Janeane Garofalo has been working as an actor, comedian, and occasional writer for over thirty years. She has had at least one film or TV role every single year since 1991, and she has 164 acting credits to her name on IMDB. While Janeane Garofalo might not be the most famous name in Hollywood, she is clearly a very successful and prolific performer.
She is perhaps best known for being a cast member of Saturday Night Live all the way back in the mid-1990s. While she only lasted on SNL for one season, she was part of a very memorable cast that included Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, David Spade, and Mike Myers. In her short time at SNL she impersonated many famous women, including Madonna, Martha Stewart, Pamela Anderson, and even First Lady Hilary Clinton. She was not fired from the famous sketch comedy series, but rather she decided to leave on her own terms because she was not impressed with the comedy on the show that season. Fortunately for Garofalo, leaving Saturday Night Live does not seemed to have harmed her career at all. Here is what happened to Janeane Garofalo's career in Hollywood and how much money she is worth today.
6 Sketch Comedy
To many people, Janeane Garofalo will always be best remembered for her sketch comedy work. Her first TV role was as a cast member on the short-lived sketch comedy series The Ben Stiller Show, which aired a total of thirteen episodes in the early 1990s. Garofalo appeared on all thirteen episodes of the show, and she also worked on it as a writer. The show went on to win an Emmy Award in 1993 for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program. These days, Garofalo continues to make guest appearances on sketch comedy shows. In 2014 she was featured in a sketch on Inside Amy Schumer, and in 2018 she appeared on an epiosde of Baroness von Sketch Show.
5 Stand-Up Comedy
Janeane Garofalo got her big break as a stand-up comedian around the same time that she started landing film and TV roles. She began performing stand-up specials on TV in the mid 1990s, including a couple of appearances on HBO. She has released two full-length comedy specials in recent years, one called If You Will in 2010 and one called If I May in 2016.
4 Film Career
Janeane Garofalo's first film appearance was in the 1991 science fiction movie Late for Dinner, in which she played a very small role as a cashier. However, her big break as a film actor came a few years later, when she played an important supporting character in the 1994 film Reality Bites. After she left SNL in 1995, Garofalo went on to star in several more popular films of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Some of these films include Wet Hot American Summer, The Cable Guy, and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. In more recent years, she has acted in movies like Ratatouille, Sandy Wexler, and PAW Patrol: The Movie.
3 Television Appearances
Janeane Garofalo has appeared on many more TV shows than just The Ben Stiller Show and Saturday Night Live. She has played key roles on several beloved televsion comedies, including Paula on The Larry Sanders Show, and Beth on both of the Wet Hot American Summer reboot series. She was nominated for two Emmy Awards for her acting on The Larry Sanders Show. Garofalo has also played recurring roles on many TV drama series, such as The West Wing, 24, and Felicity.
2 What Else Has She Been Up To?
Janeane Garofalo has continued to work steadily as an actor and comedian. However, she has also undertaken numerous other creative projects. In 1999, she co-wrote a book with Ben Stiller called Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction. The book, which was a humorous parody of popular self-help books, became a New York Times bestseller. She made her one and only foray into directing in 2001 when she made a short film called Housekeeping. From 2004 until 2006, Garofalo hosted a program on the Air America radio network called The Majority Report. The Majority Report is still being produced to this day, but Garofalo has long since stepped back to work on other endeavors.
1 Janeane Garofalo's Net Worth Today
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Janeane Garofalo has a net worth of $5 million. While that is not a particularly high net worth for a successful Hollywood actor, Garofalo has clearly made enough money in her career to live comfortably. She has done many, many projects over the years, but they are often smaller productions with a niche audience, which explains why she isn't incredibly wealthy despite having played so many roles over the past thirty years.