Janeane Garofalo gig sparks protest in Somerville

Boston Herald ^ | 05/08/09 | Tenley Woodman

[cubreporter]

Her role on “24” is awful.

Isn’t it though? What’s the point? She stares like a dead fish and has added NOTHING to the show. Thank God she is not going to be back next season. Who needs her? Chloe on the other hand trumps barfalo up one side and down the other.

[cubreporter]

Her role on “24” is awful.

Isn’t it though? What’s the point? She stares like a dead fish and has added NOTHING to the show. Thank God she is not going to be back next season. Who needs her? Chloe on the other hand trumps barfalo up one side and down the other.

[Tzimisce]

It’s cute that there are people who still think she’s funny.

[massgopguy]

She also played the Medieval wench in The Cable Guy. I think she played herself. Awful.

[pepsi_junkie]

Yes, they took the things people liked about her (though I didn’t) which were her smartass smugness and sarcasm and replaced it with neurosis when dealing with bosses and nastiness when dealing with subordinates and peers. Man she has created an unlikable character. Somehow when it was Edgar doing the same thing, he seemed likeable. When it’s Garafalo it doesnt work.

[massgopguy]

Only 25 minutes until THE EMPIRE OF HATE!!! (THUNDER!)

[from occupied ga]

and an entertainer second

Garofalo is an entertainer? Who knew?

[mriguy67]

The left believes we Americans should be more friendly to the world so they will like us, yet when the world sees how the left destroys the lives of American conservatives, I bet they call them hypocrites

[McGruff]

...let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks.

...we've discussed this before, the limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person, and it's pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are misfiring.

You Bostonians gonna take that?

[N. Theknow]

Janeane Garofalo wouldn’t even be famous today (and given a stage to make political comments that make wire services) if she’d been political first and an entertainer second.

She seems to have adopted the persona of showing she is a "real big-time team player" to brown nose the powers that be in liberal La-La Land.

[DCBryan1]

20-40 armed and pissed off protesters would make me smile ;)

[DCBryan1]

20-40 armed and pissed off protesters would make me smile ;)

[a fool in paradise]

That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks.

And she used a homophobic reference to attack people of "color".

[cubreporter]

She IS an unlikeable character. Angry inside...just like the rest of the lib/dem/lefties...they cant’ help it. It’s who they are. Sad for them, huh? Have a good weekend and... BE HAPPY!!! :)

[cubreporter]

A role made for her no doubt.