Janet Varney
Janet Varney (born February 16, 1976) is an American comedic actress best known for being the current hostess of TBS's Dinner and a Movie.
Works
The Muppet Script
When most people think of the Muppets, they think of the colorful characters made out of fleece and foam. But as with every movie, it all starts on the written page. Jim Henson's team of writers began with Jerry Juhl, and he was joined by Jack Burns in penning the script for THE MUPPET MOVIE. When mixed with the soundtrack by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher, it has become a well-loved classic.
Release Date: 2025-02-09
Character: Janice
But I'm a Shoe
This is the story of a woman who wanted to fly comfortably, so she used a new service called “Objectified Travel” just to be reminded that the grass isn't always greener.
Release Date: 2024-11-13
Character: Shoe/Girl
Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie!
The holiday season has arrived, and brilliant but accident-prone Steve Urkel has already ruined his local celebration by publicly humiliating a shopping mall Santa. In his attempt to make things right and score some nice points with the big guy in the North Pole, Steve creates an invention that only makes things worse. Using his big brain and even bigger heart, Steve must find the real Santa to see if together they can help the city rediscover the holiday spirit.
Release Date: 2023-11-21
Character: Old Lady Buechler / Amber / Woman (voice)
Vote Count: 15
Platonic
A platonic pair of former best friends approaching midlife reconnect after a long rift. The duo’s friendship becomes more consuming—and destabilizes their lives in a hilarious way.
Release Date: 2023-05-23
Character: Vanessa
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 133
The Legend of Vox Machina
They're rowdy, they're ragtag, they're misfits turned mercenaries for hire. Vox Machina is more interested in easy money and cheap ale than actually protecting the realm. But when the kingdom is threatened by evil, this boisterous crew realizes that they are the only ones capable of restoring justice.
Release Date: 2022-01-27
Character: Vilya (voice)
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 495
Fails Marathon: Christmas Week 2021
Holiday season is here with fun laughs.
Release Date: 2021-12-21
Character: Critical Role Host (archive footage)
Episode Count: 3
Injustice
When Lois Lane is killed, an unhinged Superman decides to take control of the Earth. Determined to stop him, Batman creates a team of freedom-fighting heroes. But when superheroes go to war, can the world survive?
Release Date: 2021-10-09
Character: Diana Prince / Wonder Woman (voice)
Vote Count: 793
See You Next Christmas
Annie and Tom Clark throw an annual holiday party, “Clarkmas.” It’s become the go-to event for their ragtag group of friends. When chronically single Natalie and Logan continue to run into each other at the party year after year, they begin to wonder if maybe they’re meant to be...
Release Date: 2021-08-20
Character: Lenora
Vote Count: 10
Country Comfort
When an up-and-coming young country singer accepts a job as a nanny with a musical family, she finds the bond she's always missed.
Release Date: 2021-03-19
Character: Summer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 71
Dicktown
Welcome to Richardsville, NC (aka DICKTOWN to the locals), its famous boy detective, John Hunchman, and his hired muscle, David Purefoy. Except they're not boys any more and while they're still detectives, they still only solve crimes for teenagers.
Release Date: 2020-07-09
Character: Tracey
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 7
Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City.
Release Date: 2019-11-29
Character: Mera (voice)
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1080
Bless the Harts
The lives of a group of Southerners who are always broke as a joke and struggling for the American dream of status and wealth. What they don’t realize is that they’re already rich — in friends, family and laughter.
Release Date: 2019-09-29
Character: Kitty (voice)
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 48
Planet Claire
They call her Planet Claire cause she's the size of a planet, but 11 y.o. Claire turns her insults around. She is a planet and if you're lucky maybe she'll let you stay.
Release Date: 2019-03-02
Character: Claire (voice)
RiffTrax Live: Day of the Shorts: SF Sketchfest 2019
Bill and Kevin are joined onstage by the great Paul F. Tompkins, and together they host and riff an amazing set of bizarre short films. The shorts cover every subject under the sun (y’know, because “Day”), from workplace safety to childhood safety to sentient talking pillow safety. And that’s not all - we’ve got more guests, riffing teams and legends galore! John Hodgman, Frank Conniff & Trace Beaulieu, Cole Stratton & Janet Varney, and Bridget Nelson with Sean Thomason, RiffTrax Senior Writer, making his live riffing debut.
Release Date: 2019-02-28
Character: Self
Vote Count: 2
Fortune Rookie
On the advice of a fortune teller in a bathroom, Janet Varney leaves showbiz behind to become a psychic. Exploring her gifts (such as they are), Janet parses the future of a Los Angeles populated by the famous, the not-yet-famous, from aspiring cult leaders to aging boy bands. She reads palms, cards and the occasional piece of cheese to help those seeking answers, herself most of all.
