, saying she was the most upset of everyone, and she had a hard time getting a coherent message out due to her emotions.

She needs to distance herself a bit, in my humble opinion, to be an effective speaker for liberals/pregressives.

Great article.

I am so grateful that she has taken this direction 'cause it benefits so many people!!!

because she looks very similar to JG. Just cute as a button. I thought the article was great, especially since I'm a new AAR listener - here on KXEB in Texas, of all places!