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Janeane Garofalo's performance at AltCom09 last Friday was easily the highlight of the evening. While there had been concern that her performance would be interrupted by conservative "teabaggers", a fearless Garofalo jumped into the audience at her first opportunity which delighted the crowd and set the tone for her set (see the video after the jump for excerpts). As a fan of her character on "24", Janis Gold, her reading of dialogue from the show was particularly funny.

The Alternative Comedy Fest 2009 concludes tonight as The Onion visits Somerville with what’s sure to be a hilarious set of fake news, likely with eerie relevance to reality. On Friday night, we caught the early show with Leo Allen, Jamie Kilstein, and (squee!) Janeane Garofalo. Read our thoughts on these folks below and after the jump. You can also check out our interviews with Rob Riggle and Eugene Mirman, who performed the late show (too close to this totally lame Bostonist's bedtime) on Friday.

In our post on this week's AltCom in Somerville, which starts tonight at the Somerville Theatre, we did note that there would be "many more" performers than we listed.