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Article: The Marlon Brando of stand-up comedy. (Janeane Garofalo talks with Phyllis Diller)(Interview)
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- May 1, 1996
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Quick-witted comic and truly awful bike messenger Janeane Garofalo talks with comedy bigwig Phyllis Diller
The current misconception in these sitcom-clogged times is that everyone is funny. But the truth is that everyone is not funny. As Edmund Gwenn, a Hollywood character actor of the 1940s, said to Jack Lemmon, visiting him on his deathbed: "[Dying's] hard. . . . But not as hard as doing comedy." Janeane Garofalo, however, is funny - very funny - continuously funny, and, best of all, endearingly funny. Like other comics of the post-variety-show era, she does not "tell jokes," rather she takes on the world around her. Though she says she'll always return to ...
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