Zach Galifianakis: Laugh or Take Offense; You Have to Choose

When it comes to comedy Zach Galifianakis forces you to choose. Are you in disagreement with the joke, or do you really want to laugh. You can't have both.
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[@lepercloud]

It's so nice to hear just how intelligent Zach actually is. His comedy reveals this too, of course... but I kind of hate how he's in the middle of making a really strong, interesting point and then (I think) worries he's been too serious for a minute and has to self-deprecate to relieve that anxiety. Just keep being brilliant, Zach!

[@TheEnergizer94]

You actually make a really good point

[@kevinw712]

I think that can legitimately happen, but I also don't think that it's all the time. Just that the more I watch him talk, when he pulls that kind of move I think there's plenty of times he's not concerned he's getting so serious as to deflate himself, rather the speed at which his mind works, he knows that to deflate in that way simply will be very funny, so in that tiny instant that becomes the most important thing to do, to take advantage of a funny moment. It's like he's able to in the matter of one second step outside and look at the thought objectively like it's someone else saying it, and interject the diss for a laugh.

[@imadetheuniverse4fun]

I feel like he self-deprecates himself in those moments to stay relatable and thus get his point across more poignantly to more people

[@howlinhoward]

Remember he doesn't like to do these interviews. He doesn't want to be taken seriously just because he's a celebrity. That may be the source of his self-deprecation, actually. I may be saying exactly what you just said :)

[@howlinhoward]

@@imadetheuniverse4fun Remember he doesn't like to do these interviews. He doesn't want to be taken seriously just because he's a celebrity. That may be the source of his self-deprecation, actually. I may be saying exactly what you just said :)

[@shadbakht]

"You will stop hearing the term Big Brother, because we will do it to ourselves." Neil Postman

[@alexandrebeaudry8377]

Inner Brother

[@neokoga]

That book is full of prescient gems.

[@nspector]

That's nuts that he knew that.

[@genuinelyjag]

It’s crazy how much Sam vibes off of Zach in these interviews..that snoring thing was brilliant

[@TrumbullComic]

Zach makes some great points.

[@falconater68]

They're all common sense.

[@adaabeja2061]

falconater68 which not a lot of people have, so it’s good to state common sense to people who don’t have it.

[@saintjabroni]

@@adaabeja2061 Exactly. Common sense is becoming very lost these days. Thanks, social media and group-think. Think for yourself. Actually think it through. Fuck, folks.

[@mrbenmall]

I can't remember laughing that hard in recent memory. When you guys composed yourselves and then you started snoring when Zach spoke, I died. So funny!

[@adamschlinker972]

"What's on Bravo" made me laugh really hard for some reason.

[@MarkAlanEffinger]

"Comedy is really good as the B.S. Detector." - Zach nails it. "Snorrrrre!" - Sam retorts...

[@scottsummers3868]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

[@Kate-oy6qd]

Haven’t heard this, but it has so much validity to it. Wow.

[@winniedabish9463]

I guess u didn't think about rape or molestation.. those are just 2 ways to feel inferior without consent.. I can the next 15 ways but the point has been made.. dumbass quote regurgitated by another dumbass

[@blue3katrin]

@@winniedabish9463 oh come on. The Roosevelt quote obviously doesn't apply to rape and molestation. It's about not being a doormat and empowering yourself in the face of rudeness and disrespect. Your response is ridiculously over-the-top and calling Scott a dumbass? Wow, you've got so much class. Sucks to be you.

[@fredtaylor9792]

@@winniedabish9463 No, it still holds absolutely true, otherwise you're saying every victim of a crime has to feel inferior, yet many don't. I've been robbed before and even though I was unable to stop it, I never felt inferior. I was concerned for my safety but never felt I was inferior to him.

[@ColinFox]

@@winniedabish9463 Why do you think that everyone would automatically feel "inferior" when attacked, sexually or otherwise? There's no end to the number of ways you could feel about the situation, and your position within it. Your response could be anywhere from catatonic depression to a John Wick style rampage, and anything in between. Just because you're a victim of some situation, doesn't mean you have to feel that you are unworthy. That's not only ridiculous, it's psychologically unhealthy.

