Zach Galifianakis
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Galifianakis -- who's taken the road less traveled away from observational humor -- waxes nostalgic about the days when comedy was experimental, the days when Albert Brooks would read the telephone book onstage.
A big fan of Galifianakis' unique brand of wry, unpredictable humor, Janeane Garofalo called upon his standup talents when she guest-hosted "The Late Show With David Letterman " earlier this year.
Galafianakis took full advantage of the spotlight with a deadpan performance that was part sad-sack raconteur, part lounge lizard -- replete with piano, which, Galifianakis states, "is not a fixed part of my act. If it's there, I use it as a crutch since it adds an earnest approach to the jokes I tell."
One of the standout perfs at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., this past year was his imitation of a hack 18th-century comic named Nataniel Buckner -- complete with 1700s garb and verbiage. ("How are ye? It's good to be hither. ... So, I'm courting this woman with small pox. ...")
While his ultimate dream is to barnstorm the country in a van a la late-'60s folksingers, packing coffee houses for laughs, he'll settle on breaking out this summer as he steps before the camera alongside Gene Hackman, Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt in the comedy "Breakers."
