Zachary Galifianakis
Zachary Knight Galifianakis Greek
pronunciation (born October 1, 1969): American comedian, musician, comedian and
writer. He appeared on the Comedy Central Presents special and hosted his own
show Late World with Zach on VH1. Galifianakis has appeared in movies including
The Hangover trilogy (2009-2013), Due Date (2010) and The Campaign (2012). He
was also in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (2014) as well as
Masterminds (2016). He also voiced characters in animated films like Puss in
Boots (2011), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Missing Link (2019), and Ron's Gone
Missing (2021). Galifianakis is currently hosting the Funny or Die website talk
show Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis. He was also a part of FX's show
Baskets. In the year 2017 the show was nominated for win the Primetime Emmy
Award in Outstanding Lead Actor for a Comedy Series. Zachary Knight
Galifianakis, a North Carolina native, was born October 1, 1969 in Wilkesboro.
He is the father of Mary Frances (nee Cashion) and Harry Galifianakis, a
heating oil dealer. His mother is English and Scottish-Irish. his paternal
grandparents come from Crete. He was baptized in his father's Greek Orthodox
faith. He has a younger sister named Merritt as well as an elder brother, Greg.
The cousin Nick Galifianakis is a Washington Post cartoonist and his uncle Nick
Galifianakis is also a politician. Galifianakis was educated at Wilkes Central
High School and then went on to North Carolina State University where the
school of communications was where he studied. He was an operator for a radio
at a public access station while at college. He was a teacher of dance in the
year 1991 when he first met Mary J. Blige. After his television debut Boston
Common, Galifianakis joined Saturday Night Live for two weeks. Galifianakis has
stated that he worked for Saturday Night Live for two weeks. Britney Spears
hosted on one of those weeks. Created a sketch. Will Ferrell was to play a
bodyguard on her belly button, and we were going reduce Will down so that she could
fit in an abdominal button. ...she was staring at me as I explained it to her.
And then she finally goes 'Yeah that's funny.'" Galifianakis was in the
film Out Cold and also had roles in Corky Romano, Below, Bubble Boy and
Heartbreakers.
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