Release Date: 2018-10-02
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Janet Varney
Episode Count: 8
Um, Actually...
Introducing a game show of fandom minutiae one-upmanship, where nerds do what nerds do best: flaunt encyclopedic nerd knowledge at Millennium Falcon nerd-speed.
Release Date: 2018-09-28
Character: Self - Contestant
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 6
Stan Against Evil
An aging police sheriff who has recently lost his position due to an angry outburst begrudgingly joins an alliance with new sheriff, Evie Barret to battle angry demons haunting their small New Hampshire town.
Release Date: 2016-10-31
Character: Evie Barret
Episode Count: 24
Vote Count: 93
Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse
A struggling comedy duo discovers that surviving the apocalypse is almost as difficult as surviving in Hollywood.
Release Date: 2016-10-14
Character: Shana
Vote Count: 11
American Housewife
A family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.
Release Date: 2016-10-11
Character: Jenn
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 164
HarmonQuest
A fantasy comedy adventure series that melds live action comedians riffing on a stage in front of a live studio audience with animated forays into a fantasy adventure roleplaying game. The intrepid comedians, Dan Harmon, Jeff Davis, and Erin McGathy, along with a rotating special guest member, gather around a kitchen table and attempt to play the game and fail in hilarious fashion, to the chagrin of their adjudicator-referee- Game Master Spencer Crittenden.
Release Date: 2016-07-14
Character: Sedona
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 33
Rifftrax Live: Night of the Shorts - SF Sketchfest 2016
Mike, Kevin, and Bill were joined onstage at SF SKetchfest Live 2016 by very special guest riffers Bridget Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl, Cole Stratton, Janet Varney, Adam Savage, Paul F. Tompkins, and John Hodgman including a gigantic, possible world record TEN PERSON riffing grand finale!
Release Date: 2016-04-04
Character: Herself
Vote Count: 3
Norm of the North
Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, Norm begins life anew as a performing corporate mascot, only to discover that his new employers are directly responsible for the destruction of his polar home.
Release Date: 2016-01-14
Character: Janet (voice)
Vote Count: 346
Rifftrax Live: Night of the Shorts - SF Sketchfest 2015
Mike, Kevin, and Bill take on some of the funniest, most unbelievable vintage shorts we've ever found, live in the beautiful Castro Theatre with a crew of hilarious guest riffers! Shorts performed during this event include One Turkey Two Turkey, Setting Up a Room, Writing Better Social Letters, Live and Learn, Making Sense with Sentences, and Safety - In Danger Out of Doors.
Release Date: 2015-03-06
Character: Herself
Vote Count: 3
The Thrilling Adventure Hour Live
A concert film designed to bring the live Thrilling Adventure Hour experience to those unable to attend a recording of the show was filmed, as a result of the $165,000 that was raised through the show's Kickstarter campaign.
Release Date: 2015-03-01
Character: Rebecca Rose Rushmore
Vote Count: 1
You're the Worst
Narcissistic, brash, and self-destructive Jimmy Shive-Overly thinks all relationships are doomed. Cynical, people-pleasing, and stubborn Gretchen Cutler knows that relationships aren't for her. So when they meet at a wedding, it's only natural that the two of them go home together.
Release Date: 2014-07-17
Character: Becca Barbara
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 224
@midnight with Chris Hardwick
Chris Hardwick will lead three celebrity contestants down the ultimate internet wormhole. Culling from the darkest recesses of social media, they will compete to determine who has the funniest take on the day's pop culture.
Release Date: 2013-10-21
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 19
Present Tense
'Present Tense' is a time-travel comedy short that takes place during the wedding of Alex and Cynthia. Things quickly spiral out of control when the groom's future-selves start popping in to ruin the nuptials. Soon, the bride and groom are watching in horror as their big day is destroyed by a chapel-to-shrapnel laser gunfight and an overabundance of genre conventions.