[@megandutton]

Zach’s eyes burn right through my soul.

[@quackman]

and into my heart

[@dorisjohnson6104]

never would have thought this man is a genius

[@satchell78]

"We are big brother" That's some self awareness

[@iBgamin]

This is such a cool show. I get so excited to see notifications from you!

[@Luketc7]

The fact that zack goes to open mics is amazing

[@MrMorsbach]

I really love how he positions his feet.

[@maryfedele5321]

i have small cell lung cancer and zach is my new medication. I love you

[@StephenGeorge]

Hope you're doing better Mary!

[@SzymonAdamus]

Great guy. Very down to earth I think.

[@albrix5]

Man this is the best interview you've done!

[@akeemthomas729]

This is the best guest hands down love Zack ☝️also coming from a comic

[@kalebpost20]

Why am I just now coming around on Zach Galifianakis? He’s super funny! Rising up the ranks for me

[@jhanick]

nolss are slow

If Zach could live out of a van doing his own type of comedy to survive, i could see it happening......he is the result of comedy evolving to this modern day....he is the guy who resists fame and fortune, but it is foisted upon him anyway as he's fighting it.....great genius of comedy.....his performance at the Purple Onion in San Fran is fantastic, even though half of the time he is just bantering with the audience members....if someone came to you and pitched you the idea of "Between Two Ferns", you would laugh in his/her face......

[@AlexanderMoen]

Haha, great edit at the end

[@theheartofablackbird2109]

I

[@justinsullivan5839]

So true.

[@shriswaroops2675]

What he is saying is absolutely true... !

[@Revjonbeadle]

Did he just quote Neil Postman!!!!???? So cool.

[@ayrow69]

As a performer, I deal with this all of the time. Culture has changed. Shock humor doesn't work like it used to and often backfires if you're not careful. Times have changed...

[@woodhd]

exactly, dont mistake the apparatus of self absoption for the real world

[@ayrow69]

@Benghali In Platforms understood, but if you want to keep your job or stay employed, your point of view will ultimately fail you in the real world. People aren't going to reconform to the old humor just because you are bitching about it. Try that on the millennial generation and let me know that works out. Unfortunately, it is what it is.

[@mreeping]

Wow, thats a really good point he makes

[@bobbib5779]

2:05 he has a bit thats stays in my mind that i felt this way about "something a blind man will never read in braille . ? if you see something say something. im not sure this is every where but where i use to live that was the slogan

[@adammatis5527]

He's right you know, we never stopped to think

[@weavemagic]

cutting it after he said that was pretty clever :)

[@danielbloomquist9810]

Tim Minchin - 15 Minutes. The song the world needs to hear on repeat until nuance, humility, and context no longer face the threat of extinction.

[@manonthedollar]

The host of this show is an excellent interviewer.

[@thomas11eleventm]

This garden gnome knows life

[@fauzimukhtar8892]

zach has got beautiful hair (referring the ones on the top of his head)

[@rileyandersen7346]

Out Cold was probably his best movie actually.

[@frostychickenprods]

That’s a very lively garden gnome.

[@mooalijasmine]

haha... do we have any corn I can eat put of a can instead of watching this?

[@actingfreakification]

black and white Zach is pretty cool

[@rjones6801]

I didn't realize Will Smith was Zach's mom. Strange world.

[@MapleMeHoney]

Can Zach please stop assuming his audience is comprised of one group of people that isn't interested in what he has to say... the minute he said 'social experiment' he peaked my interest really good.

[@hammun6]

Zach is so right, this aversion to overexposure has become a generational thing. Younger people really fail to grasp it, which is a shame, because we have indeed become our own big brothers and it will lead to the decline of the social fabric as we know it (if it hasn't already).

