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Funnyman Zack Galifianakis in a scene from his latest blockbuster, "The Hangover Part II."Zach Galifianakis is the new King of Clueless.
In a laugh-packed cover story in the new issue of Rolling Stone, the bearded, pot-smoking star of "The Hangover Part II" tells writer Josh Eells that when it comes to his comedy, "inappropriateness is funny to me. ... Rudeness is hilarious."
He isn't kidding.
Among the more choice moments of inappropriate behavior detailed in the story:
When Bradley Cooper called up Galifianakis to say he'd broken up with his girlfriend (not named, but given the timing, it's Renee Zellweger), the comic's response was, "She saw 'Limitless!' " (Cooper starred in the thriller earlier this spring.)
At the Vanity Fair/Bloomberg after-party following the White House Correspondents' Dinner, at the French ambassador's residence in Washington, Galifianakis was introduced to "Glee" star Jane Lynch and her wife, and "Modern Family" actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and his beau.
"Nice to meet you," he told the foursome. "I didn't know it was Gay Night by the swimming pool."
Sean Penn got a bizarre response from the 41-year-old North Carolina native when he called to offer him a part in the 2007 movie he directed, "Into the Wild."
"Galifianakis told Penn he "had an appointment at Arby's," Eells writes, and "to send my Jews the script."
Even the hirsute cut-up's life offstage is funny. According to the mag, when Galifianakis was living in New York in the mid-'90s, he worked for a "drag-queen restaurant owned by Kurdish rebels" and liked to "get drunk and wander through the subway tunnels at night."
When fans approach him on the street to ask if he's "that guy from 'Hangover,' " he replies: "No, I hate that guy. I think he's a terrible actor. And he's fat." (The story notes that Galifianakis is trying to lose 20 pounds by September.)
Cooper tells the magazine that his co-star is able to get away with the outrageous statements because, beneath the comedy, he's "the kindest motherf?er."
Old-fashioned, too. Soon after raunchy pop star Ke emailed Galifianakis asking to have a drink, he ran into her at a bar.
"She was sitting by herself, and I walked up to her and said, 'Listen, I got your email. Your music is really bad!' " Galifianakis tells the magazine. "I don't know who listens to it," he continued, "but I imagine it's, like, 6-year-olds ? and it's a bad message."
Actually, we don't think that's inappropriate at all.
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