Release Date: 2013-07-10
Character: Cynthia
RiffTrax Live: Night of the Shorts - SF Sketchfest 2013
Watch Mike, Bill, Kevin, and an all-star crew of hilarious guest riffers take on seven classic less-than-educational shorts, filmed LIVE onstage at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre in January of this year, in all its gritty, low-light, shakey-cam glory! Show includes: Welcome Back Norman Perc! Pop! Sprinkle! - with Cole Stratton (Pop My Culture Podcast) and Janet Varney (The Legend of Korra) Choking: To Save a Life - with Kevin McDonald (The Kids in the Hall) Cooking Terms More Dangerous Than Dynamite - with Adam Savage (Mythbusters) If Mirrors Could Speak - with Kristen Schaal (30 Rock, Bob’s Burgers, Flight of the Conchords) At Your Fingertips: Cylinders - with Paul F. Tompkins (Best Week Ever, Mr. Show, Tangled)
Release Date: 2013-05-30
Character: Herself
Vote Count: 1
Burning Love
Burning Love is a scripted comedy series which is a web spoof of the television shows The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad. Depending on the season, the show either follows a man or a woman who is looking for the perfect mate from a pool of contestants, or has contestants living together in a mansion competing for a cash prize. Ben Stiller is executive co-producer. Season 1 showcases fireman Mark Orlando as the bachelor. Season 2 of the series, which premiered in February 2013, stars June Diane Raphael reprising her role as season 1 contestant Julie, now the bachelorette given the chance to find the perfect man. Season 3 also premiered in 2013 and starred former contestants from Seasons 1 and 2 competing for a $900 prize rather than for love.
Release Date: 2012-06-01
Character: Carly
Episode Count: 28
Vote Count: 36
MyMusic
MyMusic was the primary series that aired on the MyMusicShow YouTube channel. It documented the antics of MyMusic, a transmedia production company where, rather than referring to each other by name, the staff go by the varying music genres with which they associate. CEO and founder Indie heads the team, which consists of people following extremely different–and frequently conflicting–tastes and attitudes. The company claims to have been given the YouTube original channel, which brings along with it a documentary crew filming them day to day. The second season picks up following the burning of the MyMusic building at the conclusion of the first season. After this fire, Indie has the MyMusic team returning to its roots, as well as focus more on social media and the MyMusic blog.
Release Date: 2012-04-15
Character: Nancy Spackman
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
The Legend of Korra
Avatar Korra, a headstrong, rebellious, feisty young woman who continually challenges and breaks with tradition, is on her quest to become a fully realized Avatar. In this story, the Avatar struggles to find balance within herself.
Release Date: 2012-04-14
Character: Korra (voice)
Episode Count: 52
Vote Count: 2148
TableTop
Wil Wheaton hosts tabletop games featuring three other celebrity players.
Release Date: 2012-04-02
Character: Self - Guest
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 4
Key & Peele
Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv. Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors, introduced by Key and Peele in front of a live studio audience.
Release Date: 2012-01-31
Character: Campaign Advisor
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 205
The Exes
A sitcom about three divorced men sharing an apartment across the hall from their female divorce attorney, who is also their landlord.
Release Date: 2011-11-30
Character: Lorna
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 52
Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
Third-grader Judy Moody sets out to have the most thrilling summer of her life.
Release Date: 2011-06-10
Character: Jill Moody (Mom)
Vote Count: 90
The Selling
For most people affected by the recent housing market crash, the impact was financial. Super nice real estate agent Richard Scarry has an additional burden: the paranormal.
Release Date: 2011-04-29
Character: Mary Best
Vote Count: 22
Best Player
After his parents decide to move to a retirement home in Florida, professional gamer Quincy “Q” Johnson (Jerry Trainor) must find a way to raise 175,000 dollars to buy his family home. After hearing about a tournament for the game “Black Hole” with a grand prize of 175,500 dollars, Quincy enters the tournament, only to be faced with a new challenge. An equally skilled gamer, named Chris Saunders “Prodigy” (Jeanette McCurdy), has become the one block in Quincy’s plan, defeating him at every turn. Quincy then teams-up with his friend Wendell (Amir Talai), to try and find ways to stop Chris from entering the tournament.
Release Date: 2011-03-12
Character: Tracy Saunders
Vote Count: 182
Hot in Cleveland
Three fabulous, eccentric, LA best friends of a certain age have their lives changed forever when their plane unexpectedly lands in Cleveland and they soon rediscover themselves in this new "promised land."
Release Date: 2010-06-16
Character: Ellen
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 118
Nic & Tristan Go Mega Dega
A day in the life of 10 year old skateboarding twins
Release Date: 2010-01-01
Character: Howard Fishtickle - Mom
Vote Count: 6
Warehouse 13
After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical objects. Together, Pete and Myka along with fellow agents Claudia, Steve Jinks and Warehouse caretaker Artie, must recover artifacts from around the globe before they can cause catastrophic damage.
Release Date: 2009-07-07
Character: Elise
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 695
Better Off Ted
Ted, a successful but morally conscious man, runs a research and development department at a morally questionable corporation, Veridian Technologies. No achievement is too far fetched and no invention too unorthodox for Veridian. Ted loves his seemingly perfect job; he loves his superhuman boss, Veronica, and colleagues Lem, Phil and Linda, but he's starting to take a closer look at the company's extremely questionable practices... especially when they try to cryogenically freeze one of Ted's scientists for testing purposes.
