Zach Galifianakis: he has a beard (talk about "The Hangover" here)

It says so here and so it must be true. (Full beard discussion on page five.)

i read this article

i enjoy the comedic stylings of this gentleman

i watched one of the vodka ads described in that article and it was funn

“I was doing a bit about how much I hate celebrity egos, and that seemed to resonate with Kanye West, for some reason,” said Galifianakis, with a barely perceptible grin. “He asked me to do a video for him, and I said yes, with one condition: I just go off by myself and shoot it, and he doesn’t get to look at it until it’s done.” To everyone’s surprise, West agreed. The resulting video, in which Galifianakis and the indie-folk icon Will Oldham drive a tractor around a cornfield while lip-synching West’s hit single “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” has been viewed nearly half a million times. “I wasn’t sure what Kanye would think of it, to be honest,” Galifianakis said. “But his response was perfect, considering how we’d first met. He said it was the best video he’d ever made.”

i read this article

― ice cr?m, Friday, May 29, 2009 12:55 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i enjoy the comedic stylings of this gentleman

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Friday, May 29, 2009 12:56 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

I was hoping you were referring to jho cuz I can't stand this zach dude

srsly I experience irrational anger

maybe I should talk to somebody about this

maybe I just need a hug

i have a beard

what's her name

katie holmes

I like him as an actor more than as a comedian.

Guy's awesome. Love the Tim & Eric vodka commercials.. Also funny as THE SNUGGLER on T&E: http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c39216cdd4f10116d07bd6af0120

Also funny "interview" with Michael Showalter:

fucking love this guy

i remember watching the zach galifinakis show on vh1 in high school and just having tears streaming down my face

i warmed to him through tim and eric; initially irrationally annoyed.
Tairy Green / The Snuggler / Gravy Robber = slow burner

yeah his VH1 show was so awesome in that way that shows that you know are doomed to a swift cancellation give you a giddy "i can't believe they're still getting away with this" kind of thrill. i think he's pretty hit or miss as a comic, though -- i rented the "live at the purple onion" DVD and was kind of appalled at how dull and deeply unfunny it was.

liked him a lot as the superstitious submarine crewman in the film 'below'

tbh I've only seen his standup which struck me as blowhard hipster dreck, sounds like he's better in acting mode?

nyt article didn't make the waters look any more inviting tho

what is "blowhard hipster dreck" pray tell

“Zach has a darkness,” Silverman agrees. “But at the same time he’s mostly silly. We were standing backstage at a club in L.A., U.C.B., that shares a hallway with a restaurant called Birds. On the door that goes into the restaurant, it says ‘Birds employees only,’ and Zach just took his pen and put a comma after ‘Birds,’ so it said, ‘Birds, employees only,’ as if they were telling birds that they are not allowed through this door. He sees every situation as an opportunity.”

yes, an opportunity to be annoying

Sarah Silverman's telling of that story is kind of what's annoying.

she so didn't get the joke. the comma meant "birds AND employees only".

That's what I thought it meant too!

blowhard hipster dreck = smug drama majors who wear scarves and talk loud at parties

(feel free to attack my straw man with rakes and knives)

blowhard hipster dreck is like 'the amazing racist', zach is pretty good imo

if he wanted to direct his message towards the birds, he should have used a colon

Birds: Employees Only

hipsters are generally not blowhards - why because its not cool to talk too much. drama majors on the other hand do not care abt being cool and are for that reason and others generally not hipsters.

"smug drama majors who wear scarves and talk loud at parties"

that's kind of not how i'd peg this dude at all.

god, the tone of this article is so credulous and hyperbolic i almost wish i didn't think he was funny.

hipsters are anything but blowhards typically yes

god, the tone of this article is so credulous and hyperbolic

^^^^ this

E3 why would you post the word hipster in an nyt article thread?

because my comedy is like performance art

sorry guyz I didn't wake up this morning planning to troll a zach galifianakis thread it just kind of happened

you can go back to giving him props now and I will resolve to give him another chance

you love beards

yeah, this article is pretty embarrassing and will not make you want to like the guy. not his fault though. he's not the one proclaiming himself a "performance artist".

