Zach Galifianakis, a comedian and one of the stars of the movie The Hangover, is a native of Wilkes County NC. Yesterday, he was at the Wilkes County Public Library in North Wilkesboro for a children’s reading that drew hundreds of people. He stayed afterward for nearly two hours, posing for photos and signing hats, shirts, posters, money, DVDs, scraps of paper, old Wilkes Central High School yearbooks, and a GQ magazine with his face on the cover reports Journal Now.
The reading was intended for young children, many of whom were familiar with Galifianakis from G-Force, a film in which he champions a team of guinea pigs out to save the world from an evil billionaire.
But word quickly spread in the days leading up to the reading, and the crowd included a lot of people with driver’s licenses, jobs and mortgages.
About 508 people came into the library while Galifianakis was there. A majority of them found their way to the upstairs level, where he read three children’s books aloud.
“I think that books, reading, are so very important because they tell stories, and they let you into the story,” he told the children. “I will start with reading a book called The Hangover.”
The people with driver’s licenses laughed, and Galifianakis said, “No.”
Instead, he read Who is the Beast?, Don’t Forget the Bacon (written by his father) and The Snowy Day, holding the books so the children could see the pictures.
That city and county don’t go together
Just as a note, Winston-Salem isn’t in Wilkes County. I think Wilkes County Public is in North Wilkesboro. Sorry for nitpicking!
Thank you…
for the geography lesson, you are quite right and the headline has been corrected. Glad to have fact-checking readers (of course!) here at LISNews.