To this day, how I was with my father in the first few years of my life has had a long lasting impact on my relationship with my mother as she felt very rejected by my daddy obsession – we’ll get on to mothers in some other posts!
When my parents broke up, according to my mother (I always feel like things get ‘amped’ up a bit), I was inconsolable and behaved like my father had died and was grieving.
Since his first-aired comedy song in 1976, he has sold more than 12 million albums (as of 2007 His works have earned him four Grammy Awards and a further 11 nominations, four gold records, and six platinum records in the United States.
Weird Al's first top ten Billboard album (Straight Outta Lynwood) and single ("White & Nerdy") were both released in 2006, nearly three decades into his career.
He played Davis in the Fox drama series, Tru Calling. He also had a recurring guest role as a doctor on the animated Adult Swim show Tom Goes to the Mayor and appeared in several episodes of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! In 2006, Galifianakis appeared in Fiona Apple's music video for the song "Not About Love", where he is seen lip-synching the lyrics to the song.It included a stand-up routine and a segment with a piano, and concluded with an a cappella group (The Night Owls, introduced as his "12 ex-girlfriends"), singing "Eternal Flame" by The Bangles while he made jokes.In 2002, he hosted his own VH1 talk show called Late World with Zach, it featured many of his friends and regular performers from the LA comedy and music venue Largo where he appeared frequently during this time period. Galifianakis played Alan Finger on the Comedy Central show Dog Bites Man, a fake news program that caught people during candid moments thinking they were being interviewed by a real news crew.Galifianakis attended Wilkes Central High School, and subsequently attended but did not graduate from North Carolina State University, where he was a communication major.In September 2001, he appeared in one episode of Comedy Central Presents.
