In perhaps the most...interesting political move of his career, Obama appeared Tuesday on Zach Galiflanakis' (sp?) popular video series "Between Two Ferns" where the "short, fat man that smells like Doritos" routinely grills celebrities with dry, scathing questions wrapped in an awkward plastic fern sandwich.
Galiflanakis has interviewd everyone from Natalie Portman to Justin Bieber, and each show is chock full of questions you wish people would actually ask stars. In the President's segment, Zach wonders, "Why would you get the guy who created the Zune to make your website?"
He opens the interview by apologizing for canceling on the Commander in Chief several times, saying, "My mouse pad broke and I had to buy my great aunt some diabetes shoes."
But there was a deliberation in Obama's choice to grin and bear the Hangover stars tense interview. He's been trying to plug the Affordable Care Act to younger generations who feel inreasingly alienated by politicians. "We have to find ways to break through," White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told the New York Times. And by all accounts it's working.
According to NPR.org, within two hours, it had been viewed more than 320,000 times, and the servers at Funny or Die, the comedy site behind the show, seemed to have trouble keeping up with demand.
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