<3 katie holmes

xp

performance, artist

nah, i would say the subject is at least partly responsible for my feelings about the article:

“College kids these days have an appreciation for randomness — just completely bizarre stuff,” Galifianakis told me, “and they didn’t get that by going to Uncle Chuckle’s Comedy Hut.”

those two statements i have to say are pretty much undeniably true

It's not that I think he's lying or misunderstanding what he's talking about.

yeah well hearing abt why comedians do what they do is never pleasing - have you ever seen the movie the aristocrats - its the worst

i dunno -- i actually kinda enjoy watching old school comics talk about their craft in a laid back way, the way they get philosophical or mechanical about humor sometimes is really insightful, even if it's kind of pretentious or disillusioning. what Galifianakis and the writer are putting down in that article is the same "this ain't your daddy's standup" crap that alt-comedy's been peddling for what 15 years at the bare minimum? it's like indie rock reviews that still harp about major labels corrupting music or something.

who cares. it's funny.

xp the difference is that most "mainstream" standup is awful.

thing is, what comes across as just a dude talking about shit in a non-douchey manner IRL can be written to make him seem like a smug douche on the page, which is why interviews should sometimes be taken with a grain of salt

some dude going to Uncle Chuckle’s Comedy Hut tonite iirc

xp yah in general you may want to give the interview subject the benefit of the doubt in a nyt piece.

ass&titties?

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ass & titties.

looking forward to no. 3, The Hangovererer.

Anybody seen 3? Reviews are slaughtering it

haven't seen enough "how to get rid of a hangover" puns this time around

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATKP6Dj9X8

...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATKP6Dj9X8

URL says it all:

http://www.eonline.com/news/422190/the-hangover-3-reviews-are-in-critics-are-drunk-with-scorn-for-sequel

It can't be THAT terrible, can it?

"as a 'very special' ode to Alan's journey to responsibility, it's a miscalculation of what fans want from a series featuring a smoking monkey"

i liked it. way better than 2. lolling at everyone (audience/critics) complaining it was 'so predictable'....wow, big surprise. it is what it is and it is as good as it is supposed to be

"I got a dark side. There's a demon in me."
"It's true. He has semen in him."

So far this is ok, I'm 20 minutes in

"The mcrib is back"

lol "Hurt" karaoke

"I don't feed them anything except cocaine. And chicken"

Yes, critics, this is basically a humorless action movie but Alan Z kills it and, you know, it's got a DANZIG song in it

2>1>3

One or two chuckles in the Obama episode of Between 2 Ferns, but every "Seriously?" is too much "Seriously?"

It's fairly funny, I think it could be a lot shorter though.

Eh, this was clearly the show in PSA mode. The yucks were incidental.

Was expecting it to be even more PSAy, actually. Not saying it wasn't tamer than the other Ferns, but looking Barack Obama in the eye and asking, "What's it like being the last black president?" was a little edgier than I expected.

I can think of some edgy questions

There's a good drone gag in there for you.

would they be funny edgy questions.

they'd be secondhand, you can count on that

I can't come up with anything as brilliant as original as yours obv

*projectile diarrhea*

hey you're stealing my bit

the birth certificate schtick is a little tired

tell it to trump

funny or die #1 referrer to healthcare.gov right now

the birth certificate schtick is a little tired

idk I'm never going to be tired of the prez just goin "hey you dudes who actually believe this birth certificate shit, how's it feel when I just make jokes about your bullshit"

Bill-Maher-style birth certificate schtick is tired. I wasn't bothered by it here.

I'm glad that Galifianakis' audience is getting the care they obviously need

lool at the ppl in my FB timeline who think this was unscripted

Move over pajama boy the GOP has a new hipster enemy number 1

Do Clinton next, Zach! Please!

This is the kind of thing a pol will only try when no longer a candidate

what do we think of Baskets?

show really hit its stride

I think it's kind of brilliant

yeah Louie Anderson is amazing. and the ZG twin brother character is excellently deployed here.

hes in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_Fever

Cast

Alicia Vikander as Sophia
Dane DeHaan as Jan Van Loos
Zach Galifianakis
Judi Dench as The Abbess of St. Ursula
Christoph Waltz as Cornelis Sandvoort
Jack O'Connell as William
Holliday Grainger as Maria
Matthew Morrison as Mattheus
Cara Delevingne as Henrietta
Tom Hollander as Dr. Sorgh
Cressida Bonas as Mrs. Steen
Kevin McKidd as Johan De Bye
David Harewood as Prater

I assume that means he's just playing himself in this period piece. I welcome that.

whoah, pretty awesome that Louie Anderson won an Emmy for Baskets

totally deserved

yea that surprised me to see also, tho im happy for him

Louie was incredible in that

goddamn Louie is so good. Denver episode was a heartbreaker