Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Hangover

Since first observing Galifianakis's exotic Comedy Central Presents special seven years ago I have sometimes felt like a naturalist encamped for weeks in my hide, peering through the brush hoping for a glimpse, a bit of photographic evidence of this rare beast to take back to the world and say "Here! Here is this comedian that so maddens and fevers me! See his bearded visage and tremble with hideous laughter! For in his crinkled and sodden eyes your so-called comedy is a joke."

And sometimes Zach will fleet across the glen in a dazzling display of jiggling plumage, but alas my shutter is too slow, capturing only those puzzling and too easily dismissed encounters wherein Zach instead shuffles into view, sniffs his anus, and absently wanders off.

Until this day when, lo and behold! Zacharius has paused in the cineplex to pirouette with queer magnificence. Perhaps, now that you have applauded his dance to the obscene tune of $150 million (more than double the domestic gross of Old School), you can be persuaded to take in

1) his original Comedy Central Presents special,
2) the Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion DVD (his finest hour — rent it for the solid-gold extra features),
3) The Comedians of Comedy: The Movie (stream it on Netflix),
4) the five-part Between Two Ferns interviews,
5) the three-part Absolut Zach spots, and
6) every other clip of him you can find on the internet anywhere. Funnyordie.com has a bunch.


Fun fact! Halley's Comet will be back in 2061, as every Clarke fan knows.

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