[@jez6821]

I just finished eating corn out of a can before I clicked on this and I don't normally eat it. Weird

[@epico1657]

Nice to know

[@CanadianSmitty]

America's Ricky Gervais! Get them both in a movie asap!

[@Kate-oy6qd]

Christopher Smith don’t disrespect Zach like that ever again. He is his own entity and should never be compared to anyone- ESPECIALLY Ricky. Lol

[@alterego1362]

Damn.. I myself am Big Brother. Big revelation.

[@karynb7781]

This is true. During pandemic care, gifts were arriving like popcorn tins and oddest things and then some stranger would be there, with the NO Visitation Policy in place with their camera phone, saying here's a gift and I 'need a photo of you as a group in your masks' in the hospital at work. Like, who? are you? No, no thank you. Absolutely I will NOT be leaving my station to follow you to a group photo. No. I can just shake my head. Shame on them. There were staff thrilled to, in fact, everyone was thrilled to have a photo. Can you send me a copy too, they'd ask? It happened shift after shift for awhile, the later gifts came with a you-owe-me-a-photo contingency. Decency says: No gifts. No staff photos. IDK exactly why? But my gut says it's disgusting. All I can think of are the faces of everyone actually suffering then and now & how their families couldn't come in.

[@miriamgreen3973]

I think my son's jokes are funny then i add "remember who you're telling that to". Both can coexist.

[@JoseAGamez-ci9rt]

But I think that's not a reprimand, right? I believe Zach was referring to a strong reprimand as in "you shouldn't have said that" or "stop it or your grounded".

[@lisalawn1111]

I revised my opinion and my comment- but i think I’ve been blocked from comments? Oh well... I still think Sam is an excellent interviewer.

[@DarrenSemotiuk]

I C U

[@Devilish__]

Objective or subjective.

[@TheEnergizer94]

3:20 damn from a side view he looks really good. If he lost some weight on his face he probably could rival Bradley Cooper, if not for the height difference lol

[@tripthelightfantastic6519]

He’s adorable no matter you look at him.

[@Elmerphant]

Comedians workshop and experiment jokes as they build an hour through smaller gigs. It is not okay to film comedians because if their jokes get out, you kill their hour or 30 minutes they are trying to build. An act gets killed after it's out so you might ruin months of work posting a comedians show. That is why it is not cool. Also, it is nice just to experience something live that happens once. Each live show of music, plays, comedy, etc. are unique it is kind of nice to have experienced something in real life that you can't go back to. Like a lovely memory. We don't need to immortalize every moment. Just a thought.

[@kevinw712]

To the point toward the end, Ricky Gervais has said it very succinctly: there's no difference whatsoever anymore between "fame" and "infamy". I've never seen people so eager and proud to have mass attention and get well known for doing something clearly objectively horrendous and/or stupid. Whatever gets that Instagram number up, baby. So particularly like the 30 and under generation, that guy with the phone in the crowd has that reaction because he genuinely can't fathom someone that doesn't want to be captured -- which you know without doubt is being so as to then share it for the most possible views -- in ANY possible given situation to then potentially go viral. It's so fitting that "viral" is the term used in this kind of set up, a word that prior to 15-20 years ago was only ever for something very bad.

[@arthuredens]

Can I do neither and just not laugh?

[@sam-cs7ne]

Of course Sarah Silverman tells him not to do an offensive joke lol

[@Hoganply]

To be fair, she is a social justice comedian, which is basically like a Southern Baptist Punk.

[@Benjabola]

It's Tricky - Beastie Boys

[@davidharrison7030]

Interesting. The moral and humor instincts are often in conflict, but the humor one is quicker and deeper. That's why humor is so subversive.

[@seanpage4406]

You should interview me

[@godsrightbuttcheek]

This guy gets it!

[@unknownceleb642]

Everyone is worried about Big Brother… but we should really fear ourselves. We live in a society where we can spend hours on devices entertaining ourselves. We have access to TV and videos in any location. We can amuse ourselves to death. -Neil Postman.

