“That Guy’s Alive, But He May As Well Be Dead”

Before technological innovation freed everyone to create whatever they wanted and not get paid for it, TV networks and cable channels exchanged real money for the right to treat you badly. A dozen years before he interviewed the leader of the free world, Zach Galifianakis spent a few months being tortured by VH1 executives who seemed unaware they’d hired an absurdist. In this episode, fatty puts down his bong long enough to do his monologue at a retirement home.

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