No Go on Garofalo

Left Coast Report, via email | 6-9-03 | James Hirsen

[Paul Atreides]

On the heels of Janeane Garofalo having had an HBO project placed on hold, the comedian has just gotten some bad news from ABC.

Garofalo's pending sitcom, "Slice o' Life," has been cut. According to Daily Variety, the network let Janeane's show go because of the "direction of the series story line."

Through an unnamed source close to Garofalo, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker says that Janeane believes "her politics and all the hate mail the right-wing lobby stirred up during the war is what is behind all this."

An ABC spokeswoman told the newspaper that the decision to drop the show was based on the program's merits and that Garofalo's politics never came "into the decision-making process whatsoever."

The Left Coast Report is amazed at how vast the right-wing conspiracy has become. Now it even includes Disney, the same group that is financing Michael Moore.

[Paul Atreides]

Well, Janeane, you have just been treated to what conservative talk radio hosts go through.

Put some ice on it.

[TheBigB]

(i)An ABC spokeswoman told the newspaper that the decision to drop the show was based on the program's merits

...or lack thereof.

Schadenfreude-o-rama, baby! :)

[Richard Kimball]

Hope she doesn't decide to slice something else now that she's thrown her career down the toilet for no particular reason.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Could it be that Janeane Garofalo is boring, boring, boring?

[gridlock]

Hey, but I wanna hear somebody harping on about how we were wrong to liberate Iraq for a half hour a week. What about catering to my desires?

[Paul Atreides]

I don't see the appeal of Janeane. However, I am enjoying the whining of the left, now that their own tactics are being used against them. They are so indignant. They cannot believe that the First Amendment works more than one way. A person cannot even politely disagree with those people without being labeled a Nazi.

[amused]

Through an unnamed source close to Garofalo, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker says that Janeane believes "her politics and all the hate mail the right-wing lobby stirred up during the war is what is behind all this."

The public has spoken!

[Paul Atreides]

Kinda breaks one's heart, doesn't it? ;-)

[dead]

The funniest line about this came from Artie Lang on the Howard Stern show. He said:

"The biggest losers in all this are the American people, who will be denied the opportunity to watch this brilliant show."

Guffaws all around after that comment.

[Clara Lou]

Janeane believes "her politics and all the hate mail the right-wing lobby stirred up during the war is what is behind all this."
Maybe Janeane needs to think about how the marketplace works. You have a product people like, people buy it. Unfortunately, Janeane spoiled her own product. As many have said, Janeane, put some ice on it. Then move on.

[Im Your Huckleberry]

Yes, I feel like telling her to "put some ice on it" too.

The greasy, skanky, Garofalo always left me clammy. She's such an ugly be-hatch. I love what she thinks is her "trendy" alterna-look, with her thick-black framed glasses, and her unwashed, greasy hair hanging in braids, and her bandana (I'm assuming she uses that to keep wiping the oil from her greasy face?).

Garofalo is the typical self-hating liberal. She was obviously the fat, pudgy, ugly girl in school, and like most leftists, this self-hate is directed outward towards the talented, good looking and successful.

Ever notice how ugly most leftists are? They're all the gnomes, trolls, and mutants of the world. They're the rejects. They're the dregs. Remember Clinton's cabinet? It looked like a circus sideshow, with the midget Reich, the hulking Reno...it was like a casting call for Lord of the Rings or something.

I've come to believe that the left attracts all the angry, bitter, self-hating ugly losers of the world.

[Dstorm]

Poor Janeane. guess you should of
KEPT YOUR BIG FAT PIE HOLE MOUTH SHUT!!!

[amused]

To be honest, I don't know what she was expecting.

When you are on every single show on TV screaming how you views are being silenced...people scratch their heads.

When people disagree with you and your retort is that they are mindless sheep, they will change the channel.

And worst of all (in cold but true splendor), as any Simpsons fan knows soberiety is not the ticket to comedy (oh Barney, how could you!).

[Grig]

She could get massive rating by crawling on glass to the White House to appologise.

[blackdog]

First amendment rights to free speech are guaranteed by our constitution. Of course free speech has consequences. One of them is that if you are a maybe famous hollywood pundit that shoots your mouth off in front of a camera over issues not produced and edited by professional script writers, your free speech may come back to haunt you.

