Breaking: Shaggy, Shambling Man-Child Believes Political Expression is "Creepy"

I wish I could call Zak Galifanakis a no-talent, but he's not. He's a funny guy.

But wise he is not. He's a goof, the sort of bumbling bohemian who is able to feed himself only because he's got one high-paying skill, and remains childlike in his ignorance about how other people make their rent. Or how the Magic Wires put Magic Beams in his lightbulbs.

There is always a culture clash between those who understand how productive industry actually works and those who gape at it like savages, believing it to be some kind of Heap Big White Man Magic. And where there is Magic, there are Sorcerors and Demons; for most people, particularly those of the primitive mindset, the large cloud of Unknowns is filled in by their imaginations with malice, conspiracy, and deviltry.

Zak Galifanakis will remain deeply suspicious of how the White Sorcerors called the Koch Brothers make their money; he will never question why he himself is being paid around $10 million per movie (and a shoot is about two months long, so that's $10 million for 60 days' work -- if that).

He understands his own good fortune -- "I'm funny, so of course I get paid more in two months than 95% of Americans and 99.9% of the world will be paid in a long lifetime" -- but not that of others. Others' fortune -- the non-bohemian types, those of the alien tribe -- must be the work of sorcery.

But now with Galifianakis bad-mouthing the conservative duo off screen, the Koch brothers are reminding people that he's just an actor.
In the comedy, actors Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow play the Motch brothers, who are financially backing the implausible candidate portrayed by Galifianakis. In an interview with the New York Daily News on Monday, Galifianakis said it's "pretty obvious" the characters are based on Charles and David Koch.
"I disagree with everything they do. They are creepy and there is no way around that. It's not freedom what they are doing," Galifianakis said when asked about the Koch brothers.

What the Koch brothers are doing isn't "freedom." Freedom will exist when laws are passed to restrain the Koch brothers from doing what they choose to do.

Then, see, that will be freedom. Freedom, properly understood, is the fruit of government coercion, you must understand. If a man chooses to act or believe in a way that is contrary to the teachings of Barack Obama (or his lesser, stonier disciple Zak Galifanakis), then that man is not truly free.

He will be free when he is forced to act or believe in the proper fashion. Only then, only by action of the state, only by liberation through bondage, will be freed from his sins and ensorcellments.

Posted by: Ace at 05:08 PM

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1
toe cleavage

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 07, 2012 05:12 PM (9Q7Nu)

2 Hollywood is full of Zaks. Believers in a form of cargo cult. Not stewards of a real culture that creates, just one going through routines that have given it money in the past.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 07, 2012 05:12 PM (HlJeY)

3 Punitive taxation of those in Hollywood is sounding better and better.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 07, 2012 05:12 PM (HrBwt)

4
This movie sounds retarded.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 07, 2012 05:13 PM (9Q7Nu)

5 He was funny in The Hangover as Harry Reid, though.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 07, 2012 05:14 PM (UOM48)

6 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:14 PM (8y9MW)

7 Comments section at CBS website might be full of even more stupid than NYT, WaPo, and Salon.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 07, 2012 05:14 PM (eoedh)

8 I don't think he's remotely funny.

Posted by: slatz at August 07, 2012 05:14 PM (mE0Rl)

9 Freedom will exist when laws are passed to restrain the Koch brothers from doing what they choose to do.

That phrase reminds me of some signs that used to be posted over rehabilitation centers in Poland.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 07, 2012 05:14 PM (HrBwt)

10 Is he any relation to Zach Galafinakis, who stars in that new movie with Will Ferrell?

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at August 07, 2012 05:14 PM (a5ljo)

11 Zach must not look in the mirror much, he is creepy looking.

Posted by: madamex at August 07, 2012 05:14 PM (e9LVX)

12
"I disagree with everything they do."

I have to wonder if Galifinakis can accurately say what the Kochs do.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 07, 2012 05:15 PM (9Q7Nu)

13 Zak Galifanakis needs to spend some time with Sarah Palin's slutty shoes, that oughta restore his manhood.

Posted by: kallisto at August 07, 2012 05:16 PM (jm/9g)

14 "I disagree with everything they do. They are creepy and there is no way around that. It's not freedom what they are doing"

Translation: I don't really know anything about them or what they do but my friends said they were bad.

This dude is barely funny, why is is braindead statement getting so much attention?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 05:16 PM (r4wIV)

15 >>> Is he any relation to Zach Galafinakis, who stars in that new movie with Will Ferrell?

you say tomato, I say tomito.

The movie they're promoting looks awful. It looks like something my dick shit all over my balls (and I don't even know what that is).

Posted by: ace at August 07, 2012 05:16 PM (fxHyG)

16 This movie sounds retarded.

I see what you did there.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:16 PM (8y9MW)

17 Shut up and act die.

Posted by: angler at August 07, 2012 05:16 PM (SwjAj)

18
What's the difference between what the Koch brothers "do" and what Rob Meathead Reiner does or what Harvey Weinstein does for their political pals?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 07, 2012 05:16 PM (9Q7Nu)

19 ensorcellments

*****

Is this -a thing?

Posted by: tasker at August 07, 2012 05:16 PM (r2PLg)

20
Aristotle, motherfucker!
Do you read it!?

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2012 05:16 PM (JFtSj)

21 Is Will Ferrell still un-funny?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 07, 2012 05:16 PM (UOM48)

22 see libs would be more honest if they just said it's not the kind of freedom they LIKE, cuz evil corrupt Republicans blahblahblah. but to try and fail to make their opinions more palatable they have to redefine words

Posted by: JDP at August 07, 2012 05:16 PM (60GaT)

23 In the end, all of leftism goes back to Rousseau, and he said that some people will have to be forced to be free. From there to Robespierre is a small step.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at August 07, 2012 05:16 PM (RD7QR)

24 Damn strike-out no worky.

Posted by: angler at August 07, 2012 05:16 PM (SwjAj)

25 He will be free when he is forced to act or believe in the proper fashion.

�There is one path to freedom. Its milestones are:�Obedience,
honesty, cleanliness, sobriety, diligence, orderliness, sacrifice,
truthfulness, love of the fatherland.��

http://ww2panorama.org/panoramas/dachau

Posted by: Kinder, Gentler HeatherRadish� at August 07, 2012 05:17 PM (/kI1Q)

26 He should stick to jackin off monkeys.

Posted by: c6 dave at August 07, 2012 05:17 PM (I08eI)

27 Only the fact that there's enough people who will show up to a theater to watch somebody doing something on the screen keeps Zach's coke dealer happy

Posted by: kbdabear at August 07, 2012 05:17 PM (Y7XKa)

28

Uh.....is this the guy in that dreadful new movie with Will Farell?
It's about a....'Campaign', or something.

Posted by: wheatie at August 07, 2012 05:17 PM (mtRB0)

29 Vashta Nerada, ja.

Or from the movie Brazil - Suspicion Breeds Confidence.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 07, 2012 05:17 PM (HlJeY)

30 Yet another reason I don't go to movies. Why would I want to support these idiots with my money?

Posted by: USA at August 07, 2012 05:17 PM (6Cjut)

31 "What's the difference between what the Koch brothers "do" and what Rob
Meathead Reiner does or what Harvey Weinstein does for their political
pals?"

they're the Good Rich people, the selfless Artists. the selfish Kochtopus however is making the GOP slaves to their corporationy corporations

Posted by: JDP at August 07, 2012 05:18 PM (60GaT)

32 Heh. Gutfeld's daily rant is on Obama's college transcripts.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 07, 2012 05:18 PM (UOM48)

33 He will be free when he is forced to act or believe in the proper fashion.

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you
shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out
of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you
push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never
allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

Posted by: Kinder, Gentler HeatherRadish� at August 07, 2012 05:18 PM (/kI1Q)

34 Only then, only by action of the state, only by liberation through bondage, will be freed from his sins and ensorcellments.

*********

I think you read one too many pages of-

50 Shades of Gray.

(I know you thought it was old lady porn--but...)

Posted by: tasker at August 07, 2012 05:18 PM (r2PLg)

35 >>>Is this -a thing?

yup. I even spellchecked it.

