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Between Two Ferns

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
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Genre Comedy, talk show
Presented by Zach Galifianakis
No. of episodes 21 (and 1 special) (list of episodes)
Release
Original network Funny or Die
Comedy Central (special)
Picture format 16:9 HDTV
Original release January 4, 2008 – present
External links
Website

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is a talk show hosted by comedian Zach Galifianakis and featuring celebrity guests. Episodes last several minutes, in which the interviewer (Galifianakis) and guest trade barbs and insults. In addition to the online series, an additional episode was filmed for Comedy Central as a television special.

As the show's title suggests, host Zach Galifianakis conducts celebrity interviews sitting with his guests between two potted ferns. The set intentionally resembles a low-budget amateur production for public-access television, with on-screen graphics containing deliberate comical errors. For example, in a 2014 episode, Brad Pitt's name is spelled "Bart Pit" and his film 12 Years a Slave — the winner of the 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture — entitled "12 Years a Salve."

Galifianakis maintains an awkward and often antagonistic demeanor with his guests, asking them bizarre, inappropriate or insulting questions mixed with offhand non-sequiturs. The guests' responses are mostly improvised, despite pre-interviews. Episodes often include a segment in which Galifianakis awkwardly interrupts his guests to promote a sponsor's product—examples include bananas, the video game Need for Speed: Shift, and (most frequently) Speed Stick deodorant; some advertisements, like the graphics, are based around aspects of or events related to the interviewee. The episode featuring Hillary Clinton included one of Donald Trump's campaign commercials.

Several episodes also feature a button placed on a table between Galifianakis and his guest which, when pressed by Galifianakis, does various things such as play music or drop slime from the ceiling. Guests frequently act antagonistic or inappropriately towards Galifianakis as well, most often calling him fat and making fat jokes about him, mocking him losing his virginity late, or behaving drunk or threatening or pretending to ignore him or getting physical with him or walking out of the interview early.


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