[@tpstrat14]

Well he’s talking about performers being filmed. I’ve never been filmed. If you start taking a video of someone on the street they get very pissed.

[@Christopher-ms5ke]

People constantly recording don’t know how to live in the moment. Why save it to watch later when you’re not experiencing it to the fullest then?

[@robertlaporte2998]

It's about immunity for police or comedians I prefer the comedians.

[@Jacob-gi8ww]

I think Zach G. might be a little insecure. Brilliant and self-aware, but maybe thinks too much.

[@darj617]

He has a lot of gay mannerisms.

[@lungflogger9]

not everyone films themselves or is even on social media.....

[@losgryfog]

I feel like there are a lot of contradictions in this.

[@andye5724]

Go on... Explain

[@bottlenose.dolphin]

wow we live in a society 😔✋

[@BitterBucolic1]

comedians are supposed to get into trouble

[@JohnDoe-ub8fq]

Laugh or Take Offense??? GET ANTHONY JESELNIK.

[@a.a.1245]

1:04 Not funny dude. I was trying to listen to Zach.

[@johnmartinez7440]

It was pretty funny. Zach was rambling and taking a while to get to the point of his story.

[@OneLove-ij2ss]

Change that creepy outro.

[@modernmind]

One of your least pretentious interviews...as an interviewer. Aside from that, it was a joy.

[@bm4114]

Comedians gaslight us when they say we have to choose between offense and laughter. The very reason offensive jokes land is because people have no choice but to laugh when it’s funny even if they feel offended. Who else will stand with me and say that they have experienced finding offensive jokes funny, and have also been offended while laughing? When the audience groans at your problematic joke isn’t that better than laughter? It means you succeeded at trolling them, lol. Groans are the ultimate stamp of approval for comics who view their art form as either a PC battle with the audience or a clever seduction of their biases. I feel like a bigger point to be made is that offensive comedy is only one kind of comedy and it gets a lot of press, the same way boring pretentious movies win oscars. Nothing says art like offensive and boring.

[@johnmartinez7440]

It must be difficult as a comedian lately - the idea that you're one bad joke from having your career up in smoke. That said, blaming it on people being too sensitive and just needing to "lighten up" (as Zach was skirting around), is lazy commentary. Be a better comedian and don't shit on people because it's popular to.

[@simonmcnamee619]

People will continue to use the term 'big brother' because people will continue to not have had read the book 1984. What does 'big brother' have to do with people filming each other and using social media?

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

You've got to remember though, that humour or rather sarcasm is also the language of the bully!

[@guitaoist]

“Were living in times where..” the death of comedy is being offended, aka liberals not being able to take a joke.

[@basquat76]

There's nothing like comedians talkinga bout how awesome comedians are. Thet always think they are very deep and provocative, but in reality they're always kind of on the surface. His Mom said laugh or be offended. How about if the joke is just not funny? Did it ever occur to Galifinakis that maybe every joke he does isn't funny. No, to a comedian it's always the audience who's at fault. They're not the big truth tellers of society they think they are.

[@TheRavenfish9]

Cishetero white rich dude film star thinks the constant filming of each other is bad for society.... while on camera. Funniest thing he said this whole video.

[@TheJaker5]

Yep the late millennials consist of some of the worst people I’ve ever met in my 36 years of life. Technically I’m a millennial but the 25 -30 year olds I’ve met recently are some truly awful folks. Not all of them! But quite a bit and I get along great with everyone. It’s like they suffer from bipolar-I’mentitledosis. They will destroy the world

[@gardenlover9663]

I thought Zach was a successful comedian, but poor guy can't afford pants that go all the way to his shoes!

[@korndud]

damn this is disappointing. he's another one of those "wahhh i can't say anything i want" comedians. no one is saying you can't be vulgar. comedy, more than anything, normalizes terrible views and language that oppresses people. it makes it funny, ok and relatable to say terrible things.

[@mbolchunas]

Black and White is unwatchable...