Posted by: ace at August 07, 2012 05:18 PM (fxHyG)

36 It's the Cargo-pants cult, or some-such.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2012 05:18 PM (pVicn)

37 Freedom to Zach is buying coke or sleeping with 15 year olds without being hassled by the man

Posted by: kbdabear at August 07, 2012 05:19 PM (Y7XKa)

38 I've never liked this prick in anything, ever.

Will Ferrell was at least funny up to Anchorman. Since then, he's been awful.

But this guy? No . . . useless.

Posted by: The Q at August 07, 2012 05:19 PM (B/yDO)

39
if Zack Galifinakis and an ewok had a son...

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 07, 2012 05:20 PM (9Q7Nu)

40 I have to say that too many, those of us here included, give far too much importance to what comedians and supposed actors say. There are very few occupations that have lower standards of intelligence.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 07, 2012 05:20 PM (HrBwt)

41
110% Tax Rate for Hollywood?.

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2012 05:20 PM (JFtSj)

42

Heh.
I think Galifanakis spells his name...'Zach'.
Instead of...'Zak'....like a yak.

Posted by: wheatie at August 07, 2012 05:20 PM (mtRB0)

43 I have never seen a Zak Galifanakis movie. I expect that streak to continue indefinitely

Posted by: kbdabear at August 07, 2012 05:20 PM (Y7XKa)

44 I still don't know who or what the Koch brothers are. I get that they're rich, and they support conservatives/Republicans, but other than that I know nothing about them.

I always assumed they were just the names people had to use to counter the Soros enterprise, which of course is a real conspiracy, with real motives that go against everything this country stands for.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2012 05:20 PM (TOk1P)

45
Son of a b*tch stole my act.

Posted by: Kramer at August 07, 2012 05:21 PM (UuLBC)

46

So, the truth will set us free. I always thought work sets us free (which actually sounds more convincing in the original German).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2012 05:21 PM (pVicn)

47 Boycotting Hollywood since 2000 and still going strong.

Posted by: ErikW at August 07, 2012 05:21 PM (DBszw)

48 Rousseau and his fabled 'noble savage.' Looks like he got his wish with the likes of Zach. Now real primitves like the Maori would have Rousseau for lunch.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 07, 2012 05:21 PM (HlJeY)

49
oh, and John Lithgow and Dan Akroyd are now dead to me, too

the Motch brothers

how original

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 07, 2012 05:21 PM (9Q7Nu)

50 I don't find Zack Whatthefuckever funny in the slightest. I also thought The Hangover was mediocre at best.

Posted by: Ms Choksondik at August 07, 2012 05:21 PM (YOZSv)

51 What are these idiots but a bunch of millionaire 1%ers making a propaganda film about those they don't like? What the hell makes them different from their twisted view of the Kochs, other than the Kochs actually, you know, employing large numbers of people?

Posted by: nickless at August 07, 2012 05:21 PM (MMC8r)

52 The Zach Gargle-afikas (that's his name, right?) of the world make my knuckles itch.

And I disagree, ace, that he dislikes the Kochs because he doesn't understand what they do. Certainly he doesn't understand what they do, or how they make money. Certainly he doesn't understand actual industry and commerce.

But he hates the Kochs (and successful businessmen in general) because he knows, deep down, that they got where they are by hard work, and mastering something he could never hope to master (not to say "math," though probably that, too). He hates them because they represent a world he despises and fears. He hates them because they don't require the approval of him and those like him to be happy in their own lives.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:21 PM (8y9MW)

53 Why do we act shocked when actors turn out to be infantile dickheads with no grasp on reality?

Posted by: The Drizzle at August 07, 2012 05:21 PM (ysCLj)

54 Never heard of this guy. Wasn't he on the Hollywood Squares or something?

Posted by: Watson at August 07, 2012 05:21 PM (kDLl+)

55
41
110% Tax Rate for Hollywood?.

Works for me.
They're rich....so they must be 'evil'.
Barky tells us this.

Posted by: wheatie at August 07, 2012 05:22 PM (mtRB0)

56 So, there's like a big cauldron of stupid bubbling somewhere in LA and SAG requires celebrities to come out and drink from it and repeat it.

See also, on Conan last night, one of the hobbits, Monigan, tried to make a bon mot regarding chick fil A, their disgusting sandwiches and hatred...get it? tee hee.

so stupid.

Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at August 07, 2012 05:22 PM (QxSug)

57 The part of the brain that is overdeveloped in actors and allows them to mimic others and to pretend to be something alien to their true nature is developed at the expense of critical thinking faculties and logic centers in the brain.

Forgive them, for they know not what they blather.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 07, 2012 05:22 PM (nEUpB)

58 We're moving forward through time again.

Posted by: toby928� at August 07, 2012 05:23 PM (evdj2)

59

If Janeane Garofalo married Zach Galafinakis, she'd be Joe Garagiola.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2012 05:23 PM (pVicn)

60 my point being, sure sure, their money isn't really earned per se, but neither are their viewpoints. They get told things and then repeat it wrt politics. Oh, like he's an expert on tea party or anything else outside of doing coke.

Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at August 07, 2012 05:23 PM (QxSug)

61 Will Ferrell did make one interesting comment when a guy from the Daily Caller was asking him questions. He responded, "Um, we're actors." As in, why would you expect us to have the slightest clue about anything?

Posted by: epobirs at August 07, 2012 05:23 PM (kcfmt)

62 Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2012 05:20 PM (TOk1P)
--
Primarily refineries, so not only are they evil capitalists, they are in the most evil capitalist industry of all.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 07, 2012 05:23 PM (HrBwt)

63 Comedy?

You didn't make that!

Posted by: nickless at August 07, 2012 05:24 PM (MMC8r)

64 I've never heard of this douche and my give-a-fuck meter hasn't moved in years regarding what some hollywood dick has to say about politics.

Posted by: robtr at August 07, 2012 05:24 PM (MtwBb)

65 So, the truth will set us free.

You'll never hear a progg say that, because Jesus said it first.

Posted by: Kinder, Gentler HeatherRadish� at August 07, 2012 05:24 PM (/kI1Q)

66
let's make a move about some con artist, we'll call him Farack

And we'll have an angry old mean rich guy in it and we'll call him Whoros

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 07, 2012 05:24 PM (9Q7Nu)

67 I'm in favor of a 110% tax rate for Hollywood, except for conservative NYC-based screenwriters. Our rate should be about .01%

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2012 05:24 PM (pVicn)

68 ensorcellments...

brb, checking teh Intarwebz...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 07, 2012 05:24 PM (d0Tfm)

69 Probably almost as funny as Ellen Barkin's latest portrayal of a "conservative" in the upcoming series "The New Normal". They have no idea what a conservative is.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at August 07, 2012 05:24 PM (UEEex)

70 Didn't he jump the shark a ways back?
I know Ferrell did.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 07, 2012 05:24 PM (Yk5zY)

71 If one of my Hamsters s fell out of my ass, it would look just like Zak Galifanakis.

Posted by: Bruce Vilanch at August 07, 2012 05:24 PM (JFtSj)

72 I can't help but think of how artists are portrayed in Team America: World Police.

"They get told things and then repeat it wrt politics. Oh, like he's an expert on tea party or anything else outside of doing coke."

Exactly, its like quoting a chimpanzee's random hand gestures as sign language and then criticizing it. Who gives a damn what he says about politics or anything else.

Get up on stage and amuse me, loser. Then shut your face and spend your money.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 05:24 PM (r4wIV)

73
"It's not freedom, what they are doing?"

What kind of a sentence is that? What the fuck is "doing freedom?"

Fucking dumpy-ass lackwit. Another fat, socially stunted rich fuck like Artie Lange who will be renting whores until the day his useless ass spikes up an overdose and another boil on the ass of America will be lanced.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 07, 2012 05:25 PM (A+odv)

74 I don't know why anyone take these actors seriously. It's not like emoting requires really high IQ points. I'm not seeing that it doesn't require talent, but that talent has absolutely nothing to do with having intelligence greater than that of household bugs. In fact the big stars are very disconnected from the real world. And I love how they rail against rich people, lol.

I guess when everyone is fawning over you, you tend to believe that you're capable of doing infinitely more than memorizing words and reciting them with great emotion.

Posted by: Chiquita d'afrique at August 07, 2012 05:25 PM (m95KA)

75 Punitive taxation of those in Hollywood is sounding better and better.

It's like you took Galifanakis' ignorance of irony and wrapped it in another shell of irony. Like a chalupa of irony.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 07, 2012 05:25 PM (+lsX1)

76
Remember, at the start, we were told the Tea Party wasn't worthy of being news at all. Look at how it's gotten to them.

