Posted on 02/15/2009 5:14:59 PM PST by EdnaMode
In most offices, having even one sarcastic, socially artless computer expert is barely tolerable. But on “24,” the Fox action serial, the collision of two acerbic, tech-savvy employees played by Janeane Garofalo and Mary Lynn Rajskub is a welcome development for viewers.
Monday night’s episode of “24” features the pairing up of sorts between Chloe O’Brian (Ms. Rajskub), the computer hacker who has long helped guide the hero Jack Bauer through his life-or-death adventures, and Janis Gold (Ms. Garofalo), an F.B.I. agent deeply suspicious of her new office mate Chloe.
It is a rivalry meant to leaven the often-grim, high-pressure thriller with humor. And it’s an inside joke for Ms. Rajskub and Ms. Garofalo, longtime pals whose careers often intersect.
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Garofalo Backs Rather, Declares Petraeus ‘Dishonest...He Is Betraying Us’
By Brent Baker | September 22, 2007
Friday night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, “actress/comic” Janeane Garofalo asserted she has “no doubt” that, on the Bush National Guard story, “there were executives at CBS that folded under right wing coercion” and she endorsed MoveOn.org’s ad which maligned General David Petraeus as “General Betray Us.” The tattooed Garofalo, who has joined the cast of Fox’s 24, charged: “Petraeus has been dishonest” and “is betraying us.”
On the Dan Rather lawsuit, she fretted incoherently about how “it’s amazing how the right wing has done it in this country and it doesn’t seem like it’s a democracy at all when you let that happen.” On Petraeus and the MoveOn.org ad, she ludicrously saw the “mainstream media” as colluding with those who considered the ad over the line: “The thing is is to pretend that it’s MoveOn.org that has the problem, and that the mainstream media allows that nonsense to continue. Yet, he is betraying us.”
http://newsbusters.org/people/janeane-garofalo
Janeane Garofalo: ‘Bush is a War Criminal,’ ‘O’Reilly Can Kiss My Fat A**’
By Noel Sheppard | September 22, 2007
Beginning with her tirade about America’s support of Israel being “the detriment of the Palestinian people and the American people,” to telling Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly to “kiss my fat a**,” and concluding with her statement that “George Bush is a war criminal,” Garofalo demonstrated just how totally unhinged Hollywoodans have become.
http://newsbusters.org/people/janeane-garofalo
Antidote to Viagra.
E:You were a vegetarian for 18 years…
JG (Janeane Garofalo): Right, but I’m no longer a vegetarian.
E: I read that.
JG: I’m a vegetarian except for bacon. The amount of times I eat bacon is negligible though. I’d say I eat bacon once or twice a year. But other than that — no meat at all.
E: Now I know you’re very politically involved. Are you excited to see Obama in office?
JG: Yes, very. But I’m not excited when he panders to the right wing. I’m not excited about that at all. Democrats make that mistake all the time. The DLC is responsible. They think it’s prudent to pander to the least among us – which would be conservatives. And it’s a very vocal minority. They’re just the squeakiest wheel so they get greased.
When Obama tries to “reach across the aisle,” it’s a fool’s errand. They will never be bipartisan because their ideology won’t allow for it. So I don’t know why Obama is doing things like taking reproduction justice out of the stimulus package. Stuff like that is just nonsensical.
E: What are three things you’d like to really see Obama change in this country?
JG: I’d like to see him be a proud liberal and say it. You know what I mean? There’s no shame in being a liberal – it’s something to be very proud of. He should say it – cause he is one – and he should be proud to be one. And since it is clear and has been clear since Reagan that the republicans, the “conservatives” will NEVER play ball…NEVER…fu%$ um.
Their policies have destroyed us and most of the world – that’s a fact not an opinion. Their policies of deregulation, pre-emptive strikes, unmitigated support for Israel to the detriment of the Israelis, Palestinian’s, Americans, the British. Every single policy that “conservative republicans” have put forth since Reagan has destroyed us. And we affect most of the world, so why do they still get a say? That’s what blows my mind. It’s almost like self-flagellation or masochism in some way. We keep going to that portion. They are NEVER going to compromise. The thing is that the more you give in to something like that, the more they take advantage.
The reason a person is a conservative republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that’s science – that’s neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican. It’s counter-intuitive. And they revel in their anti-intellectualism. They revel in their cruelty.
I don’t know if you heard me talking to Jenny a while ago, but I was saying that first you have to be an asshole and then comes the conservatism. You gotta be a dick to cleave onto their ideology.
E: This might be an appropriate time to segue into Sarah Palin. I would love to know what you think about Palin.
JG: Probably what most people think about Sarah Palin. She’s small-minded and mean-spirited. It has nothing to do with gender — I don’t give a shit about her gender — she is what the Republican Party has become: obstructionist, contrarians, small-minded, all of these things. She just happens to be attractive. There’s definitely something wrong with her. She’s lacking in so many areas. Of course she’s successful with a segment of the country because she represents that lesser segment of the country. It’s people’s lesser nature – their human frailty. You know whatever’s wrong with them is what she is about.
E: I think it’s safe to say she’s done some pretty nutty things.
JG: It’s not even nutty. It really is neuroscience. I truly believe that it has something to do with their limbic brain. I really believe that some people’s limbic brain dominates more than others. Our limbic brain controls all our emotions and it causes us to be irrational. Our limbic brain goes into action when we’re ecstatic, frightened, when we’re having sex. I really believe that if a neuroscientist examined the brain of somebody who identified as a conservative, they would find it’s wired differently.
E: I know you’re about to do your set, so I don’t want to keep you. Are there any projects you have in the works?
JC: I just wrapped on 24. I’m sort of always doing stand-up. I’m doing some dates here, San Francisco, Portland, England, Ireland, Melbourne. So just waiting for another job. I think I might be doing another series on USA next year, but it’s still just theoretical.
Where boners go to die.
Don't Taze me Chlo......LOL!
Don't mess with Chloe!
Mary Lynn's baby:)
Yeah, exactly except it would have to be a bazooka or something larger...
I do try to look away when she’s on. All this talk about torture... SHE is torture to look at. There had better be some sort of payoff for forcing her on us.
I just wrapped on 24.
Is that a clue that her character has been bumped off? Or has the entire show wrapped?
I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to watch to relax tonight. I was leaning towards an episode of “Firefly”. Now I’m going to watch the only thing that I have ever enjoyed with Janeane Garofalo in it.
Team America.
Ha ha! I like it!!
I liked her better when she had a nasty attitude. :)
She's mellowed since she lost her job with CTU and became a "stay at home mom".......
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