Anyone who’s familiar with the bearded comedic stylings of Zach Galifianakis knows that’s he an unpredictable fellow, often wont to show up in the funniest of situations, in the strangest of places. Take, for example, the video below in which Zach is nestled among a sea of super-excited soccer moms in the audience at a taping of Ellen, and as the show producers encourage the crowd to do their crazy “funtime party dance”, Zach just claps uncomfortably. While the video ends prior to the incident’s ultimate conclustion, members of the A Special Thing comedy board claim that Zach was removed from the premises due either to a) his beard, or b) to his unwillingness to have a little fun today. Is the crowd dance party at Ellen really the fun, carefree environment we see every day on the show, or is there a dark, fascist underbelly of forced enthusiasm lurking just below the surface? We may never know…

(via CC Insider via The Coming)

UPDATE FROM ZACH HIMSELF: The story is that Ellen was watching me in her dressing room – and asked security if I looked weird or suspicious or something like that. My friend who works on the show overheard her and told Ms. Degeneris that I was a friendly – there is a little more to the story but I will keep that secret. But I was not at all asked to leave. If you do not dance with the creeps you are seen as a creep.