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"A few short years ago, Zach Galifianakis&amp;#x2019; fanbase was mostly made up of critics and the comedy cognoscenti. Now even your grandmother has grown familiar with his bushy bearded face, a fixture on billboards everywhere. As overnight as his fame may seem, though, Galifianakis has been quietly paving a path toward stardom since his sitcom days in the mid-Nineties. Here are the most significant stops he&amp;#x2019;s had along the way, some more hysterical than others &amp;#x2013; but nearly all of them showing that the prickly comic with the deadliest deadpan deserves every bit of his success.\r\nBy Joe Berkowitz with Matthew Perpetua\r\nRELATED:\r\n&amp;#x2022; Choice Quotes From Rolling Stone&amp;apos;s Zach Galifianakis Cover Story\r\n&amp;#x2022; Zach Galifianakis, Reluctant Superstar: The Rolling Stone Cover Story\r\n&amp;#x2022; A History of Comedy Stars on the Cover of Rolling Stone\r\n&amp;#x2022; Review: The Hangover Part II\r\n&amp;#x2022; Review: The Hangover"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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