Posted by: Z Ryan at August 07, 2012 05:25 PM (tsC/8)

77 Oh great. Another big storm. Later.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 07, 2012 05:25 PM (UOM48)

78 Will Ferrell did make one interesting comment when a guy from the Daily
Caller was asking him questions. He responded, "Um, we're actors." As
in, why would you expect us to have the slightest clue about anything?

Will Ferrell is a (not funny) liberal douche. But at least he realizes that everyone is worthy of mockery.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:25 PM (8y9MW)

79 Galifawhatshisface looks like an OWS maggot. And that's on one of his good days.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 07, 2012 05:25 PM (pLTLS)

80 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2012 05:21 PM (pVicn)

In their perfect world we would see that saying again.

And the sad thing is that that they are so ignorant of history that they would think it's original.

Fuck 'em.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 07, 2012 05:25 PM (nEUpB)

81 Just another typical Hollywood leftard. They are a dime a dozen nowadays.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 07, 2012 05:25 PM (UljOc)

82 ensorcellments

I've had those. They are nasty.

Posted by: Ronster at August 07, 2012 05:25 PM (ArCUN)

83 ♫ They eat babies, they drink pee, they must be Koch, Koch, Koch ♫

Posted by: Zak Galifanakis at August 07, 2012 05:25 PM (evdj2)

84 Somebody should let these Hollywood knownothings know its not really a prerequsite to be a stupid fucking idiot to live there. Or is it?

Posted by: maddogg at August 07, 2012 05:26 PM (OlN4e)

85 In all seriousness. Who is

Zak Galifanakis. never heard of him.

But, an actor speaking without a script is an actor speaking without a brain.

Posted by: CUS at August 07, 2012 05:26 PM (84pE9)

86 didn't get this in time as new thread came up
for Allen

I need a link to something on that front that a) is fairly concise and b) not a conspiracy site. Anyone got one?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:10 PM (8y9MW)
============

They are all pretty much related to each other.

Burn Down the Suburbs? Not exactly, but Obama is already working to get rid of them.
from the NRO
http://tinyurl.com/cuu8lqz

Property Rights at Risk with Executive Order 13575
http://tinyurl.com/8lz5h75

OBAMA DONORS WITH SOROS TIES CONSIDER EMINENT DOMAIN POWER GRAB IN CALIF.
http://tinyurl.com/chevjzz

Posted by: Nothing is beneath them at August 07, 2012 05:26 PM (HOOye)

87 Zak Galifanakis is to films what the used dental floss on my desk is to films. I disagree with Ace, the man has no talent and he makes every film he is in close to unwatchable. I wouldn't care if he were a conservative even, I just can't stand the guy, he rates close to Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen on my "How the fuck is this guy getting paid to act?" list. At the same time in all three cases this guys play themselves in every single movie they have been in! At least you can say Jim Carey played Jim Carey playing Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon.

Posted by: Drew in MO at August 07, 2012 05:26 PM (nEo/i)

88 I never found Will Ferrell to be the slightest bit funny. Talk about creepy.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 07, 2012 05:26 PM (UljOc)

89 @ 61 regarding Ferrel.

Um, yeah, he snapped quickly in to line becoming a lead liberal in hollywood.

Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at August 07, 2012 05:26 PM (QxSug)

90 I've never heard of this douche and my give-a-fuck meter hasn't moved in years regarding what some hollywood dick has to say about politics.

And I'm fresh out of shits myself.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 07, 2012 05:27 PM (d0Tfm)

91 Like a chalupa of irony.

Oooh.

Posted by: Kinder, Gentler HeatherRadish� at August 07, 2012 05:27 PM (/kI1Q)

92 Remind me again - just how much does a "well-paid" actor make in a country like Russia or China?

Which country does Mr. G. think the US should be more like?

I'd be willing to donate the money that I won't be spending to see his movie into a fund that will pay for him to move to his dream country - with all ofthe attendant freedoms whichhe findsso lacking in this one - so that he can begin to live a life unencumbered by all ofusicky capitalists.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at August 07, 2012 05:27 PM (P6H+d)

93 Will Farrell's as funny as a gaping chest wound filled with lemon juice and salt.

Posted by: nickless at August 07, 2012 05:27 PM (MMC8r)

94
oh, and John Lithgow and Dan Akroyd are now dead to me, too Posted by: Soothsayer
Word.

Posted by: Z Ryan at August 07, 2012 05:27 PM (tsC/8)

95 62 -

Ok, they're eeeeeeeeeevil capitalist oil-mongers, but what do they do that gets the left all riled up. Donate money? Other than that, what?

Don't answer that until I get home from work (or google it myself).

Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2012 05:27 PM (TOk1P)

96 Nothing.. just google Agenda 21. Tells you all you need to know.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 07, 2012 05:27 PM (UljOc)

97 I believe we solved the Hollywood/Entertainers problem by taxing them all 95% didn't we?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2012 05:27 PM (05RcU)

98 Posted by: Nothing is beneath them at August 07, 2012 05:26 PM (HOOye)

Thank you.

If there's anything that's up my ally, it's talk about over-reaching government stealing liberty.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:28 PM (8y9MW)

99 Clint Eastwood did endorse Romney, so he must be a fucking RINO. Which makes him positively right wing out there.

Posted by: maddogg at August 07, 2012 05:28 PM (OlN4e)

100 "Will Ferrell is a (not funny) liberal douche. But at least he realizes that everyone is worthy of mockery."

Sure, I don't mind a leftist douche who is honest about themselves and doesn't try to lecture me. You can believe whatever you want, just don't think I give a crap.

Every time something like this comes up my brother reminds me how actors were the absolute bottom of the social totem pole. They were the wretched despised sweepings from the sewer that stuck on your shoe. Nobody admired them, nobody looked up to them, nobody thought they were anything but liars and whores.

Now people want to be an actor and worship them.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 05:28 PM (r4wIV)

101 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 07, 2012 05:25 PM (nEUpB)

Hey, dude. I also seem to recall another German saying on those gates. Something like "to each his own" which in that context (and the current one) is really sick.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2012 05:28 PM (pVicn)

102 35 >>>Is this -a thing?

yup. I even spellchecked it.
Posted by: ace at August 07, 2012 05:18 PM (fxHyG)

******

Ensorcellments

Sounds like something Nancy Pelosi whispered to you...

Posted by: tasker at August 07, 2012 05:29 PM (r2PLg)

103 Thanks for saving me $40 and two-plus hours, Zack.

I was seriously contemplating seeing you in this now-obviously-shitty movie.

Posted by: Truman North, iPhone scoundrel at August 07, 2012 05:29 PM (Tkzap)

104 93 Will Farrell's as funny as a gaping chest wound filled with lemon juice and salt.
Posted by: nickless at August 07, 2012 05:27 PM (MMC8r)

In Papua New Guinea, they call that drink "the David Rockefeller."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2012 05:29 PM (pVicn)

105 I have no idea who he is.

Should I care?

Even if I've seen him and the name's not familiar, they all sort of blend together in a sort of homogenized slush. A noisy and annoying slush.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at August 07, 2012 05:29 PM (Qxdfp)

106 When Califukifornia finally works its way back down the hog and runs outta the last shit encrusted tit to suck, what are they gonna do exactly?

Posted by: maddogg at August 07, 2012 05:30 PM (OlN4e)

107 93 Will Farrell's as funny as a gaping chest wound filled with lemon juice and salt.

Posted by: nickless at August 07, 2012 05:27 PM (MMC8r)

Depending on the target, that could be really funny. (I denoun... ah, who am I kidding?)

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:30 PM (8y9MW)

108 In Papua New Guinea, they call that drink "the David Rockefeller."
--
Heh

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 07, 2012 05:30 PM (HrBwt)

109 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2012 05:28 PM (pVicn)

"Jedem Das Seine."

