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How to Be a Drama Queen: The war in Hollywood is a special kind of thing.
In the mid 1960s, a friend of mine landed his first job as a comedy writer. He was hired by Jackie Gleason's manager, or "wrangler," to use the term we prefer to describe the guy whose job it is to mollify, coddle, and keep tense company with the star. His job was to write a few jokes for one of Gleason's appearances.
As he and the wrangler walked slowly to Gleason's hotel-room door, my friend clutching his jokes on a few damp pages, Gleason's wrangler suddenly stopped. He turned to my friend.
"Before we go in there, kid," he said, "there's something you gotta know."
Wide eyes from my friend.
"Ya see, kid," he said, "what you gotta ...
- Janeane Garofalo Interviewed About her Comedy Career
- Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday October 23, 1994 700+ words
...00-0000 LIANE HANSEN, Host: Janeane Garofalo, I'm afraid I'm going to have...What does your hair look like today? JANEANE GAROFALO, `Saturday Night Live': It's...just change my hair color. HANSEN: Janeane Garofalo has had the opportunity to try out...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 29, 2008 700+ words
...greats Lewis Black, Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo and famed comedy troupe The Kids in...and the night he spent in jail, to Janeane Garofalo's thoughts about her stint on...Kids in the Hall Saturday, May 31 Janeane Garofalo Saturday, June 14 The season premieres...
- The Marlon Brando of stand-up comedy. (Janeane Garofalo talks with Phyllis...
- Magazine article from: Interview Diller, Phyllis May 1, 1996 700+ words
...comic and truly awful bike messenger Janeane Garofalo talks with comedy bigwig Phyllis Diller...But not as hard as doing comedy." Janeane Garofalo, however, is funny - very funny...lot of questions for you, Janeane. JANEANE GAROFALO: [laughs] I've got a lot of answers...
- Excite@Home takes comedy online as official Internet host of the Sixth Annual...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire January 31, 2000 700+ words
...Sixth Annual US Comedy Arts Festival; Janeane Garofalo to crown funniest virtual jokester...survival of the funniest when comedian Janeane Garofalo challenges users to participate in...excite.com. "We are excited to have Janeane Garofalo utilize the new Excite Inbox service...
- Janeane Garofalo. (The Progressive Interview).(Interview)
- Magazine article from: The Progressive DiNovella, Elizabeth May 1, 2003 700+ words
Janeane Garofalo is first and foremost a comedian. She started her stand-up career...Q: * Why are you speaking out against this * War in Iraq? Janeane Garofalo: I'm so public about this because I've been asked to do so...
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- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel TIM CUPRISIN February 19, 1996 700+ words
No, Janeane Garofalo didn't drop off the face of the Earth when she left last season...writing ever in sketch comedy." But she waxes as nostalgic as Janeane Garofalo can ever wax about the excitement leading to the opening of the...
- Reality doesn't bite for new 'SNL' cast member Janeane Garofalo. (Originated...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Storm, Jonathan August 31, 1994 700+ words
...satisfied until we can eat our television sets,'' says Janeane Garofalo, decrying America's lust for comforting mediocrity...also start to laugh, loudly _ though not as loudly as Janeane Garofalo, who wanders through the room after her set but can always...
- Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller think this partnership thing is, well, a joke;...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Schaefer, Stephen August 6, 1999 700+ words
Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo are not Burns and Allen, Lucy and Ricky or even Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. For one thing, can you imagine those comic duos making...
