Zach met the older lady at a laundromat that he used 20 years ago. They became friends and he learned she was basically homeless a couple years ago. Zach rented her a small one bedroom apartment. 
Renee Zellweger furnished it for her.
It’s nice reading something positive about a celebrity. They made a difference in this 87-year-old lady’s twilight years.
Doesn’t surprise me.
Zach is a friend of a friend of mine and really is a nice down-to-Earth guy. As successful as he’s been over the last few years, he’s still really uncomfortable with fame and attention, and he often acts out towards reporters when they’re asking him dumb questions (by giving bizarre answers) but supposedly he’s a really cool guy.
I enjoyed Brian William’s chat with him recently on Rock Central. He’s just a funny, goofy guy that completely ‘doesn’t get’ the whole Hollywood star scene.
I’ve had a crush on Zach Galifianakis for awhile now (much to the bemusement of some of my friends) and this just cements what I already suspected about him. 
My favorite Galifianakis joke, from his stand-up:
It’s so ridiculous and he delivers the question so serious and deadpan, I lose it every time.
The article is worth the read if you haven’t heard of this yet.
A quick summary is that before this actor was known, he met a homeless woman and turned her life around. Before he was rich and famous. Just because he’s that kind of guy. But read the actual article!
As a person who was unemployed and homeless for a time during the latest recession, I know how it feels. Nobody was hiring, and nothing is more demeaning than asking for jobs, hat in hand, when you just asked those same people for a job two weeks ago, and you’ve already asked everyone in town several times. But what’s worse is turning to those you owe money to and telling them you’ve done your best, but you have nothing, not even money for your own food needs. After being lent emergency cash from someone I’ve never even met, an online buddy, I was able to move out of that area, get my car fixed, and get a job. Now I’m in management, and my roommate is having similar difficulties. Rather than kicking him out on the street, I’m paying both halves of the rent and utilities, and lending him my car to drive around town looking for work. Money is tight but it is what it is.
The only thing that really helps folks that are down on their luck, is a helping hand up from another person. And granted, not everyone wants help and not everyone appreciates it, but some do. I salute folks like this actor, who realize that not everyone who is homeless or unemployed is that way because they can’t handle money, or don’t want to work, or have a drug problem. Perfectly ordinary people end up there through bad luck alone, or economic disasters.
When you have pride, you don’t ask for help and you don’t immediately ask for a handout, but sometimes it doesn’t matter, and you just run out of savings. Our society is not set up in such a way that folks with no money, no address, and no transportation can easily acquire help. Sometimes these things preclude you from moving, or finding work in your area, and then you’re out of options. Then depression comes, and you think about suicide.
Then someone you don’t even know offers to help you turn your life around. And you don’t squander that opportunity. And you promise to pay them back if you ever can, and you make sure you help someone else if you have the chance. Even if it’s an inconvenience.
Anyway. Probably used too many words once again to make my point, which was simple- I salute Zack Galifinakis for his kindness toward those less fortunate. Having been on both sides of that particular situation now, I truly appreciate what he’s doing.
Correction: Seems I missed the part where it said he did it two years ago. So my timing is off. Still, very nice gesture.
Reported, because there is another thread about this.
Merged two threads.
A class guy.