It's because of weak thinkers like Galifinakis that I own guns.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 07, 2012 05:30 PM (nEUpB)

110 So was this guy the future BiL on the Hangover? Is that him?

Posted by: toby928� at August 07, 2012 05:31 PM (evdj2)

111
So, he never did fish that altoid out of his butthole after all...

Posted by: La Mauvaise New Yorkaise at August 07, 2012 05:31 PM (Xs+G0)

112 the problem with Hollywood attempts at political humor is with libs they pick on the easiest targets (hippie burnouts etc.) and even then it's like, well at least these people are good at heart! where with conservatives you know they're dead serious.

it's why largely apolitical movies like the Batman trilogy gets read way too into as some kinda conservative manifesto just for having a few conservative themes, cuz where else can you find any discernible conservatism in films today

Posted by: JDP at August 07, 2012 05:31 PM (60GaT)

113 "I disagree with everything they do."
So he disagrees with the Koch's on their pro-legalization of pot, repealing the patriot act and legalizing gay marriage? I don't think he understands anything about them.

Posted by: Ms Choksondik at August 07, 2012 05:31 PM (YOZSv)

114

That's funny, Dan Aykroyd has been shilling for the absolute worst garbage the US has to offer, namely, his crappy movies and vodka.

Oh he was Mr. Subersive in the 70s, and of course a genius...but now he is a slob asshole 1%-er...

He's dead to me, unfortunately.

Now I will be heading down to Del Stator's 99-cent Toad Rach for the best toad you'll find in the tri-state area.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. David Brookes at August 07, 2012 05:32 PM (tcSZb)

115 Say what you want about him, but his delivery of that one line in The Hangover about how you couldn't masturbate on an airplane anymore because of 9/11 was pretty good - "thanks a lot bin Laden." Also, that movie had Heather Graham's titty, so all in all, I think we owe him the courtesy of listening to his political opinions.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 07, 2012 05:32 PM (+lsX1)

116
88I never found Will Ferrell to be the slightest bit funny. Talk about creepy.

Me either.
I don't see what's supposed to be 'funny'...in any of his work.

It's like somebody decided that the prick was funny...and declared it so.
And now, it's like a case of the 'Emperor Has No Clothes'.
People seem afraid to say...."That guy isn't funny".
Well, people in hollywood, that is.

Posted by: wheatie at August 07, 2012 05:32 PM (mtRB0)

117 You waited since 3:30 to post about some dumbass actor?

Content!

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 07, 2012 05:32 PM (Yk5zY)

118 J.J. Sefton, now don't be hating on poor Rockefeller too much. Obviously some head hunters found a use for his empty noggin.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 07, 2012 05:32 PM (HlJeY)

119 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 07, 2012 05:30 PM (nEUpB)

Going to try and get a gun permit (also for self-defensive reasons) but here in NYC I think it may be problematic since I am merely a law-abiding tax-paying citizen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2012 05:33 PM (pVicn)

120 Sam was hilfuckingarious in Dinner For Schmucks.

Yes, he was one of the schmucks.

Posted by: Truman North, iPhone scoundrel at August 07, 2012 05:33 PM (Tkzap)

121 I will give Akroyd this: he has good taste in music.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 05:33 PM (r4wIV)

122 So he disagrees with the Koch's on their pro-legalization of pot, repealing the patriot act and legalizing gay marriage?

Don't they also donate to PBS?

Posted by: Kinder, Gentler HeatherRadish� at August 07, 2012 05:33 PM (/kI1Q)

123 I don't feel sorry for this man. Any sympathy I might have had went away when he chose ti use his wife's death as a political bludgeon. Much like the group of 9-11 widows who used their husbands death to push their liberal agenda. F them and F him.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2012 05:33 PM (L2I78)

124 This from two guys who think punching a baby is hilarious? Hee hee. Oy.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at August 07, 2012 05:33 PM (PcoXF)

125 I just can't stand the guy, he rates close to Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen
on my "How the fuck is this guy getting paid to act?" list.

Where do you think Zach does his best 'work'?

Posted by: The Casting Couch at August 07, 2012 05:33 PM (84pE9)

126 Sam = zak. Autocorrect!!

Posted by: Truman North, iPhone scoundrel at August 07, 2012 05:34 PM (Tkzap)

127 Barky sucks even more than before.

Posted by: Killerdog at August 07, 2012 05:34 PM (EcMtD)

128 Hey, Galifanakas,

cough *Soros* cough

PLEASE, PLEASE tell us how creepy he is.

Posted by: mare at August 07, 2012 05:34 PM (A98Xu)

129 Going to try and get a gun permit (also for self-defensive reasons) but
here in NYC I think it may be problematic since I am merely a
law-abiding tax-paying citizen.

God bless Texas.

"Gun permit" hah. I don't need no steenking gun permit.
Well, unless I want to carry it concealed on my person. Then I need a CCW. But those are "shall issue" here in God's Own State.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:34 PM (8y9MW)

130 121 I will give Akroyd this: he has good taste in music.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 05:33 PM (r4wIV)

Should've been him instead of Belushi.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2012 05:35 PM (pVicn)

131 69 - I'll field this one.

A Conservative is easily identifiable by the swastika tattoos. Old people have them too. You just can't see them because they tend to wear long clothing.

Also they all own machine guns like
.50 caliber Browning anti-aircraft weapons that they use to blow up deer and birds and rabbits because they hate Gaia and like to watch things die.

They also like to force their superstition on everyone instead seeing the truth of Xenu and the volcanos and A bombs. Silly fools.

Posted by: ErikW at August 07, 2012 05:35 PM (DBszw)

132 Wrong post nitwit.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2012 05:35 PM (L2I78)

133 There was a time when I felt guilt about pirating Hollywood products.

Posted by: toby928� at August 07, 2012 05:36 PM (evdj2)

134 Don't they also donate to PBS?

Posted by: Kinder, Gentler HeatherRadish� at August 07, 2012 05:33 PM (/kI1Q)

yes and they personally bankroll quite a bit of public arts

Posted by: The Dude at August 07, 2012 05:36 PM (tw6Ar)

135 Also they all own machine guns like

.50 caliber Browning anti-aircraft weapons that they use to blow up
deer and birds and rabbits because they hate Gaia and like to watch
things die.

Anyone know where I can get a spare Ma Deuce?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:36 PM (8y9MW)

136 Ugh. I don't want to live my life like a liberal who feels that every dumb thing said is personally offensive requiring of a boycott of all good things in life, but these actors and entertainers make that difficult. The only diference is that I'm not offended by what they said, I just find it so mind numingly stupid that I feel I must respond in some way so that they will realize how stupid they are. Usually, they have to take it to another level before I finally turn them off. David Letterman achieved this about 5 years ago (well along with not being funny). I don't resent his money or his viewpoints. I just resent that he can't simply say he disagrees with them. But that is par for the course with liberals. Because as Rush has been saying for 25 years, liberals cannot win in a debate of ideas, so they have to resort to ad hominen attacks. Ugh, its just frustrating. Oh well. There is hope for all of them. Look at Lovitz. And go on Glenn Reynolds.

Posted by: SH at August 07, 2012 05:36 PM (gmeXX)

137 It's been several years I guess, but this actor was favorably reviewed in this column, with high hopes, when he first, um, came out.

When will we learn?

Posted by: comatus at August 07, 2012 05:36 PM (qaVK+)

138 "Punitive taxation of those in Hollywood is sounding better and better."

And intensive IRS audits. Hollywood bookkeeping is an art unto itself; many smash films actually "lost money" by the time the accountants finished lying.

Posted by: Cobalt Shiva at August 07, 2012 05:36 PM (1iauC)

139 That would really confuse Zach. Ask him what he thinks of Pirate Bay.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 07, 2012 05:36 PM (HlJeY)

140

Greg Gutfeld was saying yesterday that the 'Casting Couch' has been replaced by the 'Liberal Ladder'.
It you don't spout liberal views on demand.....you don't get any work.

Gutfeld is right.
But it's even worse that 'not getting any work'.
Hollywood outright persecutes conservatives.

Posted by: wheatie at August 07, 2012 05:37 PM (mtRB0)

141 "Anyone know where I can get a spare Ma Deuce?"

If you have like $15 grand lying around the guys at Gunsmoke in Colorado can get you one.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 05:37 PM (r4wIV)

142 AllenG, you live in Texas. There is an antique store east of Dallas that has a MiG-15 parked outside. It should not be too hard to find the Ma Deuce. Now ammo will be pricey.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 07, 2012 05:38 PM (HlJeY)

143 Everything I know I learned from bumber stickers.

Posted by: Zak Brannigan at August 07, 2012 05:38 PM (yn6XZ)

144 I'll just put this guy Zak's opinions in the same place I put Morrisey's putrid comment about Britain being "foul with patriotism" during the Olympics.

