It usually takes years – and more than a few middling movies – for audiences to burn out on a given comic.
Sometimes it happens in the blink of an eye – hello, Yahoo Serious. Other big screen comedians, like Adam Sandler, stick to their shtick and keep raking in the bucks.
Could Zach Galifianakis fall into the former camp?
Watcher TheButlerDidIt is already fed up with the comic actor’s work both on and off camera:
I am so over Galifianakis. Not only am I bored with his same old schtick, I find his primadonna attitude over the Mel Gibson cameo just gross. We can debate all day whether Mel is a total jerk, (seems like), but to throw a hissy over his supposed cameo yet have no problem with Mike Tyson’s? Just can’t get past it. Don’t know if it’s true, but I think I read that RDJr helped to secure Mel the cameo. As he should, as Mel put up his own good, (at the time), reputation and money to help stage Downey’s comeback. The one who comes out as unwatchable in all of this? Galifianakis.
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I agree with Butler. Galifanakis was funny in The Hangover, but since then all he’s done is play variations on the “weird guy who says random things” schtick that he uses in his stand-up shows, and it’s getting old quick.
You know, I thought the Hangover was a funny film, but for some reason I’ll never view it with the esteem I hold for films like Office Space, Supertroopers, Planes Trains and Automobiles, and similar cult classics. Hangover funny like these but too mainstream.
And ditto on Galifanakis. Some jokes are funny no matter how often you hear them, but some are only funny once, and then more annoying. Guess which is the latter.
Zach G: From hero to zero, just like that.
He should hope, for his sake, that future costars of his aren’t put off by fat, hairy, self-righteous primadonnas who hold their opinions above others, or he might find himself blacklisted as well.
i wonder if hell complain abt slick willy?
http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/who/article/-/8325796/bill-clinton-joins-cast-of-the-hangover-2/
Comic actor half-lives *do* seem to becoming shorter and shorter these days….
Thanks for the CotW status. I’d like to add that having Slick Willie in the movie is just adding insult to injury. Bill in Bangkok? Can’t we all think of a joke about that? Seems like a really low bar to hurdle. I may be wrong, I totally loved The Hangover, but I am really suspicious of this forray.