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 presented his show Late World with Zach on VH1. Galifianakis has been a star in a variety of films that include The Hangover Trilogy (2009-2013), Due Date (2010). The Campaign (2012), Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (2014) as well as Masterminds (2016). He has voiced characters in animated films like Puss in Boots (2011), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Missing Link (2019), and Ron's Gone Wrong (2021). Galifianakis is the host of the Funny or Die website chat show Between Two Ferns. Galifianakis has appeared in the FX series Baskets. He was nominated in 2017 for the Primetime Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actor in Comedy Series. Zachary Knight Galifianakis was a native of Wilkesboro, North Carolina on October 1 1970. His mother is of Scottish-Irish and English descent, and his paternal grandparents were Greek immigrants from Crete. His father was a Greek Orthodox Christian and he was born. He has a younger sister, Merritt as well as an elder brother named Greg. His cousin is Washington Post cartoonist Nick Galifianakis His uncle, who is also known as Nick Galifianakis, is a politician. Galifianakis was educated at Wilkes Central High School and after that, he attended North Carolina State University where he studied communications. While at university Galifianakis worked for a station that was accessible to the public. He was a teacher of waltz in 1991 when he met Mary J. Blige. Galifianakis was on Saturday Night Live two weeks after making his television debut with Boston Common. He has stated "I worked for Saturday Night Live for two weeks. Britney Spears was the host for a week while I was on it. I sketched a picture. Will Ferrell was to be her bodyguard at her belly button. We were going to shrink Will so that he could appear to be an abdominal button. When I explained the idea to them, she stared at me. She finally said, "Yeah that is funny." Galifianakis co-starred in the film Out Cold, and had small parts in Corky Romano, Below, Bubble Boy, Heartbreakers, Into the Wild, Super High Me, Little Fish Strange Pond and Largo.