{"id":1214168,"date":"2022-01-13T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214168"},"modified":"2022-01-13T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T18:19:25","slug":"actor-zach-galifianakis-calls-americas-obsession-with-celebrity-a-mental-illness-stars-should-be-mocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actor-zach-galifianakis-calls-americas-obsession-with-celebrity-a-mental-illness-stars-should-be-mocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Zach Galifianakis Calls \u2018America\u2019s Obsession with Celebrity\u2019 a &#039;Mental Illness\u2019: Stars \u2018Should Be Mocked\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factor-zach-galifianakis-calls-americas-obsession-with-celebrity-a-mental-illness-stars-should-be-mocked%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214168&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Actor and <i>The<\/i>&nbsp;<em>Hangover&nbsp;<\/em>star&nbsp;Zach Galifianakis believes \u201cAmerica\u2019s obsession\u201d with celebrities is a \u201cmental illness\u201d and celebrities of all types \u201cshould be mocked\u201d without fear or favor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCelebrity in general should be mocked,\u201d the <em>Hangover<\/em> star&nbsp;shared Monday on Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7cN4gUxVujLgKXrRBToQjI?si=6Hy8plQFTG63hPNB2ee2iw\">podcast<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cConan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend,\u201d released this week.&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s all ridiculous. It\u2019s how we ended up with a celebrity president. America\u2019s obsession with celebrity is a mental illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19471322\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/the-hangover-alan-top.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19471322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/the-hangover-alan-top.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Warner Bros. Pictures<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>His remarks stemmed from a discussion about sit-down with then-<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">President Barack Obama<\/span>&nbsp;in 2014 on the Funny or Die satirical interview show <em>Between Two Ferns.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just thought it was so funny all these celebrity actor people always get interviewed politely, and I just thought there was something funny about not being polite,\u201d Galifianakis observed.&nbsp;\u201cIt was kind of a fantasy thing, man, if I could just get an interview show where I can roll my eyes at what they\u2019re saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19470498\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1347597120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19470498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1347597120-746x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"746\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Zach Galifianakis and Jack Dylan Grazer arrive at the U.S. premiere of Ron\u2019s Gone Wrong at El Capitan Theatre on October 19, 2021 in Hollywood, California. (Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images for Disney)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Galifianakis admitted to being \u201cincredibly nervous\u201d ahead of the taping with Obama at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>He also recalled suffering from seating a foul up right before his chat with the 44th&nbsp;president that resulted in the pair&nbsp;trading barbs with one another and jokes about spider bites and basketball, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2014\/03\/11\/zach-galifianakis-interviews-obama-in-funny-or-die-show-between-two-ferns\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was waiting in one of these rooms, a map room. I was sitting in a chair that I didn\u2019t know was roped off,\u201d he told O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-incontent_desk_2-wrapper\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper wrapper\">\n<p>\u201cSo this security guy came up to me he goes, \u2018What are you doing? Don\u2019t you see that chair is roped off [that] you\u2019re sitting in? And I said, \u2018I\u2019m so sorry.\u2019 And I moved.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The security guard entered again before issuing seating directions: \u201cHe came back in and he goes, \u2018You can\u2019t sit in that chair, either.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really kind of nervous about it,\u201d Galifianakis said.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and The\u00a0Hangover\u00a0star\u00a0Zach Galifianakis believes \u201cAmerica\u2019s obsession\u201d with celebrities is a \u201cmental illness\u201d and celebrities of all types \u201cshould be mocked\u201d without fear or favor. \u201cCelebrity in general should be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}