Unlike Dane Cook and Carlos Mencia who were mentioned recently in the forum.

“It scares me,” he says. “Getting known, I think, can be really dangerous to people. I think I’m too smart to get weighed down by that. Somebody said to me once — or I may have come up with this, I can’t remember — ‘I want to be so famous I never tell the truth again.’ And that’s really what happens to a lot of these people. They’re not real people anymore.”

 

One of three children, the 38-year-old Galifianakis was born in Wilkesboro, N.C., where his father was an oil heating vendor whose vision for his sons was more football and less theater. He moved to New York to be an actor but dropped out of acting classes because the seriousness of his teary classmates made him giggle: “Crying makes me laugh. I know it’s horrible to say.”

 

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My top 5 relevent (as in still do stand up) Comedians:

Patton Oswalt

Zach Galifinakis

Demitri Martin

Nick Swardson

David Cross