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At least one on which the inside handle of the passenger-side back door works. For two weeks in 1997, Galifianakis lived on this street in Hollywood where the Subaru is parked. In the Subaru. The actor and stand-up comic had moved to Los Angeles from New York City after getting a holding deal from NBC to star in sitcoms, but he didn’t want to ask his agent to rush the check. Fourteen years later, Galifianakis is wearing, as he usually does, a red plaid button-down shirt, a gray blazer, drab khakis and a battered L.L. Bean backpack his mom bought him in the early 1980s. He looks as if he’s going to his job at an independent bookstore to pay for grad school. He has no publicist, and e-mailed me directly to set up our interview. He has no assistant. “I don’t know what my assistant would do besides get me pot,” he says. [(See Zach Galifianakis in the 2011 TIME 100 poll.)](http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2058044%5F2060338%5F2060055,00.html) Galifianakis — the deadpan foil of _Due Date_, HBO’s _Bored to Death_ and the _Hangover_ movies — doesn’t care about the kinds of things other people care about. Most noticeably, being liked. He’s taking me around L.A. for the day, and when we stop for lunch at a pizza place, some guy a few tables away pretends to look at his cell phone, but he’s really shooting Galifianakis’ photo. Galifianakis pulls out his own phone and takes a picture of him back. There’s no I-caught-you goofiness, no smile, no nod — just look-what-a-jerk-you’re-being confrontation. The guy puts his phone down. Galifianakis switches seats so his back is to him for the rest of lunch. It’s not just that the guy was rude. It’s also that Galifianakis actually dislikes his audience — both the frat-boy fans who dot Vegas casinos in T-shirts bearing his face and his socially awkward _Hangover_ character’s self-description, “One Man Wolfpack,” and the fellow hipsters who go to see him at alternative-comedy clubs. In one recurring bit, he plays the piano until he hears people talk, at which point he walks over to them and screams at them to shut up. “My whole attitude is, You can’t think of funny s— yourself? You have to come watch me?” he says. If Galifianakis didn’t suffer fans gladly before _The Hangover_ made him famous, you should see him now. “He has a hate-hate relationship with his audience,” says Todd Phillips, the director of _Due Date_ and the _Hangovers_. “Comedy is about the unexpected. That’s about as surprising a thing as you can do — hate being loved.” [(See TIME’s review of _The Hangover_.)](http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1902815,00.html) “It’s not good for comedy to be like, Thanks for liking me,” Galifianakis says. “Being popular is poison. My mom and dad are like, ‘You’re not enjoying any of this.’ I say, ‘It’s your fault for not raising me to be superficial.'” But he’s hard not to like. Though he never realizes it, almost everything he does on our 14-hour day together is a favor for someone else. He is one of the few comedians who laughs easily at other people’s jokes. He’s naturally warm and friendly, and he’s used that to get away with creating a new archetype: the loser alpha male. “You can do a stoner weirdo chubby guy with a beard,” Galifianakis says, “but I don’t think that you’ve seen a character who can’t legally be near a Chuck E. Cheese. It’s fresh.” The Chuck E. Cheese line was taken from Galifianakis’ stand-up act and given to his _Hangover_ character, Alan, who lives with his parents, bosses people around, invites himself to a bachelor party and accidentally roofies his new friends, nearly destroying their lives and Las Vegas. In both his stand-up and his movies, Galifianakis makes his characters as detestable as possible, then sees if he can win the audience back. [See the 100 best movies of all time.](http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1953094,00.html) And he always can. “Most comic actors have a darkness in their eyes,” says Phillips. “Zach has a warmth behind his eyes. The only other guy I worked with who is like that is Will Ferrell.” In _The Hangover Part II_ (out May 26), in which Alan and his roofies nearly destroy their lives and Bangkok, Galifianakis’ tender monologue to a bullet-wounded monkey is the most emotional moment. Galifianakis spends a lot of time on his farm in North Carolina, not far from where he grew up in a tiny town called Wilkesboro, where his father worked as a heating-oil vendor and his mother ran a community center for the arts. His farm doesn’t have cell-phone reception or long-distance service, but it does have a pipe that lets him throw beer bottles into the basement recycling bin without having to go downstairs. In L.A., he lives in a small apartment he rents out when he’s not in town. When