Zach Galifianakis Reveals Why He Quit Drinking | CONAN on TBS

you look fantastic uh you have uh you've lost a you've lost some weight around two ounces um [Laughter] i was gonna say about two ounces yeah um no i stopped drinking and i just kind of put the weight off really so you you stop drinking and the weight just because they say that's yeah that can really make a huge difference yeah i was having uh you know a lot of vodka with sausage and uh was the sausage in the drink yeah oh wow delicious yeah but bad for you bad for you uh swizzle sausage i was getting in too much trouble with the drink and stuff so i just kind of was there an incident that sort of uh cause that everyone when they if they stop drinking there's usually one thing that happens that makes them think okay now i gotta cut back this was about 20 things um one night i was walking that's it that's the story you just were like i've got to stop walking this walking thing is terrible um i i was walking through new york and i was walking over towards one of the bridges to walk home and i was in the lower east side and i had gotten into the whiskey that night and i was listening to my headphones and this guy in a jag jaguar jaguar war how do you say it jaguar yeah one of those cut me off when i was crossing uh ludlow street yeah now if it had been a chevy lumina i wouldn't have cared right but this is a jag and some fancy in there and uh yeah and um so as it cut me off i hit the car as hard as i can with my hands just like bam hey i was saying man zach you're real cool yeah and i had some whiskey i got my headphones on i just hit a jaguar yeah and i you know i just keep walking and tap on my shoulder about 20 seconds later and i turn around and it's two six foot six guys uh 12 by 12. and um they were cubed they were cute but anyway there were two huge six foot six guys and i turn around i take my headphones off and they they both at the same time spit my face you're kidding and i don't know if you've ever been spitting your face non-sexually but [Laughter] all i remember is being so stunned and they walked away i didn't really even say anything because i didn't know what to say and i remember reaching into a trash can and grabbing a beer bottle and yeah and saying to myself out loud nobody spits in zach galifianakis's face i threw the beer bottle at the car and it missed and that's my story yeah i wish [Applause] but that's one of the reasons i you decided to cut back yeah cut back did the guys the guys didn't recognize they spit on you they obviously didn't recognize you what about me now i was wearing a nixon mask well this story's changing a lot no i don't think no they didn't recognize now if they did recognize me they probably would have done more than spit my face yeah but i'm curious do you like uh you know we've known you for a really long time and we've seen you blow up and become this big star do you like being famous and being recognized uh i don't and i understand the irony of saying that on a talk show um but i i don't i don't i haven't i've had trouble i'm kind of private and i try to if i see a pack of teenagers walking my way forget it i will run right yeah you'll run the other way run the other way for sure yeah it's it's it's a tricky thing to be noticed do you notice that there's a kind of like is a certain kind of person that notices you more than well there's never anybody wearing a dr smock it's always somebody like with a who-farted t-shirt [Laughter] never a surgeon never a surgeon

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Length: 4min 17sec (257 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 31 2020