Gallo's Humor

Filmmaker Vincent Gallo isn't finding one man's obsessive prank very funny. Page Six reports that when he changed his New York number to a California one, the man who received his old digits began impersonating him. He says, "When the guy would get calls that were for me, instead of telling them they had the wrong number, he'd play along and pretend to be me." To be fair, who wouldn't do that?

However, now things have gotten a little bit out of control, and Gallo says the insanity has moved online, with his impersonator even creating a Gmail account; "He screwed up a number of business deals for me and also misled girls in certain ways. He was trying to create intimacy and would say strange things." This coming from a man who sells his sperm online.

Last week an editor at Vice got the faux-Gallo when she called to invite him to that screening of Where the Wild Things Are at the Tribeca Grand; allegedly the impostor requested her photo be emailed first, which rightfully creeped her out—and we'd imagine it takes a lot to creep out a Vice staffer.

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By Jen Carlson in News on October 5, 2009 4:42 PM

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kai von krautland

SAME story takes place in daniel kehlmann's latest book "ruhm"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kehlmann

strange coincidence

itsourpleasuretoserveyou

"Oh no, i said Vincent Callo...with a C"

Sommelier

Ahhh.... the OTHER "C" word!

Migstradamus

A friend had Madonna's old Manhattan number in 1999 and while she never impersonated her, for a while she got some good answering machine messages from various famous folks. Should have saved them.

Sommelier

Impersonate Vincent Gallo? How could anyone act like a big enough douchebag to pull that off? They must be at least 50 times the actor that Gallo will ever be.

uncleeddie

Awww poor Vincent Gallo.

sowhtifithppnsitwll

I AM A GALLO..who the hell is Vincent?

mrguy

PS nice raffi-inspired graphic there.

mrguy

there's no difference between vincent gallo and somebody doing a parody of vincent gallo; the man is a parody of himself.

he should take his mind off this and focus on something else, perhaps a new offering in his online store, like a sampler pack of vials of his different bodily fluids.

CR

Gallo is known to be a scumbag and liar who will use his "celebrity" to rip you off. If you've got something that he wants (let's say a guitar or a bike or girlfriend) he'll basically steal it from you one way or another. How could this fake Gallo be any worse?