‘The Simpsons’ Makes Zach Galifianakis Proud to Be An American
Are you one of those fans who believes his new movie The Beanie Bubble. (NYT confirms that this phone conversation was in the can before the SAG strike.) “There’s not many shows like that. Shows like The Simpsons, and the fact that Prince was from America, that just makes me proud to be an American.”
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Galifianakis got to express his patriotism in Season 25 when he voiced Luca$ (pronounced Luca-dollar) Bortner, an overweight kid who longs to become a competitive eater. Lisa momentarily finds herself attracted to Luca$ before realizing “He’s just Ralph with a dream.”
The New York Times conversation with Galifianakis rambles on from there, hopping from topic to topic like an ill-prepared Between Two Ferns host who dropped his index cards before the interview. Here are a few more of Galifianakis’ comedy-adjacent observations:
- His comedy heroes were his cousins. “The way (my family) communicates is through humor,” he says. “It’s as basic as: I enjoyed the sound of people laughing.” That meant Galifianakis’s early comedy training involved skits at family reunions and dres his sister as the Ayatollah Khomeini.
- He writes jokes on a tractor. “I’ve had a tractor for a number of years. It’s where I do most of my thinking about standup — specifically joke-writing. It lets me sit there and numb out and think about jokes I’ve done and try to add to them.”
- His biggest problem with social media is that it’s criminally boring. “I’ll hear people say: You should see what I just tweeted out. As soon as I hear ‘Twitter,’ my face glazes over. For somebody like me, I have to observe. I need to see the small spaces in life as an actor, as someone that tries to make people laugh. I’m not going to get that from Twitter. But, look: I’m 53. I’m old. I’m out of the loop. Nobody should listen to me.”
