This morning, FunnyorDie.com aired a very special
episode of Between Two Ferns, the absurdist web series
hosted by actor Zach Galifianakis. On today’s episode,
Galifianakis sat down with none other than President Barack
Obama. The whole thing starts innocuously enough, with Obama
poking fun at The Hangover films and Galifianakis dissing
Obama’s basketball skills. But then, almost inconspicuously, things
take a turn for the infuriating.
About half way through, Obama begins his plug for the Affordable
Care Act, which is ostensibly the reason for this particular POTUS
appearance. Funny or Die is a hotbed of Millennials, whom Obama
urges to visit the Healthcare.gov and get insured.
“Healthcare.gov works great now, and millions of Americans have
already gotten health insurance plans,” says Obama (in one of the
video’s more humorous bits). Then Galifianakis, feigning boredom,
asks, “Is this what they mean by drones?”
Zing! Get it? Because the Obama administration
kills innocent people with drones? And now Obama is droning on?
AHAHAHA—wait. That is not really very funny at all. In fact, it
seems kind of sociopathic to joke about.
Obama ignores the comment and continues talking about how young
people should purchase insurance. He gives folks an 800 number they
can call if they don’t have computers. “Uh, I don’t have a phone.
I’m off the grid. I don’t want you people looking at my text, if
you know what I mean,” responds Galifianakis.
“First of all, Zach, nobody’s interested in your texts,” Obama
quips.
It was a lighthearted little rebuttal, which Obama played for
humor with his tone and timing. But, of course, the National
Security Agency is not only interested in Zach’s texts
but the
text messages of millions of others, too.
Predictably, the Twitter response to President Obama’s sit down
with Galifianakis has been
largely positive. This is the kind of appearance that will
definitely earn him cool points with a lot of the digerati. I was,
begrudgingly, almost taken in too—until the drone and NSA spying
comments, that is. When you remember what kind of civil liberty
abuses the Obama administration is perpetrating, it’s kind of hard
to be amused, even between two ferns.
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