Comedy Bang! Bang!: Zach Galifianakis
"Zach Galifianakis Wears A One-Armed Jacket" (Episode 3.04)
Even before Comedy Bang! Bang! had its third season premiere, IFC had already renewed the show for a fourth season with a gigantic episode order of forty episodes. Clearly the network has a big future planned for the series. Yet with “Zach Galifianakis Wears a One-Armed Jacket,” we jump to the end of the CBB odyssey a decade into the future, as we get a look at the series finale. As you’d expect, the end will be just as strange as everything that has come before it—and just as funny too.
Every episode of Comedy Bang! Bang! should be a treat for viewers and listeners of the podcast, but “Zach Galifianakis” is truly filled with fan service. As this glimpse at the future begins, there’s a round-up of characters played by Matt Besser, Jason Mantzoukas, John Carroll Lynch, Neil Campbell and Paul Rust that’ll make absolutely no sense if you haven’t seen their previous episodes.
Ten years into the future, the show and the world in general have changed so much. Reggie Watts is no longer the bandleader of the show, with a pregnant Jenny Lewis now talking his place. Throughout the episode, we learn that there is a multi-continental war and mutant bats are plaguing North America. Even so, the general premise of the show hasn’t changed all that much, which is probably a good thing.
CBB decides it should end where it began, with its first guess Zach Galifianakis. But Galifianakis has come on some hard times. He’s fresh off of a scandal, in which he hit 35 people with his car, and has now also created the world’s most popular condiment (something that goes on everything from sushi to uncooked pork). And while it seems like he’s missing an arm, the biggest laugh of the episode comes later when we discover that he’s just been hiding it under his jacket for no discernible reason.
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