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PREACH IT! In which Zach Galifianakis does our Mel Gibson preaching for us

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If we weren’t Zach Galifianakis fans before, we sure are now.

For those of you who use the Internet only for chain letters and kitten videos, let us fill you in: Mel Gibson was supposed to be tapped for a comeback cameo in the upcoming sequel to ‘The Hangover.’ Director Todd Phillips had selected Gibson to play a tattoo artist living in Bangkok. Everything was set.

Until the rest of the production — the people who don’t breathe the rarified air reserved for producers and directors — found out about the decision and pointed out the obvious. Which is that Gibson is kind of a bigoted, misogynistic vole of a human being who, maybe, should be in someone else’s movie.

Now we hear that Gibson is being replaced with Liam Neeson. There’s also a good indication of who led the vanguard against Gibson. And the clue comes via a certain star’s interview in a comedy podcast.

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‘I’m in a deep protest right now with a movie I’m working on, up in arms about something,’ Galifianakis said during a recent edition of Scott Aukerman’s Comedy Death-Ray. But I can’t get the guys to [listen] ... I’m not making any leeway.

‘It has something to do with a movie I’m working on, yeah. I’ll tell you about it later. It’s very frustrating.’

That frustration apparently didn’t last long. Phillips has since put out a statement confirming that he probably should have listened to his worker bees a little sooner, and now Gibson will have to find some other place to make his comeback.

Maybe Jodie Foster can find Gibson some additional work.

— Leslie Gornstein

Related dispatches from the Ministry of Gossip:

Report: Mel Gibson will have a cameo in ‘Hangover 2’

Jodie Foster isn’t throwing Mel Gibson under the bus [poll]

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