Janeane Garofalo has been performing stand-up since the Eighties and has worked on TV shows such as The Ben Stiller Show, Saturday Night Live. Ideal, and The Larry Sanders Show, where she played the booker Paula.

She has also had two HBO specials, although she hit the headlines for the wrong reasons in 2009, when she walked off stage at the Latitude festival in Suffolk just ten minutes into her set.

Garofalo is an outspoken activist, and was instrumental in launching the first liberal radio network in the US, Air America Radio, where she hosted her own talk show.

In movies she has starred in The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Dogma, Cable Guy, Reality Bites, Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion and lent her voice to Ratatouille. She has also had straight acting roles in 24 and The West Wing. She also co-wrote Feel This Book with Ben Stiller.