Ed Helms, his _Hangover_ co-star and a fellow stand-up comedian, moved to L.A. to act in _The Office_, he rented the place for five months. “It’s sort of like the hotel for transients, homeless people and comedians,” Helms says. “It’s tiny. It’s in Venice, which gets very cold, and it’s only heated by a wood-burning stove. It also doesn’t have a shower. It only has a bathtub. You kind of feel like you’re living inside of Zach’s beard.” [(See the top 10 movie bromances.)](http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1886693%5F1886714,00.html) “You’re seeing a guy who moves through the world unapologetically,” Helms adds. “I think that’s a lot of his appeal.” Being unapologetic tends to lead to confrontations, which Galifianakis never seems to mind. He failed out of North Carolina State University by one class (he’d spent the day before the final drunkenly heckling his professor at a church softball game). In 1995, held at gunpoint in New York, he refused to give up the $135 in his wallet, telling the mugger, “I don’t have any money, and the cops behind me are watching you.” Tommy Blancha, the head writer for Galifianakis’ short-lived 2002 VH1 talk show, says his lack of fear comes from a sharp sense that no one is better than anyone else. “I wouldn’t overthink it, though,” Blancha adds. “There’s a good portion of plain old redneck in there too.” Although he’s loudly, proudly liberal, Galifianakis has also got Southern charm and family values. He rarely curses. He loves _The Andy Griffith Show_. He hosts game nights at his house. He responds to fan letters by hand, because when his fans treat him like a person — sitting down and writing a letter, or talking to him when he’s not eating or otherwise engaged — he becomes interested in them too. When kids come up to him and say how much they love _The Hangover_, he yells at their parents for letting them see it. In fact, he’s not sure how he feels about adults’ seeing the movie. After his mother watched the first _Hangover_, she voiced objections to the crass humor. “I had to get on the phone with my mom and say, ‘I agree with you,'” he says. “But at some point, as it did well at the box office, all that embarrassment flew out the window. As long as I can fly them all over the world, they don’t care. I could be in porno.” [(See a TIME story on “reality” documentaries.)](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2022632,00.html) Most people who know Galifianakis know his big Greek family, because he brings his parents, brother, sister and even his cousins everywhere. His parents and his older brother Greg went to Thailand for the _Hangover Part II_ shoot, and the whole family went to Atlanta for _Due Date_. At premieres, they laugh way too hard at his lines. Though his father wanted him to play football and become a naval officer, he wrote to Johnny Carson, saying he should put his son on TV after he killed with a Shields-and-Yarnell-inspired mime sketch for his elementary school talent show. Greg says he always knew his brother would have a performing career. “But the cover of _GQ_ — I would never have thought that would happen, especially with the way he dresses,” he says. “It’s more likely he would have been on the cover of _Homeless Today_.” [See the 100 best TV shows of all time.](http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651341%5F1659188,00.html) Galifianakis is not a comedian with family issues whose humor comes from a dark place. His jokes are absurdist fun — culture mocking and taboo hunting, not deep introspection. His biggest comedic influence is his high school friend Jodi Brown. The very first time they hung out, Brown took Galifianakis to his car and went into a long speech, pretending he was having an incestuous relationship with his mother. One of the greatest jokes Galifianakis ever heard was when a cousin woke him up at 2 a.m. and told him that he needed to talk. He took him all the way downstairs to the kitchen table. And then he said, “Is it a sin to talk to black people?” All of Galifianakis’ favorite comedy bits involve acting very serious about something ridiculously offensive. On Father’s Day, Galifianakis texted, “Just thinking of you!” to _Hangover_ director Phillips, who had a bad falling out with his dad. (Phillips found it hysterical.) “Right before we’re doing a take, he’ll whisper to me, ‘I think I can smell your Bengay,'” says Ted Danson, who co-stars with him on _Bored to Death_. “Or ‘Your Poligrip is showing.'” While shooting the first _Hangover_ in Las Vegas, Galifianakis was sitting at a blackjack table with his mother when a kid came by and asked to take a picture with him. Galifianakis spun around, furious, and said, “Can’t you see I’m with a prostitute?” [(See a TIME interview with director Todd Phillips.)](http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2029614,00.html) When