In the shitter. Where they belong. We're paying attention to these idiots, why, again? Oh yeah, our betters in the MFM told us to.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 07, 2012 05:38 PM (d0Tfm)

145 "What do you know about freedom? You think freedom means doing what you like. Well, you're wrong. That isn't true freedom. True freedom means doing what I tell you."
--"The Last Battle", C.S. Lewis

Posted by: Andrew S. at August 07, 2012 05:38 PM (9L8gm)

146 There is an antique store east of Dallas that has a MiG-15 parked outside.

Good point.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:38 PM (8y9MW)

147 Joe Soptic's wife died of cancer in 2006, seven years after Romney left Bain Capital, and nearly two years before she cast her vote for Obama.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 07, 2012 05:38 PM (A+odv)

148 He's stonier than Choom boy?
I doubt that!

Posted by: Concealed Kerry or SubMitt at August 07, 2012 05:38 PM (nonzP)

149
Galifianakis, 42, quietly proposed to his longtime girlfriend Mary Quinn Lundberg, 29, and the two have already dropped the invites to their Aug. 11 wedding in the mail, according to Celebuzz.

Lundberg is a ballerina and an expert in international conflict resolution. She also co-founded the domestic violence nonprofit Growing Voices, which the couple has asked guests to donate to in lieu of wedding gifts.

"ballerina and an expert in international conflict resolution".

*head hits table*

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 07, 2012 05:39 PM (kdS6q)

150 Anyone know where I can get a spare Ma Deuce?

Yes, but bring money. And there are a few extra questions on the form.

Posted by: comatus at August 07, 2012 05:39 PM (qaVK+)

151 2
Hollywood is full of Zaks. Believers in a form of cargo cult. Not
stewards of a real culture that creates, just one going through routines
that have given it money in the past.

Very nice. Occasionally there is a real pearl at this website.

Posted by: pep at August 07, 2012 05:39 PM (6TB1Z)

152 My first thought about this movie (from the preview before DKR), was "that's pathetic."

The next couple of minutes confirmed that.

I also figured it was going to be filled with leftist claptrap, even though the trailer mostly hid that.

I never thought for a second of going to see it.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 07, 2012 05:40 PM (bxiXv)

153 Turkey's worst nightmares are beginning to come true in Syria - a protracted sectarian civil war on its long southern border with the emergence of a de facto Kurdish-controlled region friendly to its main domestic foe.

The Syrian conflict is also poisoning Ankara's sensitive relations with Iran, Syria's vital regional ally, and Iraq and complicating ties with Russia, undermining a declared policy of "zero problems" with the neighbors.

"Syria has turned Turkey's neighborhood policy on its head," said Sinan Ulgen, a former Turkish diplomat now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Brussels. "Ankara's approach to the Syria conflict has been a radical departure from traditional Turkish caution.

Hey turkey, you assholes, maybe you regret making an enemy of Israel now? And oh turkey, go fuck yourselfs

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2012 05:40 PM (05RcU)

154 "Alan Swann. I think he's beneathus!"

"Of course he's beneath us. He's an actor."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7m5VwOpShQ

Posted by: epobirs at August 07, 2012 05:40 PM (kcfmt)

155 SH.. the only one I will absolutely boycott forever is Sean Penn. A completely worthless piece of shit.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 07, 2012 05:40 PM (UljOc)

156 I would call him shit for brains, but that is too insulting to shit.

Posted by: real joe at August 07, 2012 05:40 PM (saJul)

157 "ballerina and an expert in international conflict resolution".

Oy. I loved this, though:
" She also co-founded the domestic violence nonprofit"

Not the "anti-domestic violence nonprofit"
Not the "domestic violence awareness nonprofit."
No, she co-founded a nonprofit dedicated to domestic violence.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:41 PM (8y9MW)

158 C'mon, Zach - admit it.

Most "successful" actors just play "make believe" better than the rest of us.

Go get a juice box and some graham crackers and STFU while the grown-ups are talking, m'kay?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at August 07, 2012 05:41 PM (P6H+d)

159 It's not surprising hollywood is full of libs. They know they've won the lottery. Everytime they see a young actor bussing tables at their fancy restuarant, they think, "There but for the grace of God, and my superior cock sucking technique, go I."

Posted by: Balls of Meat at August 07, 2012 05:41 PM (yn6XZ)

160 She also co-founded the domestic violence nonprofit Growing Voices,
which the couple has asked guests to donate to in lieu of wedding gifts.

No Registry for Hussein, the Lyin kING, Dear Reader, teller of tall tales?

Posted by: Concealed Kerry or SubMitt at August 07, 2012 05:41 PM (nonzP)

161 "ballerina and an expert in international conflict resolution".

*head hits table*
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 07, 2012 05:39 PM (kdS6q)

What, he's marrying Rahm Emanuel???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2012 05:41 PM (pVicn)

162 As an aside, I was loading up 50 lbs. of 0-0-46 into the tank sprayer this morning and noticed the Koch Industries logo at the bottom of the bag.

I'll take a pic tomorrow to enrage my lefty FB friends.

Posted by: ErikW at August 07, 2012 05:42 PM (DBszw)

163 "ballerina and an expert in international conflict resolution".

Look on the bright side. She'll be able to dance around an issue in the most beautiful way, won't she?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 07, 2012 05:42 PM (d0Tfm)

164 "I'd have to go back to school or something. Plus, I'm not willing to punch a baby in the face to win an election, which is pretty much required these days," he said, referring to a scene from the movie.

Just in case you need a reason not to see the movie.

Posted by: SH at August 07, 2012 05:42 PM (gmeXX)

165 Of *course* he's a loudmouthed ignorant shit. What else could he be?

I try not to think about it, and I avoid exposure to it, but the "celebrity culture" thing annoys the shit out of me.

They're fucking actors. Their job is to lie convincingly for the purpose of getting you to spend money. That's it, they don't have to know anything else, they don't have any other qualifications.

People who take them seriously as thinkers are really, really creepy.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 07, 2012 05:43 PM (bxiXv)

166 163 "ballerina and an expert in international conflict resolution".

Look on the bright side. She'll be able to dance around an issue in the most beautiful way, won't she?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 07, 2012 05:42 PM (d0Tfm)

Well done, sir! (a hearty chortle from me)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2012 05:43 PM (pVicn)

167 >>Zak Galifanakis

Never heard of him.

Honestly, I've gone through 50 years on this earth blissfully unaware of his existence.

Probably like his sperm-donor.

Posted by: Y-not at August 07, 2012 05:43 PM (5H6zj)

168
140

Trashing conservative in Hollywood gets you roles and fame, see Tina Fey, Louis C K, George Lopez, Kathy Griffon, Joy Behar, Stephen Colbert, John Stewart, The Dixie Chicks, Green Day... and many more. Most of these people were sub par in their fields and mediocre at best. But with a little conservative/Palin/Bush bashing, they became giants..at least while they were still useful to the narrative.

Posted by: Drew in MO at August 07, 2012 05:43 PM (nEo/i)

169 "ballerina and an expert in international conflict resolution"

Send her to prance through Syria and see what she resolves.

Posted by: fluffy at August 07, 2012 05:43 PM (3SvjA)

170 What, he's marrying Rahm Emanuel???

Not much of a conflict resolutionist, considering the murder rate in Chi-town each weekend exceeds that of the mass murdering Jokers and number of deaths in Baghdad Iraq!
Disarm the citizens so we be free !

I suggest we lower our flags to 1/3 staff each Friday in anticipation of the weekend horrors visited upon the sons of Obama by the sons of Obama in Chicago and DC!

Posted by: Concealed Kerry or SubMitt at August 07, 2012 05:46 PM (nonzP)

171 There is always a culture clash between those who understand how productive industry actually works and those who gape at it like savages, believing it to be some kind of Heap Big White Man Magic. And where there is Magic, there are Sorcerors and Demons; for most people, particularly those of the primitive mindset, the large cloud of Unknowns is filled in by their imaginations with malice, conspiracy, and deviltry.

