Top 10 Zach Galifinakis Quotes - From the BORED TO DEATH press conference
10. When asked about building chemistry between himself and Schwartzman, he replied, “Well, it’s always difficult because Jason’s always on satellite.”
9. When he and Schwartzman were jointly asked about committing to a series as their movie careers were thriving, he looked down at his phone, then said to Schartzman, “I just got your text about how you were going to announce that you and I were not coming back to the show.”
8. When a critic wondered if he was feeling the heat from “The Hangover,” he first asked, “From the movie, or from last night?”
7. On why he chose to do “Bored to Death”: “You do a show and you like doing it, and you’re fortunate enough to be working, and that’s the way I see it. If this were a ‘Reba’ sitcom, then maybe it would be an easier decision, but this is something you would want to be part of, so I’m very, very happy.”
6. When it was suggested that he’d appeared in just about every film this year “except that movie about the homicidal orphan,” he snapped, “I did props on that.”
5. On his sudden success: “If I were 26 and this was happening, it would be all great, and I would probably buy like 17 Dodge Vipers. But right now it’s just a major inconvenience.”
4. When asked how many Dodge Vipers he did buy, he first replied, “17,” then recanted and admitted, “I haven’t bought any. They don’t make them in station wagon form.”
3. On the matter of losing time for his stand-up because of his film career, he sighed, “I’m going to really miss the Uncle Chuckles in Tampa.”
2. “I think as soon as I’m a wash-up in a couple of years, I will return to stand-up.”
1. When Ted Danson was asked a question about working predominantly on cable television in recent years rather than on a broadcast network, he went for the joke and said, “For Jason and Zach’s sakes, I was on a show called ‘Cheers.’” Galifianakis promptly one-upped him and replied, “I know, I know, I know! You tell me every five minutes! If it isn’t ‘Cheers,’ it’s fucking ‘Becker‘!”
Eric and I recently discovered a shared fascination with the slew of impossibly named NPR hosts we listen to every day: Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep, Corey Flintoff, Korva Coleman, Kai Ryssdal, Dina Temple-Raston.
In fact, we’ve often wondered what it would be like to be one of them. A Nina Totenberg or a Renita Jablonski. A David Kestenbaum or a Lakshmi Singh. Even (on our most ambitious days) a Cherry Glaser or a Sylvia Poggioli.
So finally, after years of Fresh Air sign-off ambitions, we came up with a system for creating our own NPR Names. Here’s how it works: You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name. Then you add on the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited.
So I’m Liarna Kassel. And Eric is Jeric Bath. I even have a new nickname for my little brother in Dylsan Rosarita.
The local affiliates also have some great names. Soterios Johnson on WNYC and Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY (I thought her name was Mosskowain for the longest time) are two of my favorites. My only problem with Liana’s method is I don’t have a middle name!
My NPR name is Djackavid Arenal
My Mom plans her Christmas Eve Meal like Patton, this is one of 3 diagrams.
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Thursday, October 30: Defiance, Ohio
Friday, October 31: Denial, Virginia (the real part); Creeptown, Pennsylvania; Wackjob-Diva-Opportunist Tri-Cities, Pennsylvania (Palin only)
Saturday, November 1: Daylong rally and picnic at Anger, Indiana campgrounds and demolition derby
Sunday, November 2: Lyeville, North Carolina; Bargaining, North Carolina
Monday, November 3: Depression, West Virginia (actually, a whistle-stop tour of the whole state)
Tuesday, November 4: Supression, Ohio; Intimidation, Florida; victory bonfire scheduled for Acceptance, Arizona
My friend Alan and I used to chat before Administrative Law class and one of our classmates suggested that we sounded like Statler and Waldorf. Not sure which one I was supposed to be, but in this context, I’d want to be the punchline guy, Waldorf.
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I just don’t find Don Draper’s Twitter all that clever, is the thing! Maybe also because Don Draper would NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS have a Twitter. Peggy’s is better, in my opinion.
The Reuters story about the dustup brings up the important issue of fictional character law:
Many Twitter accounts are fans pretending to be fictional characters, so the “Mad Men” flap could set a precedent for Twitter users. Although anybody can legally pretend to be any made-up character, Twitter could be in violation of AMC’s trademark if its presentation successfully confuses readers as to whether the feeds are endorsed by the network.
Where was all this fervor over fictional character law when I was writing my law school certification paper? Oh yeah, there was no commercial Internet then. Sigh.