New Delhi, May 3 -- It's odd to see Zach Galifianakis being sweet.

A uniquely gifted comedian with significant acting range - from The Hangover movies to the Baskets TV series - Galifianakis has, in recent years, become known for the insulting and underprepared interviewer persona he puts on for his YouTube series Between Two Ferns. On it he asked Barack Obama how it felt to be the last black President ("Seriously?" Obama responded) and told Brad Pitt, "You play a lot of people that are Nazi hunters, which is weird to me." "Why do you say that?", Pitt asked. "Because you look like Hitler's dream," said Galifianakis.

It's a shtick we've seen before - and Galifianakis owes a larger debt to Martin Short's offensively ignorant interviewer J...