Release Date: 2009-03-18
Character: Female Lawyer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 204
Childrens Hospital
A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff.
Release Date: 2008-12-08
Character: Stacy
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 80
Drillbit Taylor
Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.
Release Date: 2008-02-04
Character: Attractive Woman Driver
Vote Count: 1048
Halfway Home
Halfway Home is an American comedy series that aired on Comedy Central in Spring 2007. On its official website, Halfway Home is described as an "improvised half-hour show featuring the daily exploits of five ex-cons living together in a residential rehab facility". After airing 10 episodes, on June 20, 2007 costar Regan Burns confirmed that the show had ended.
Release Date: 2007-03-14
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 2
Dante's Inferno
A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.
Release Date: 2007-01-18
Character: Teacher / Cleopatra / City of Dis Intercom / Ulysses' Usher (voice)
Vote Count: 25
Happy Hour
Happy Hour is a sitcom that debuted on Fox in the United States and on CTV in Canada on September 7, 2006. The show starred John Sloan as Henry Beckman, a young man rebuilding his life after losing his girlfriend, his job, and his apartment. The series was produced by married duo Jackie and Jeff Filgo of That '70s Show. Fox put the show on hiatus in September 2006, and officially canceled it the following May. Thirteen episodes of Happy Hour were made, of which four have aired and nine remain unaired.
Release Date: 2006-09-07
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Psych
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
Release Date: 2006-07-07
Character: Mindy Howland
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 861
What About Brian
Serial monogamist Brian O'Hara hits his mid-30s and suddenly realizes he's the last bachelor standing in his circle of friends. Not averse to the happily ever after his friends have achieved, Brian wonders whether he'll ever find Mrs. Right. The fact that he's in love with his best friend's girlfriend doesn't help his chances.
Release Date: 2006-04-16
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 17
Free Ride
Free Ride is a Fox partially improvised sitcom starring Josh Dean as "Nate Stahlings", a recent college graduate re-adjusting to life at home with his parents in Johnson City, Missouri. The pilot episode aired on March 1, 2006. Fox canceled the series after just 6 episodes.
Release Date: 2006-03-01
Character: Megan
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Love, Inc.
The energetic staff of LOVE, INC. takes pride in their success as full-service dating consultants. Leading the flourishing team is owner and founder of LOVE, INC., Clea. After her marriage of nine years falls apart, she now finds herself thrust into the dating world once again. Denise Johnson, an energetic, pragmatic, young woman who helps Clea make the company a success, is skilled at helping her clients find their seemingly unattainable soulmates, yet struggles with her inability to find true love. Making the hip busy offices run smoothly is Francine, who in addition to being a excellent wingwoman, has a great sense of fashion style and encourages her clients to trust it. Rounding out the staff is Viviana, a quick-witted and sharp tongued receptionist, and Barry, a wingman whose quirky ways and comments always stun everyone.
Release Date: 2005-09-22
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
How I Met Your Mother
A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
Release Date: 2005-09-19
Character: Stacey
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 5237
Bones
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
Release Date: 2005-09-13
Character: Maureen Perot
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3273
Back to Norm
TV pilot for a sketch comedy show starring Norm MacDonald
Release Date: 2005-05-29
Vote Count: 1
Catwoman
Liquidated after discovering a corporate conspiracy, mild-mannered graphic artist Patience Phillips washes up on an island, where she's resurrected and endowed with the prowess of a cat — and she's eager to use her new skills... as a vigilante. Before you can say "cat and mouse", handsome gumshoe Tom Lone is on her tail, fascinated by both of her personas.
Release Date: 2004-07-22
Character: Party Girl
Vote Count: 3409
Entourage
Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Release Date: 2004-07-18
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 569
Crossballs: The Debate Show
Crossballs: The Debate Show is a Comedy Central television show which poked fun at cable news networks' political debate shows, especially CNN's Crossfire and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. In each episode, comedians posing as experts on a particular subject would debate two real commentators. The true experts were unaware that the show was a sham. Topics ranged from reality television to religion to violence in video games. It debuted on July 6, 2004 and ran for eight weeks. It aired Tuesday-Friday at 7:30 p.m. ET. The twenty-third and final episode aired on August 24, 2004. Show number 24 was taped but never aired, after one of the unsuspecting guests, James March, threatened to sue Comedy Central.
Release Date: 2004-07-06
Episode Count: 24
Vote Count: 1