This is wasted on someone who will be completely forgotten and who most people couldn�t name now.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 07, 2012 05:46 PM (QF8uk)

172 Not much of a conflict resolutionist, considering the murder rate in
Chi-town each weekend exceeds that of the mass murdering Jokers and
number of deaths in Baghdad Iraq!

Those are all permanently resolved conflicts.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:46 PM (8y9MW)

173 He just made my Scrubs DVD complete set worthless to me because I won't be able to watch them without seeing him sucking Obama's dick and the one thing I liked about Scrubs was that it was as apolitical as it could be.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2012 05:47 PM (L2I78)

174
I don't think Will Ferrell is funny at all. I havewatched three(?) of his movies w/kids, they laughed their asses off, I laughed (chuckled) once or twice.
That isn't funny. That's mildly amusing.....maybe.

Posted by: Finn McCool at August 07, 2012 05:47 PM (R/8dI)

175 Man I am a nitwit. Wrong Zak. Nevermind.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2012 05:47 PM (L2I78)

176 Except for the Hangover movies, there's not been jack shit Jack G. has done that I thought worth seeing --and I did not even like his character in The Hangover anyway.

Posted by: logprof at August 07, 2012 05:48 PM (NC/k6)

177 James Tiptree's Hugo winning short story The Girl Who Was Plugged In inoculated me against media adoration.

Poor Philadelphia, she was born deformed but she so loved all her media stars. So after she collapsed she was given a chance at a new life in a new body. She became a cute little blond marionette named Delphi. And it was now her, Delphi, going out in public wearing all the hottest things and just as the companies making the products wanted. You see in this universe, the people had banned commercials so this was evil capitalists way of selling their products - manufactured beautiful people wearing all this beautiful stuff.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 07, 2012 05:49 PM (HlJeY)

178
Expert in international Conflict Resolution?

Is she a Marine?

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...Free Miss Marple! at August 07, 2012 05:49 PM (RFeQD)

179 "There is always a culture clash between those who understand how productive industry actually works and those who gape at it like savages, believing it to be some kind of Heap Big White Man Magic."

I am totlally convinced that reactionary leftists actually believe that electricity comes from a plug in the wall.

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at August 07, 2012 05:49 PM (KVi4X)

180 @173 You're thinking of a different actor with the first name Zach. Also very likely a liberal douche, but not the guy who said this.

Posted by: ATaLien at August 07, 2012 05:49 PM (2p0vz)

181 Man I am a nitwit. Wrong Zak. Nevermind.

He is also an O-Bot.

Posted by: fluffy at August 07, 2012 05:49 PM (3SvjA)

182 I don't think Will Ferrell is funny at all. I havewatched three(?) of
his movies w/kids, they laughed their asses off, I laughed (chuckled)
once or twice.
That isn't funny. That's mildly amusing.....maybe.

How sad is it that Saturday Night Live went from the biting satirical stylings of Dan Akroyd/John Belushi/Steve Martin/etc. to the pretty funny class of Jim Carrey/Dana Carvey/Adam Sandler/etc. to the truly pathetic class which included Will Farrell.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:50 PM (8y9MW)

183 It's under Obama that the Left finally decides to drive the Right out of existance by striking at those who support it. Obama's war on Romney donors, and those who fund Conservative causes in general (Kochs, Cathy, etc.), targeted by their bands of aggrieved rabble to persecute them like kulaks or Emmanuel Goldsteins.

We need to get power in government and begin reforms that will cut their strings from their public sources of support-- public unions, bureaucracies, subsidies, and graft.

Posted by: nickless at August 07, 2012 05:50 PM (MMC8r)

184 Yo, whoever runs the sidebar. That PDF scan of the Dick story was linked right here, on this site, the one at ace.mu.nu, several days ago without any help from Slate.

Posted by: epobirs at August 07, 2012 05:51 PM (kcfmt)

185 "ballerina and an expert in international conflict resolution".

So a fat schlub loser marries a hot rich ballerina over a decade younger than him because he's rich and a celebrity? Shocking.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 05:51 PM (r4wIV)

186 Galifianakis is the illegitimate son of Wicket and Marco Rubios garbage.

Posted by: HoundOfDoom at August 07, 2012 05:52 PM (KhioZ)

187 He's not funny though. He was funny in The Hangover, but he's played the same freaking character in every movie he's been in since The Hangover. And it's gotten annoyingly old, very quickly.

Posted by: Adam at August 07, 2012 05:52 PM (/YJYi)

188 And Galifianakis has his moments, but they are few and far between. He's just not that funny.

Posted by: HoundOfDoom at August 07, 2012 05:53 PM (KhioZ)

189 This Zak is the asshole who got Mel Gibson kicked off his cameo role in Hangover II because it hurt his delicate sensibilities.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2012 05:53 PM (k/Mc/)

190 Isn't Will Ferrell in this movie, too? Can't stand him. I'd like to sue whoever first told him he was funny.

Posted by: natasha at August 07, 2012 05:53 PM (pyYXJ)

191 I've always thought he was a stupider version of Steven Wright's character.

Posted by: nickless at August 07, 2012 05:54 PM (MMC8r)

192 He was funny in The Hangover, but he's played the same freaking character in every movie he's been in since The Hangover.

I never bothered to watch it. That said, it's because he hasn't been acting- even in The Hangover. He's just been showing up and reading lines. Actors are people like Daniel Craig- you know, the committed pacifist who can make you (at least sort of) believe he really wants to kick some (insert bad guy here) ass.

That's acting.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:54 PM (8y9MW)

193 Its been a long time since someone genuinely funny has come along in movies. We've been getting Jim Carrey and Will Farrel and this bozo for years, guys who have a schtick that's kind of fun, but that's all they have. And they all feel like they have to do some serious dramatic role to be important and taken seriously.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 05:55 PM (r4wIV)

194
I think this guy Zak Galifinakis (whatever) is just angling for a guest shot on Jon Stewart's show.

Yeah, that's the ticket. Say something stupid and then get a guest shot on TV. It helps to be famous-stupid, though. Or is that stupid - famous?

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...Free Miss Marple! at August 07, 2012 05:55 PM (RFeQD)

195 Will Farrell is funny but I won't watch him because he won't shut up and act neither will jack black this zac guy sounds familiar but off the top of m head I don't know who he is and I don't care enough to google him

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at August 07, 2012 05:55 PM (7SvlR)

196 I have never seen either Hangover movie. I saw the trailer for the first one and went - 'These guys are total idiots and they deserve their fate.' That is not humor so never bothered.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 07, 2012 05:55 PM (HlJeY)

197 How sad is it that Saturday Night Live went from the biting satirical stylings of Dan Akroyd/John Belushi/Steve Martin/etc. to the pretty funny class of Jim Carrey/Dana Carvey/Adam Sandler/etc. to the truly pathetic class which included Will Farrell.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 07, 2012 05:50 PM (8y9MW)

--Jim Carrey was never on SNL (as a cast memeber, anyway). He was on In Living Color.

You gotta admit, SNL was funny as shit when Chris Rock was on.

Posted by: logprof at August 07, 2012 05:55 PM (NC/k6)

198 I still can't believe people love Anchorman.

It was like pulling fishhooks out of your own back for two hours.

Posted by: nickless at August 07, 2012 05:55 PM (MMC8r)

199
@182 Exactly; Part of it prolly youth/vantage point.
I had my kids watch Belushi/Ackroyd era highlights once, laughed their asses off to Chevy/Richard Pryor job interveiw skit. Ackroyd impersonation of Julia Child. Murry/Curtain/Morris on weekend update.
I thought it was just me and the time in my life, junior high, that I looked back and thought that shit was hilarious. No. They were that good. Thus all the movie success.

Posted by: Finn McCool at August 07, 2012 05:56 PM (R/8dI)

200 You gotta admit, SNL was funny as shit when Chris Rock was on.

You mean when he was the nerdier Eddie Murphy?

Posted by: nickless at August 07, 2012 05:56 PM (MMC8r)

201 I read a few of the comments at the linked article. One of the gems was an earnest plea for the Koch brothers to be hanged since they are traitors to America ... or something.

