Zuzu
Galifianakis's work often featured his Pit Bull, Zuzu, who died in August 2010. Zuzu had been named after a character in the film It's A Wonderful Life, the daughter of George Bailey – who gave him the flower petals to carry in his pocket. In early 2011, Galifianakis said in an NPR interview, "the reason the Zuzu cartoons are funny, or any cartoons that anthropomorphize an animal like that, that place it in a human dynamic, is that relationships with animals are generally good." In an August 2010 Washington Post tribute to Zuzu, Galifianakis had written: "she died a week short of 13, rendering me more human than I had ever cared to be."
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