[CaptRon]

"her politics and all the hate mail the right-wing lobby stirred up during the war is what is behind all this."

I love this. The right wing has this little cabal that stirs up all this trouble, but when her leftist campadres stage a protest it's spontaneous, everyone doing what comes naturally.

[stands2reason]

It looked like a circus sideshow, with the midget Reich, the hulking Reno...it was like a casting call for Lord of the Rings or something.

ROFL!!!

[ChadGore]

By Jeneane Garafalo

I don't get it. I'm a good person who lives an honest life and is nice to people, yet for some reason, I seem to have the worst luck: My toast always falls jam-side down, the one day it rains is always the day I leave my windows open, and the one time I have unprotected sex in a public-beach changing room, I end up with chlamydia! What gives?

Yes, every single year, I go for my annual gyno visit and, without fail, I find out I've got chlamydia again. Why am I always the one to get chlamydia? It's just not fair!

It's not like I'm any more sexually active than the average girl. My best friend Susan Suranden has sex with her boyfriend almost every single night, and she's never had it. Me, I'll be lucky if I have 200 one-night stands in an entire year! So if she's having sex at least 10 times as often as me, why hasn't she ever had it? Did I do something wrong in a past life? I don't think I've done anything recently to deserve being cursed with chronic chlamydia. I guess I'm just a chlamydia magnet or something.

I know what you're probably thinking: Susan's so dumb, she never got her first infection cleared up. Well, that's just not true. Sure, I was totally freaked when I first got it and the DNC convention back in 2000. (I thought I was going to go blind or crazy or something.) But when my doctor told me that, if caught early, chlamydia is easily cured with just a day's worth of antibiotics, I was totally relieved. Thank goodness my first experience wasn't like the time I caught that rare strain of Southeast Asian chlamydia. Lying in that hospital bed with my urethra on fire made me appreciate how easy it was to get rid the normal chlamydia I usually get.

I'm not irresponsible, either. I take care of myself, because I totally wouldn't want to spread it to other people. Especially cute guys. There's nothing more embarrassing than getting a call from some hottie you picked up at the bar last month accusing you of giving him chlamydia. Once that happens to you half a dozen times, you start to get real careful and make sure you go to the doctor as soon as you see symptoms.

And it's not like I don't have standards. I tend to go for goth-wanna-be, Micheal Moore-type guys, the kind who'd be very unlikely to have an STD. Plus, I almost always have them use a condom if they don't swear up and down that they're clean. So what's the deal?

We've all been there. I mean, I'm hardly the only one out there having oral, vaginal, and anal sexual contact. I'm just the one who winds up with a pus-like discharge shooting out of my hoo-hoo.

Sometimes, I think it's my family's fault. The Glauber clan is cursed. My dad died in a drunk-driving accident when I was 5, and my mom is just plain crazy. She actually got pregnant when she was 40 after dating a guy she worked with for a week. She even kept the baby. That's why I'm on the pill. I've been more or less lucky on that front (don't ask), yet I've got to admit that this chlamydia thing gets me down. Maybe if I came from a different family, I might have better luck.

Oh, listen to me pissing and moaning: "My family's crazy"... "I wish I was luckier"... "I'm always contracting chlamydia." Everybody's got problems. It's not like I'm starving on the street without a penny to my name. I've got good friends, a good job, and a halfway-decent sex life. Maybe instead of whining about how much I seem to get chlamydia, I should be thankful for the times I don't have it.

I must say, I would probably have a more positive attitude about the whole chlamydia thing if I didn't have it right now. But, as they say, the grass is always greener on the STD-free side of the fence, right?

[amused]

I've come to believe that the left attracts all the angry, bitter, self-hating ugly losers of the world.

Possible but without picking on your post I wanted to bring up something here. Too often these days I am confronting an attitude on both sides(though at present much more so on the left) where the evilness of ones opponent is taken as defacto goodness of onesself. Examples as such:

"DEMs/GOPers are mindless idiots and not thoughtful like us Gopers/Dems."

"Liberals/conservatives only care about power and wish to destroy this country while we conservatives/liberals are trying to save it."

"FR/DU has the best political minds and thought provoking articles while DU/FR has a bunch of juveniles who can't spell, let alone think."

Now all the above can be true to a degree without the need for self-aggrandizing.

[veronica]

Ha ha. She's rather lacking in talent anyway.