I don’t say this to make fun of the lady. She just has an amazingly large head. It’s a fact of nature and I was surprised.

I saw her last weekend when I went to a comedic reenactment of The Hills at Cobb’s Comedy Club, part of SF Sketchfest. I have never been to a comedy club before. I liked it, despite the slight cheesiness of the atmosphere. This comedy club makes you share tables with other people and order two drinks. They were very insistent on the two drinks point! There were lots of men with shoulder-length swirly hair and women in plunging, badly sewn tops.

The show was an ensemble cast that included Garofalo; Tom Kenny, the voice of Sponge Bob; Rod Riggle, who was on The Daily Show; and Rachel Harris, who is in those commercials about 100-calorie snack food. The joke was to read the script of The Hills verbatim and let its banality speak for itself. It’s a simple concept but works well. While the comedians were mostly doing valley girl imitations, if you’ve seen The Hills, you could definitely pick up on the individual characters. Harris did the best job as Heidi. Garofalo had the toughest job because Lauren Conrad has the personality of a stick, which may be why Garofalo resorted to twirling her hair a lot. Overall the show was funny and worth seeing. Now I want to see Celebrity Autobiography.

But getting back to Garofalo’s head: She is a tiny woman. She’s maybe 5’1”. Her head is big for her size, but she also has terrific bone structure and is quite lovely. Watching her on stage, I started wondering if having a bigger head would help you in Hollywood. After all, there’s more real estate for the camera to pan in on. Nathanael West described celebrity heads as all the features crowding in on the front of the face, but that was in the 1930s. Now features have to be huge and exaggerated, like a cartoon character. Having a big head would help, I think. I wonder if anyone has ever done a scientific study on the size of celebrity heads. There’s a possible thesis idea for you PhD candidates out there.