June 09, 2003

Fun Fametracker thread about Garofalo's scuttled sitcom, Slice o' Life. Stay tuned for her next project, Victim o' the Real Terrorists.

Posted by Jim Treacher at June 9, 2003 09:03 AM
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This is beyond parody, Jim. I excerpt:

This is absolute bullshit. Granted, I don't think Janeane's talents would be best served in a sitcom format. It's like McCarthyism all over again.

Posted by: Dave Weigel at June 9, 2003 10:03 AM

OK, here's more.

Couple that with the fact that the last thing ABC/Disney wants is to be grouped in with the "liberal media". Any network that airs a tv show where Janeane Garofalo is the star is suspect to that. Somehow NBC gets away with Martin Sheen - I don't know quite how that works. But Janeane is a different can'o'worms. Martin Sheen has a dignity about him that separates him from the chaff.

Oh, yes. FEEL the dignity.

Posted by: Dave Weigel at June 9, 2003 10:07 AM

Yep.

Posted by: JT at June 9, 2003 10:14 AM

"The only funny bone inside Janeane was Ben Stiller's."

Not a bad point.

Posted by: MD2020 at June 9, 2003 10:23 AM

But don't you think she'd make a better "Hillary: The Movie" than Sharon Stone?

Posted by: Hoodie Craw at June 9, 2003 10:34 AM