Maybe you’ve stumbled across comedian Zach Galifianakis’ homemade video for Kanye West’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” and thought to yourself, “Oh great, some lame comedian trying to make a name for himself piggy-backing off of someone more famous.” Well, you’d be wrong on 2 counts.
For one thing, though it might not show too much through the video, Galifianakis is actually quite funny — he played Alan Finger on the short-lived Comedy Central vehicle Dog Bites Man (where he created a song called “Come On And Get It (Up In Dem Guts)”), and as a stand-up comic he has a great talent for goofy non-sequiturs (my personal favorite — “3 years ago, my sister was diagnosed with multiple personalities, and there’s nothing funny about that. But she phoned me the other day… and my caller ID exploded.”).
And secondly, Zach’s take on Kanye’s video — shot on Zach’s farm — is actually Kanye-approved. From an interview with Impose Magazine back in June (courtesy of The Fader):
Q: Are you into much hip hop these days?
Zach: Not really, even though strangely I’m shooting Kanye West’s new music video here at the farm. He asked me to do it. He doesn’t want to be in it, but he sent me this new song and then asked me to make a video for him here at my farm. He saw me do stand up a few weeks ago here in Los Angeles, and we chatted after the show. He had seen me do these other music videos; I did one for Fiona Apple and I did one of my own where I sing an Anita Baker song. So he saw the Anita Baker one and asked me if I would come up with something. So we’ve been going back and forth trying to figure out what I’m going to do with the song. So I’m figuring that out here at my farm.
And if you’re still thinking about calling “bullshit” after all of this, the video is viewable at Kanye’s official site. This means that, of the 3 videos that Kanye has released to promote Graduation, the most “normal” one is the one where’s basically just rapping in the middle of the desert.
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