Between the ferns ben stiller biography

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Zach Galifianakis - Host : Yeah then it'd be better because it'd be "been there done that. Zach Galifianakis - Host : Are you making fun of people from the south? Ben Stiller : Not at all. Zach Galifianakis - Host : Because people from there wouldn't like that, they're stupid enough to go to your fucking movies. Zach Galifianakis - Host : [looking at his notes] Bad start, what are the things that get on your nerves when people ask you to do in interviews because I thought it'd be cool to ask you to do the "blue steel look" from "Jewlander.

Ben Stiller : [confused] From what? Zach Galifianakis - Host : [intentionally insulting him] From Jewlander, blue steel look, do you do that a lot? Ben Stiller : You mean "Jew steel? Zach Galifianakis - Host : Is it "Jew steal? Ben Stiller : [intentionally insulting Zach and his show "Between Two Ferns"] It just feels to me a lot of the time that there's people doing so much, putting so much effort into producing a series or a show that hardly anybody is going to see, do you know what I mean?

Zach Galifianakis - Host : What are you "impluging"? I don't even know what you're talking about? Ben Stiller : I'm here to talk about my new movie Greenberg. Zach Galifianakis - Host : [looking at his notes] So here is a clip from Greenberg. Ben Stiller : [after Zach plays an audio clip, sarcastically to Zach] Maybe next time you can get a video clip to show too, I think it'd make more sense.

Zach Galifianakis - Host : I thought about that. Ben Stiller : And then what? Reinforcing that disconnect is the "look" of "Between Two Ferns ," which is literally presented as host and guest sitting between two ferns. That, along with the old-school graphics makes the whole thing feel like a terrible cable access production Porter, two comedy lifers who have written for "Mr.

Show with Bob and David ," among other things. It's easily one of the most popular web series of all time, and probably the most well-known and beloved thing ever produced by comedy clearinghouse Funny or Die. Here's a look behind the mystery of the delightfully strange and often off-putting "Between Two Ferns. You know, just kind of making fun of the sycophantic interviewers that kiss the Hollywood machine," Galifianakis told Entertainment Weekly.

I didn't want it to be mean-spirited. I wanted the people I was interviewing to be in on the joke. Most episodes of "Between Two Ferns" are a delight for audience, host, and guest. Zach Galifianakis mildly insults them or their work, or alludes to some painful detail from their personal life. For example, when Brad Pitt was a guest on the show, Galifianakis asked about how he felt the first time he saw his then wife, Angelina Jolie.

It's reasonable to excuse Pitt if he reacted negatively, but he kept his cool. He may not even rank among the most unfortunate guest experiences in the history of "Between Two Ferns. Willis is an intense guy, and Aukerman told Splitsider the episode left him with "an intense fear that I was going to set Hollywood star Zach Galifianakis on fire and burn him alive.

Between the ferns ben stiller biography

Also not a great experience: the Sean Penn episode. I haven't seen Sean Penn since then, but quite honestly, I'm afraid to ever see him again. Some of today's biggest and brightest stars have sat with Zach Galifianakis on "Between Two Ferns ," but easily the biggest "get" in show history was President Barack Obama. Producer Scott Aukerman told Insider that he and his staff "had put it out there" that they wanted to interview Obama because they thought "it was a really stupid, funny idea.

Finally, inthings worked out and the "Ferns" guys flew to Washington D. So why did the most powerful man in the free world agree to appear on a web show? He wanted to use the platform to promote the health care exchanges, the online arm of his "Obamacare" legislation that helped people find insurance. It workedtoo — 11 million people watched the episode on the first day it went live, and traffic to "HealthCare.

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