Galifianakis is doing stand-up, he usually starts by putting down his backpack, digging into his wrinkled coat for a crumpled piece of paper, apologizing for not preparing and then delivering tightly crafted jokes. He might tell the jokes while playing classical music on a piano or lip-synching “Tomorrow” while dressed as Little Orphan Annie (as he did when he hosted _Saturday Night Live_ in March), but they’re still very much jokes. The best ones might make you feel guilty for laughing. “Have you seen that show on CBS called _The Amazing Race_? Is that show about white people?” Or “My Southern accent starts to come out a little when I drink. Like, I’ll say _y’all_ or _n—–s_.” He’ll deliver those same jokes whether people laugh or not, whether the audience is young or old, black or white. “A good stand-up, you lead the audience,” he says. “You don’t kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.” In a YouTube video of a stand-up routine, Galifianakis brings a drunken audience member onstage to berate her — as he often does with audience members — then asks security to remove her. “I hate to do that,” he says to the crowd. “But if I didn’t do that, that woman was going to be date-raped later. I don’t want that to happen. I want to be by myself when I do it.” It’s a gutsy joke. Because he really is furious at the woman and her rude self-indulgence. And because he’s admitting to the awfulness of his feelings. And because he says the word _rape_. [(See TIME’s video “What if There Were No More Hangovers?”)](http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,932547511001%5F2069995,00.html) Threatening to rape audience members is not the fast track to starring in big-budget films. It’s taken Galifianakis nearly 20 years to make it. When he was a struggling stand-up comedian, he worked as a nanny to a boy who informed him that if he wasn’t allowed to watch TV instead of doing his homework, he’d tell his parents that Galifianakis touched his penis. He was the only waiter at the New York restaurant Stingy Lulu’s who didn’t wear drag. The Kurdish rebel who owned the place made an exception just because he liked Galifianakis so much. “I was cute then,” Galifianakis says. “I was really cute.” “Did you ever see what Zach looked like in high school?” asks Bradley Cooper, _The Hangover_‘s handsome leading man, who appeared on one of the last episodes of Galifianakis’ VH1 show. “He looked like James Dean. He’s a very cool guy. If we were in high school, it would be exactly the same dynamic it is now. Me calling: ‘Do you want to hang out?’ ‘Yes, Bradley, O.K. I’ll be at this bar.’ ” Galifianakis even looks cool in the video Kanye West asked him to make for his song “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” in which he rides around his farm on a tractor and lip-synchs lines like “Bought more jewelry/ More Louis V/ My mama couldn’t get through to me.” Not just Kanye asks him for favors. Galifianakis is the alternative comic who made it, so he’s also the alternative comic who’s asked to do the most alternative-comic stuff. This morning, Galifianakis’ first stop is to be interviewed for an IFC show hosted by Scott Aukerman, who produces Galifianakis’ _Between Two Ferns_, a video series on funnyordie.com in which celebrities subject themselves to a hostile, cable-access version of Galifianakis who mispronounces their names and asks Ben Stiller, “Do you wish that you had ever followed your parents into comedy?” [See what’s wrong with being a celebrity.](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1832852,00.html) Ron Howard, who is also being interviewed for the IFC show, introduces himself to Galifianakis during a break. “It’s no _Between Two Ferns_,” Howard says. Galifianakis shakes his hand, looks around and says, “Who do I see about getting paid?” Afterward, a photographer shoots a promotional portrait, and Galifianakis apologizes for being unable to fake a smile — something he’s never been able to master. “I can’t do it,” he says. “It breaks my heart.” When we arrive at Pizzeria Mozza, Galifianakis points across the street at a mechanic’s shop. He lived there too. In an Audi. He talked the mechanic into letting him sleep in it. After lunch, on the way to do another favor — appearing on two comedian friends’ podcast — he drives by an obese man in a wheelchair. “There’s my trainer,” Galifianakis says. “Oh, that’s terrible. It’s really a joke about me. I’m out of shape. I try to justify it! My cousin is a quadriplegic. I try to justify it every which way.” It’s the first time I’ve heard him feel bad about something he’s said. [(See pictures of movie costumes.)](http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1699703%5F1511794,00.html) Galifianakis can make offensive jokes because he’s very secure in his