264 - Janeane Garofalo
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Championed as a Hollywood icon of the Slacker generation, Janeane Garofalo is a brilliant and fascinating stand-up, with the structure-free style you'd expect from someone who read from notes on her first HBO special. She's candid about crying daily within the TV "sausage factory" of crime drama which draws in former film stars, and lets loose on the makers of 24 and Criminal Minds. She also talks about her activism, how her parents "raised a quitter", and turns out to be surprisingly well-informed on British comedy...
Extra material for members of the Insiders Club includes Janeane on the competition between reviewers to be as critical as possible, how it felt to be actively passed on by Netflix, the trials of selling shows when you eschew social media, and a secret message left to Stu when he went for a wee and left the recorder running... All available when you join the Insiders Club for £2 per month or whatever you think is fair at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders
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| 0:00.0 | Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy? |
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| 0:40.0 | Hello there in this podcast I comedian Stuart Goldsmith get into the heads and |
| 0:46.9 | minds and hearts of my fellow comedians and find out how they do their thing |
| 0:51.1 | how they write their material how they develop their personas, and in the case of today's |
| 0:55.2 | guest, how they cope with a life after enormous stardom. So let's have the music, please. Welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this is the comedians comedian |
| 1:20.9 | podcast my guest today is Janine Garofalo I could not believe |
| 1:25.9 | that I managed to bag Janine she is I mean depending on when you grew up she is either a massive celebrity kind of Hollywood icon of the |
| 1:36.6 | the I mean what are we not millennials it's millennials now isn't it |
| 1:40.4 | Generation X she was an icon of Generation X and she was in some very famous |
| 1:45.0 | movies and got tight cast as we will hear as someone who represented that whole spirit of a |
| 1:52.1 | generation. |
| 1:53.0 | She is also, and has always been, a phenomenal stand-up comedian. |
| 1:57.0 | You only need to look at her first HBO special online |
| 2:00.0 | to see her, apparently, and it turns out in this episode we'll talk about it |
| 2:04.8 | taking notes on stage for her first HBO special and we're gonna ask her in detail |
| 2:10.3 | about that very deliberate approach to non-deliberateness to a sort of a very loose structure-free kind of a style. |
| 2:19.0 | I really really enjoyed talking to Janine. I think you're going to enjoy it too and so let's get on with this and I'll chat you again in the middle this is Janine Garofalo. |
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