Yep, once the Leftists can freely kill those they disagree with, then freedom will exist in the American Socialist States.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop at August 07, 2012 05:57 PM (3P3G8)

202
I've always thought he was a stupider version of Steven Wright's character.
Posted by: nickless

He does the same lol random act that Andy Kaufmann did, with the same results. The joke is it's unfunny, or something....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 07, 2012 05:57 PM (kdS6q)

203 McCool, you only thought it was funny because you are white honky.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...Free Miss Marple! at August 07, 2012 05:57 PM (RFeQD)

204 Man Bites Dog; Left winger Mark Cuban financed and is releasing Breitbart's "Occupy Unmasked"

http://tinyurl.com/ct8pthp

Posted by: kbdabear at August 07, 2012 05:57 PM (Y7XKa)

205 In Living Color was hysterical for a couple of seasons, too. Someone wants to bring it back but its going to suck this time.
Speaking of Chris Rock, he used to be funny until Obama was elected, then he's just lost it.

"I still can't believe people love Anchorman."

Me either, I thought it was awful. But then, I think Archer, Family Guy, and American Dad are awful too. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 05:58 PM (r4wIV)

206 Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

War is Peace

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at August 07, 2012 05:58 PM (Y5I9o)

207 193 Its been a long time since someone genuinely funny has come along in movies. We've been getting Jim Carrey and Will Farrel and this bozo for years, guys who have a schtick that's kind of fun, but that's all they have. And they all feel like they have to do some serious dramatic role to be important and taken seriously.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 05:55 PM (r4wIV)

--I like most of Steve Carrell's stuff (not Bruce Almighty though). But Dan in Real Life was *too* serious.

Posted by: logprof at August 07, 2012 05:58 PM (NC/k6)

208 As the Professor says: Repeal the Eisenhower Tax Cuts!

Posted by: Jayne Cobb at August 07, 2012 05:59 PM (rWGH+)

209 Yep, once the Leftists can freely kill those they disagree with, then freedom will exist in the American Socialist States.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop at August 07, 2012 05:57 PM (3P3G

I keep saying, we may have the same vocabulary, but we don't speak the same language because the words mean different things.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 07, 2012 05:59 PM (bxiXv)

210
CJ Burch; Nope, Honky Honky! That shit was funny. Just too funny. And eviserated all the PC bullshit way ahead of time.

Great stuff.

Posted by: Finn McCool at August 07, 2012 05:59 PM (R/8dI)

211 I did like Will Farrell in Stranger Than Fiction, actually. The problem was that the movie took art and writing a little too seriously as a holy calling.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 06:00 PM (r4wIV)

212 Who the hell is this Zak person?

Posted by: Unclefacts Out Of Commenting Retirement Just For This One Thing at August 07, 2012 06:00 PM (6IReR)

213 Christopher Taylor, not getting old in the classical sense. Just the Millenials are so warped in their outlook they think Archer, Terrence and Philip spy show, with all its risque gags is funny. I just see it as fart and sex jokes and go 'is that it?' Gimme some classic stuff any day.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 07, 2012 06:01 PM (HlJeY)

214 200 You gotta admit, SNL was funny as shit when Chris Rock was on.

You mean when he was the nerdier Eddie Murphy?

Posted by: nickless at August 07, 2012 05:56 PM (MMC8r)

--Yeah, he was basically the consolation prize for Edie leaving. Damn, I loved his Nat X skit.

Posted by: logprof at August 07, 2012 06:01 PM (NC/k6)

215 The left are anti-free speech. nothing new. And that is creepy.

Posted by: Fresh at August 07, 2012 06:01 PM (O7ksG)

216 #207 logprof I liked Dan in Real Life a lot. It was enjoyable to watch.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2012 06:01 PM (osdNx)

217 Will Ferrell is a full of crap liberal but it doesn't mean he hasn't been very funny on many occasions.

I don't see having loathsome opinions as the basis for whether a person is funny or not.

It is a basis for deciding to avoid sending any money their way. There are plenty of other people who are very funny but whose political opinions are a complete unknown to me. They can vote however they like and I won't care. But if they trade their celebrity for the gain of a cause they favor and I abhor, they've lost me as a potential customer.

At this point, my likelihood of ever buying another DVD or Blu-ray is very low. I'll just download and watch that with the knowledge I can alway reward the worthy after the fact if I choose.

Posted by: epobirs at August 07, 2012 06:01 PM (kcfmt)

218 204 Man Bites Dog; Left winger Mark Cuban financed and is releasing Breitbart's "Occupy Unmasked"

http://tinyurl.com/ct8pthp

Posted by: kbdabear at August 07, 2012 05:57 PM (Y7XKa)

--Wha?!?!?!?!

Posted by: logprof at August 07, 2012 06:02 PM (NC/k6)

219 I liked Anchorman and if you can watch Stepbrothers without cracking up, you can just go to hell.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 07, 2012 06:02 PM (+lsX1)

220 @219 I thought Stepbrothers was fucking retarded. Sorry.

Posted by: Finn McCool at August 07, 2012 06:03 PM (R/8dI)

221 "I liked Anchorman and if you can watch Stepbrothers without cracking up, you can just go to hell."

truth

Will Ferrell is funny dudes. of course he's made bad movies but he's funny

Posted by: JDP at August 07, 2012 06:03 PM (60GaT)

222 Stepbrothers - how liberals and Obama see young adults. Children to be housed until age 26.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 07, 2012 06:03 PM (HlJeY)

223 A.) New Deal-Great Society tax rates for all actors. It's a lot of money to drain out of the economy for the benefit of one guy--and the key grip needs to make more. So we'll just give it to him.

B.) Funny how a subpart of society--Hollywood--which makes $56 million dollar movies to take down private citizens can talk about money in politics.

Posted by: A. at August 07, 2012 06:04 PM (K6LqR)

224 I thought Will Farrell was funny when the biker threw Baxter over the bridge.

Posted by: kallisto at August 07, 2012 06:04 PM (jm/9g)

225 "I disagree with everything they do. They are creepy and there is no way around that. It's not freedom what they are doing," Galifianakis said when asked about the Koch brothers.

What a fucking ignorant tard of a man-child...'ith nawt fweedum'...grown men talk this way?

Posted by: model_1066 at August 07, 2012 06:05 PM (YbQJm)

226 205 In Living Color was hysterical for a couple of seasons, too. Someone wants to bring it back but its going to suck this time.
Speaking of Chris Rock, he used to be funny until Obama was elected, then he's just lost it.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 05:58 PM (r4wIV)

--You got that right, on all counts. In Living Color at its best was as good as SNL at its best. Chris Rock, indeed, was much funnier when one of his brothers was not in power. I bet he cringes at the Nat X skits now.

Posted by: logprof at August 07, 2012 06:06 PM (NC/k6)

227 189 Yeah this is the same asshole who got Mel Gibson kicked off of Hangover 2, but had no problem being in two movies with Mike Tyson, who is a racist and a convicted rapist.

Posted by: Adam at August 07, 2012 06:06 PM (/YJYi)

228 Jon Lovitz getting death threats after mocking The One (via Breitbart):

http://tinyurl.com/9pbkfv2

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 07, 2012 06:06 PM (UOM48)

229 Yo, whoever runs the sidebar. That PDF scan of the Dick story was linked
right here, on this site, the one at ace.mu.nu, several days ago
without any help from Slate.

In line with the question underneath that link, has Dick's estate relinquished copyright?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 07, 2012 06:07 PM (PMGbu)

230 Wait, kbd, is that the same Mark Cuban who owns the Dallas Mavericks?

Posted by: logprof at August 07, 2012 06:08 PM (NC/k6)

231 What ever happened to Cheri Oteri? She was fairly hot in her day.

Posted by: pep at August 07, 2012 06:08 PM (6TB1Z)

232
"Anchorman", like most (all?) of Will Farrell's movies is funny in an absurd and childish physical humor sort of way. Farrell is an absurd physical actor, who is willing to make himself do absurd things to earn a buck. In another reality, he would be a whore.
My kids love that stuff. I've sat through it and laughed, but if you watch it twice, it really begins to seem strained, and not funny. I watched "Old School" a few months ago (well, part of it) again, and it was just stupid. Not funny on repeat viewings. I couldn't bear to watch more than about 20 minutes of "Old School" without turning it off.

We've been, in part , conditioned to accept and like a lot of stuff that is frankly shit. After all you've seen in life is shit, how can you tell the difference between shit and something of actual value? I think that is the real message in all this. Zak Galifinakis, like his peers, just purveys shit. And they tell us it's great, but it is just shit. Whatever Zak's real talent is, it has been bent to sell shit. I think that Galifinakis himself doesn't know the difference, really. He could be trained to swim in shit and tell us all how great it was, and some people would believe him.