beliefs. He made 1,500 bumper stickers that say “No Chain Stores in Venice” because Venice is cool and chain stores are not. He lit up a prop joint on _Real Time with Bill Maher_ to show support for legalization of marijuana. He won’t confirm it was him, but at least one person in the _Hangover Part II_ cast fought to kick out Mel Gibson, who was supposed to have a cameo, after recordings leaked of his racist, abusive tirades. “I feel that Zach knows how to handle things correctly in life,” says Jason Schwartzman, who stars in _Bored to Death_. “If a bunch of people were trying to kick our ass or we were lost in another country, he would get us out of that situation. He has an understanding of people, and he’s moral.” Not once, Galifianakis says, was he tempted in school to go down to the dam by the lake where the bad kids hung out. Not once. There are a few hours before Galifianakis has to be at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) theater to do a favor for his comedian friend Brody Stevens. The theater is within walking distance of my house, so he asks if he can come over. We stop by a 7-Eleven, where he buys a tin of Kodiak tobacco, and the guy behind the counter doesn’t recognize him even though his face is on all the Super Big Gulp collectible cups promoting _Hangover Part II_. At my house, we sit on the deck drinking white wine while he dips and spits into a Thai seltzer bottle. While my 2-year-old son Laszlo has never seen _The Hangover_, somehow he knows that Galifianakis is funnier than anyone else he’s ever met. When the force of Laszlo’s high five causes Galifianakis to hit himself in the face, Laszlo laughs uncontrollably. When Galifianakis does a perfect impersonation of Laszlo’s sneeze, he loses it. I am very sad that Laszlo is too big to wear one of the 500 onesies with Galifianakis’ face printed on them. He had them made because “it’s funny to have a guy that looks like a rapist on a onesie.” [(See TIME’s video “Pop Chart: Michael Bolton In, Charlie Sheen Out.”)](http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,941682994001%5F2071214,00.html) By the time we reach the UCB theater, Stevens is nervously pacing backstage. Galifianakis is obsessed with Stevens — maybe because he does what Galifianakis does, only without the polished jokes and happy child eyes. A former minor-league baseball player, Stevens performs with a tambourine, anger, cadence and non sequiturs. After Stevens starts his act, Galifianakis stays backstage, talking to Dave Foley (of the sketch troupe the Kids in the Hall) and drinking a marijuana tincture from an eyedropper. Jon Hamm, star of _Mad Men_, is there too. Stevens gets the audience to chant Galifianakis’ name, so Galifianakis goes onstage, tells two new jokes and then drags some poor guy named Jake up from the audience and picks on him for being heavy. “I met Jake at World’s Strongest Toilets,” he says. Jake giggles a lot, because being insulted by Zach Galifianakis is an honor. He’s the new Don Rickles. Out on the sidewalk after the show, a big guy in his 20s asks Galifianakis to say something into his video camera. Galifianakis says no. The guy gets in his face and says he owes it to him as a fan. Galifianakis tells him to go away in a manner that makes him go away. We walk three doors down to La Poubelle, a French joint near the UCB theater, where Hamm buys drinks and kneels in front of Galifianakis’ chair, trying to get his attention. Hamm has been going to see him perform at the music and comedy club Largo for nine years and says his success lies in his fearlessness. “He’s the best kind of comic, who makes you just uncomfortable enough to wonder why you’re laughing,” Hamm says. “That’s the role of comics in our society — to call out the weirdness and make you think about it.” [(See TIME’s Pictures of the Week.)](http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek) It’s hard to do that, though, when everyone just wants you to do the lines from _The Hangover_ that are printed on the back of their “One Man Wolfpack” T-shirts. So Galifianakis is trying to figure out what he wants to do next. “He’s a deep one,” says stand-up Patton Oswalt. “In this business, once you get hot, it’s, Don’t stop! Don’t pause to think! Just do it! Boom, boom, boom! And he’s like, I’d like to pause and think about this.” Galifianakis has some movie offers, but he doesn’t want to do any of them just for a nicer Subaru: “I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.” He says he has no idea what’s funny anymore. His dream project would be a TV show on which he goes around the world learning what is funny in each culture. “I don’t think sarcasm worked at all in Thailand,” he says. “Fart jokes are probably funny. Falling down is funny.” Being famous, not so much. 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