Zach Galifianakis – comedian – lip-syncs to a Kanye song. Strange, perhaps. Possibly with the potential to become pretty funny, but not unheard of .. until you hear that Kanye West actually requested for Zach to do it. Damn, that dude mad, yo!

On June 1, 2007 I got a one line email from Zach that said, “this sounds like a joke but it is true. Kayne West wants me to lip sync his new video. can you fly to nc to shoot it? ” There was very little discussion in advance other than that. Hiring the cloggers was Zach’s idea, and Inman was able to track them down. For all the ridiculousness you see here, I have to say we took the song very seriously. We asked ourselves, “What if two farmers from North Carolina set out to make their own Kanye West music video…and succeeded?” Special thanks to singer/actor Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy) for his inspired turn as the inbred cousin. This was my first real use of slow motion lip syncing, which is a common trope in music videos, but reliably neat. Special thanks to the rowdy group of 12 year olds hanging out in front of the library in downtown Sparta who started yelling “Whacha filming NERD!” while I was all alone with the production gear.

Weird Al’s ever popular nerdcore song is still a classic in its own right. This will take you back a few years.

A song about geek love. It might be old, but it’s still good.

I found this video on FARK. Classic example of nerd-dancing including the obligatory Star Trek T-shirt.