If you have ever seen the movie "Trainspotting", then you know this to be true. They will sell us shit and tell us it's great.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...Free Miss Marple! at August 07, 2012 06:08 PM (RFeQD)

233 Stepbrothers - how liberals and Obama see young adults. Children to be housed until age 26.

Jesus, it's not a documentary. You know that right? If anything it would be a cautionary tale against housing your children into adulthood. Lighten up Francis (Stripes shout out!).

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 07, 2012 06:08 PM (+lsX1)

234 Every time something like this comes up my brother reminds me how actors
were the absolute bottom of the social totem pole. They were the
wretched despised sweepings from the sewer that stuck on your shoe.
Nobody admired them, nobody looked up to them, nobody thought they were
anything but liars and whores.

Bingo. It wasn't until the major studios in the beginning of the previous century rehabilitated them that people started looking up to them.

Big mistake.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 07, 2012 06:08 PM (PMGbu)

235 They were the

wretched despised sweepings from the sewer that stuck on your shoe.

Yay, we aren't at the bottom anymore. Just like Jimmah.

Posted by: Wretched masses yearning to breathe free at August 07, 2012 06:10 PM (6TB1Z)

236 Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 07, 2012 06:08 PM (+lsX1)
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Wow Gristle Encased Head! Ace just made the same argument I did! Tell him how you feel about judging people on the basis of their excessive compensation for very little work.
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Sorry. Won't be around for your response. Got to go but i'll look in later.

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at August 07, 2012 06:13 PM (v7Nqc)

237 We've been, in part , conditioned to accept and like a lot of stuff that
is frankly shit. After all you've seen in life is shit, how can you
tell the difference between shit and something of actual value? I think
that is the real message in all this. Zak Galifinakis, like his peers,
just purveys shit. And they tell us it's great, but it is just shit.
Whatever Zak's real talent is, it has been bent to sell shit. I think
that Galifinakis himself doesn't know the difference, really. He could
be trained to swim in shit and tell us all how great it was, and some
people would believe him.

Oh, thank God we have pretentious dickbags like you around to tell us which movies are shit and which have "actual" value. All this time I was thinking I could just decide for myself what I liked, but you've enlightened me. Now I realize that in my whole life I've never seen anything real man. Then you came along. God bless you.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 07, 2012 06:15 PM (+lsX1)

238 Will Ferrell was at least funny up to Anchorman. Since then, he's been awful.

The only reason the original Anchorman was funny was because the producers and editors hacked the living shit out of the original shitty director's version. What you saw in theaters was not what the original movie. The original movie was ass-retarded, as revealed by the 'alternate/original' version sold as "Wake Up, Ron Burgundy". The entire original plot was scrapped, and essentially an entire new movie -- drastically different from what was originally intended by director Adam McKay -- was created and put into theaters.

Seriously, look at everything Adam McKay puts his hands on. It all SUCKS. He, like Brett Ratner, only has a career because producers and editors parachute in and save his ass once every few movies.

Posted by: wooga at August 07, 2012 06:15 PM (vjyZP)

239 "..and we can force you to be free,
and we can force you to believe..."

David Bowie,
Cygnet Committee

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at August 07, 2012 06:18 PM (1qB0e)

240 Ace just made the same argument I did! Tell him how you feel about
judging people on the basis of their excessive compensation for very
little work.

Guess I missed the part where ace was calling on the government to punish the entertainment industry for their subversive thoughts and incorrect speech. Nice try dummy.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at August 07, 2012 06:18 PM (+lsX1)

241 I didn't need to know Will Farrel was a lib to know he wasn't funny.

Posted by: nickless at August 07, 2012 06:25 PM (MMC8r)

242 Zac G creeps me out. Everything he does creeps me out.

Posted by: TAO at August 07, 2012 06:26 PM (f2iWJ)

243 But, an actor speaking without a script is an actor speaking without a brain.
Posted by: CUS at August 07, 2012 05:26 PM (84pE9)

Or like POTUS without a TOTUS.

Posted by: Chique d'afrique at August 07, 2012 06:26 PM (m95KA)

244 "ensorcellments"??? First time I ever saw that word. Must not use it much in Beaver Hunt

Posted by: DAve at August 07, 2012 06:32 PM (LP2Vw)

245 Zak should be paying ME to see his shitty little films.

He is an asshole. I don't think he is funny and he can kiss my ass.

Posted by: izoneguy at August 07, 2012 06:32 PM (oKH8p)

246 Let me assure you that Family Guy and American Dad ARE freakin' awful, so at least your eyes still work well-

Posted by: DAve at August 07, 2012 06:33 PM (LP2Vw)

247
Gristle Encased Head at August 07, 2012 06:15 PM

You're welcome!!

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes...Free Miss Marple! at August 07, 2012 06:34 PM (RFeQD)

248 #229

I doubt they care that much. One single successful movie has generated more income for the Dick estate than his his entire written works in his lifetime and since. The guy was very much a starving artist type. Also utterly insane, as attested by several people I know who knew him when he lived in LA and was a regular at LASFS. (It was a few years before I joined, so I never met him myself.)

So long as Hollywood pays for their use of his material, what happens on the print side just doesn't amount to much worth getting excited about.

Posted by: epobirs at August 07, 2012 06:35 PM (kcfmt)

249 "I think Archer, Family Guy, and American Dad are awful too."

Archer and American Dad are hilarious. Family Guy was so-so funny in the 90s, but now it's just stupid.

Posted by: Dawnfire at August 07, 2012 06:53 PM (bIeax)

250 You know who's creepy? "Alleged" pedophile, Harry Reid.

Posted by: Warden at August 07, 2012 06:54 PM (HzhBE)

251 He sounds likemost Greeks I've met....rich and left-wing. I still don't get it. No offense, Reince Priebus.

Posted by: the Butcher at August 07, 2012 06:57 PM (8g9qq)

252 Zach has been eating his bellybutton fuzz again. It makes you stupid Zach. Stupid, stupid.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at August 07, 2012 07:01 PM (WItBr)

253 And you give him too much credit ace. He's not really talented or funny. He looks like he should be funny and has a funny sounding name but his act really isn't amusing at all. He just walks around bug eyed and acts like a stupid asshole. Wow, how funny.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at August 07, 2012 07:09 PM (Da/fK)

254 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2012 08:07 PM (6o4Fb)

255 I never heard of this cocksucker, whose name sounds like a sore you'd get on your private parts after a sex tourism trip to Bangkok. (Doctor: "Worst outbreak of Galifanakis I've ever seen. And right near the tip, too.")

But thank you for reminding me of why I don't follow the crap that constitutes popular "culture." A yogurt pot holds a more worthwhile culture.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 07, 2012 08:44 PM (Aec2d)

256 "I disagree with everything they do. They are creepy and there is no way around that. It's not freedom what they are doing"

Wouldn't it be amusing if Galifanakis found himself in a commie gulag somewhere for Thought Crime? And yet, it's very likely that even that would not cure him of his foolishness.

Posted by: pst314 at August 07, 2012 08:57 PM (mFPMV)

257 Will Ferret and Zach Garglesballsis. As unfunny as they are stupid

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 07, 2012 09:14 PM (MtIql)

258 Dumbass hollywood stars. I just saved a 10 spot - I'll wait for HBO.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at August 07, 2012 09:59 PM (7v8o1)

259 "Oh, thank God we have pretentious dickbags like you around to tell us which movies are shit and which have "actual" value. All this time I was thinking I could just decide for myself what I liked, but you've enlightened me. Now I realize that in my whole life I've never seen anything real man. Then you came along. God bless you."

Dude, seriously? One person gives their opinion and they're pretentious dickbag for doing exactly what you did moments before? Except without telling everyone they're horrible for disagreeing?

Ease off of the caffeine.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 07, 2012 10:05 PM (r4wIV)

260 I don't think Zak Galifricawhatsis is funny. He's in a few funny movies, but he's rarely the funny one.

Posted by: JustLikeDavidHasselhoff at August 08, 2012 12:26 AM (WYTHl)

261 Y'all do know that his uncle was a democratic congressman from NC?

Posted by: Neil stout at August 08, 2012 11:07 PM (5qGef)

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