THE BORE

General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: benjipwns on March 11, 2014, 05:50:57 AM

Title: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: benjipwns on March 11, 2014, 05:50:57 AM
Well, in a couple hours anyway:
http://www.funnyordie.com/between_two_ferns

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On Tuesday, Mr. Galifianakis will welcome President Obama to the comedy show that he has turned into an Internet cult favorite by making his guests feel awkward and uncomfortable.

The interview with the president, which was recorded two weeks ago, is to debut online at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday. The show’s creators at the website, Funny or Die, are keeping its contents secret until then. White House aides who have seen the six-and-a-half-minute conversation with Mr. Obama say it is in keeping with the show’s spirit.

...

Mike Farah, the executive producer of “Between Two Ferns,” said the website’s creators approached the White House with the idea last summer after Mr. Obama reached out to Hollywood for help with the health care rollout. Mr. Farah said Mr. Obama was a good sport.

“I have to give the president credit that they were willing to trust us,” he said. “They were definitely easier than working with most Hollywood publicists.”
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Oblivion on March 11, 2014, 06:29:34 AM
So Obama messes around with his Hollywood lapdogs while Ukraine burns? Sounds about right.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Brehvolution on March 11, 2014, 09:49:46 AM
Conveniently released the same day as Titanfall to distract the American people from the framerate issues on the Xbone.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Atramental on March 11, 2014, 02:04:07 PM
Zach looked rather tense in that one.  :whew
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 11, 2014, 02:08:36 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/6Sr8J5x.jpg)

http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/03/11/right-wing-media-indignant-over-president-obama/198442 (http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/03/11/right-wing-media-indignant-over-president-obama/198442)

(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k37/maschido/michael-jordan-lol.gif)
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: hampster on March 11, 2014, 02:39:54 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/uElraie.jpg)

:obama
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Brehvolution on March 11, 2014, 03:11:30 PM
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OMG, now the Tea Party & RW Republicans will no longer respect Obama. What will he do without their loyal support?????
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: benjipwns on March 11, 2014, 05:32:58 PM
Early part was pretty lame Obama was playing it too in on the joke, but it got better towards the end. (Absent the dumb healthcare.gov plug obviously, which was just the price of doing business.) Liked the ending after Obama pushed the button.

Of course, I do prefer the ones in general where it's Zach just saying objectionable things over the ones where he spars with somebody. Since that's how it started AND IT SLIGHTLY CHANGED NOW IT SUCKS MASSIVELY ALWAYS APPLIES.

"What's it like to be the last black president?"
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Himu on March 11, 2014, 05:49:57 PM
We are witnessing the fall of a superpower guys
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 11, 2014, 08:37:35 PM
Quote from: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/03/obama-tweets-inside-joke-to-zach-galifianakis-after-funny-or-die-video/
So was President Obama’s interview with the comedian a ploy to tell young people about the health care exchange?

IT IS A MYSTERY
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 11, 2014, 08:48:19 PM
Conveniently released the same day as Titanfall to distract the American people from the framerate issues on the Xbone.

Obama's 9/11
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 11, 2014, 08:48:37 PM
the faux outrage over this shit :rofl

I wish Obama had a press conference tomorrow, just so he could be asked about it and say "you know, [long pause] I'm really not concerned about what the fringe right or Beltway is wringing their hands over every day. I actually have more important things to do."
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 11, 2014, 11:35:32 PM
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By 1 p.m., the video had been viewed 5.5 million times, according to the company’s built-in analytics, equivalent nearly to three times the median audience size for CNN.
http://pando.com/2014/03/11/with-funny-or-die-appearance-obamas-takes-selling-healthcare-reform-to-its-bizarre-logical-conclusion/

(http://i.imgur.com/oitbze8.png)
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 11, 2014, 11:45:09 PM
Nuff said.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: hampster on March 12, 2014, 12:07:42 AM
What Would Lincoln Do?
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: The Sceneman on March 12, 2014, 12:09:19 AM
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By 1 p.m., the video had been viewed 5.5 million times, according to the company’s built-in analytics, equivalent nearly to three times the median audience size for CNN.
http://pando.com/2014/03/11/with-funny-or-die-appearance-obamas-takes-selling-healthcare-reform-to-its-bizarre-logical-conclusion/

(http://i.imgur.com/oitbze8.png)

 :whew
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Brehvolution on March 12, 2014, 12:36:23 AM
Lincoln certainly wouldn't do a BillO interview either.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: The Sceneman on March 12, 2014, 02:49:52 AM
Knowing a minimal amount about American politics, the video was very enjoyable.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: benjipwns on March 12, 2014, 09:35:58 AM
What Would Lincoln Do?
Implement a policy nationwide despite the wishes of the citizens in some states leading to the premature deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans? Suppress civil liberties? Do nothing during the January Uprising in the Ukraine? Not have a functional healthcare website?
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: benjipwns on March 12, 2014, 12:18:02 PM
And yet he still didn't stoop to appearing on an comedy telegraph.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 12, 2014, 12:21:27 PM
What would Lincoln do? Probably freak out when he saw a box with little people inside it.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 12, 2014, 03:36:12 PM
Turns out, Lincoln liked to tell dirty jokes a lot:

Quote from: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/01/14/684142/-Lincoln-X-Rated
Henry Whitney recalled how Lincoln once went after a witness who thought himself a great ladies man:

"...[Lincoln said,] 'there is Busey--he pretends to be a great heart smasher--does wonderful things with the girls--but I'll venture that he never entered his flesh but once and that is when he fell down & stuck his finger in his--'; right out in open Court."
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: helios on March 12, 2014, 03:39:16 PM
 :whoo :sabu

(http://i.imgur.com/VE8zMAn.gif)
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 12, 2014, 04:14:18 PM
tbh I'm really disappointed he didn't give us a rousing defense of the Zune and its sweet desktop software - way to throw your base under the bus Obummer
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: chronovore on March 13, 2014, 09:04:56 PM
:whoo :sabu

(http://i.imgur.com/VE8zMAn.gif)

My god, Busey is terrifying. Hard to believe how charming he was in The Buddy Holly Story.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: benjipwns on March 14, 2014, 04:17:27 AM
He was amazing on Celebrity Apprentice. One of the many people who that show was made for.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Rufus on March 14, 2014, 07:15:17 AM
:whoo :sabu

(http://i.imgur.com/VE8zMAn.gif)

My god, Busey is terrifying. Hard to believe how charming he was in The Buddy Holly Story.
Brain damage will do that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_busey#Motorcycle_accident_and_brain_damage

Ride a (motor)bike without a helmet, brehs.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 26, 2014, 12:34:05 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-xvQjpBQU

:what
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Brehvolution on March 26, 2014, 12:35:38 PM
Brought to you by Project Veritas.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 26, 2014, 07:34:40 PM
Hilarious, very well done.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 26, 2014, 07:36:00 PM
Hilarious, very well done.

(http://i.imgur.com/Tu5ZxK0.gif)
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: benjipwns on March 26, 2014, 07:40:01 PM
I was going to ask you to post that.
Title: Re: Obama on Between Two Ferns
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 26, 2014, 07:42:12 PM
We need a D'Souza emote, please.