With one of his most recent stunts, the comedic actor interviewed the President for a Funny or Die skit.
(Photo by Mike Theiler-Pool/Getty Images)Helping fine-tune his writing skills, Galifianakis served as a writer on Saturday Night Live in 1997—although it was only for two weeks.
(Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)While it’s unclear as to how long he had enjoyed films until then, Zach has said that his first movie date was in 1987 to see the movie “Eddie Murphy Raw.”
(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)With one of the funnier reasons for someone to join MySpace, Zach has said he supposedly joined the network after hearing that a 16 year old from Alaska was using his image to pick up girls.
(Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)The funnyman was relatively unknown until his friends Fiona Apple and Kanye West helped him out.
Zach first lip-synched to an Apple song in her video for “Not About Love,” and then went viral when West chose to film the hit, “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” on the actor’s farm in North Carolina.
(Photo by Chad Buchanan/Getty Images)Although his character as Alan in “The Hangover” was his breakout role, he actually banned his mom from going to see any of the following films after she wasn’t too fond with his performance in the first film.
(Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)Knowing just how important collaborating with other writers can be to succeed, Galifianakis hopes to one day turn his 60-acre fame in North Carolina into a retreat for writers to work from.
(Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images)Owning a cat isn’t exactly the craziest facts about the actor, but finding out that his cat, Mr. Stevenson, was named after singer Cat Stevens is probably a bit interesting.
(Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)After nearly completing his collegiate career, Galifianakis failed his last class by just one point, prompting him to move to New York City and get his start in comedy by performing in the back of hamburger joints.
(Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)While still hosting his own TV show, Galifianakis actually interviewed future The Hangover co-star Bradley Cooper as one of his last guests—seven years before the two filmed the movie together.
(Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)Although the actor actually has a brother and sister, he has been known to appear on-stage with his “twin brother,” Seth.
In actuality, it was just himself dressed in disguise and enhancing his accent.
(Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The New Yorker)Wondering why Zach is normally never clean shaven? It’s because he treats his beard as if it’s a human being, giving it the name Shelly.
(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)While it may seem like forever ago, the actor actually got his start on the former TV show, Boston Common in 1996.
He later went on to have small parts on other shows before hosting his own, purposely awkward, talk show in 2002.
(Photo by Larry French/Getty Images)Playing a North Carolina Congressman in the film “The Campaign” should have been easy for Galifianakis, as his Uncle Nick was exactly that, serving from 1967-1973.
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