Mock the Vote

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis hit the Campaign trail

Emily Shur for TIME

Zach Galifinakis and Will Ferrell hit the campaign trail in the movie "The Campaign"

Zach Galifianakis is lying on the floor of New Orleans' English Turn Country Club, worrying. These are the two things Galifianakis does most on the set of The Campaign, usually at the same time: physically relax and mentally panic. Right now, Galifianakis is fretting that the jokes in this scene aren't funny enough. That the insults about his character, Marty Huggins, are too soft. Being in a Flock of Seagulls cover band in high school would have been way too cool for Huggins, the effeminate, Cosby-sweater-wearing tourist-center director who is running for Congress in North Carolina against smarmy, philandering incumbent Cam...

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