Remember a couple of years ago when Between Two Ferns was just another wonderfully enjoyable web series starring a favorite but little-known comedian interviewing whoever was available? Now it’s a full-fledged viral marketing tool for the full-fledged movie stars that are in it, and no one is a little-known comedian anymore. This week’s new episode came to my attention in a publicity email from Paramount for Dinner for Schmucks. (Last spring a similar thing happened when Zach interviewed Bradley Cooper on the eve of The Hangover, but even that was a different time and a different episode of Between Two Ferns.) Still, the world spins on its axis. And you can’t get mad at it, you guys. It’s great! If this is what viral marketing is these days, PLEASE MAKE MORE VIRAL MARKETING, FACELESS UNCARING CORPORATIONS. If anything, my hope is that this can just become an honest-to-goodness real show on television. Zach Galifianakis could interview a box of soap with corrupt Big Soap money falling out of his breast pocket and I would watch it. Gladly.

Dinner for Schmucks, in theaters July 30, 2010!

Comments (27)
  1. I’m watching this in my Gap Premium Fucking Denim Jeans. EXPLORE THE STREAM.

  2. This Guy Knows How to Make the BEST Ice Cream Soup

  3. Hey Gabe? Remember how you felt when singing telegrams kept interrupting Amos ‘n’ Andy?

    “Will these infernal telegrams never cease?”, I bet you asked to no one in particular.

  4. Blah blah blah NO LOGO aside, everybody has to put food on his or her blog, and I could watch Steve Carell say “fuck you” all day long.

  5. Aww, he looks like a mini Don Draper.

  6. Why am I not important enough to get publicity emails from movie companies?

  7. Oh, what a wonderful way to start the day.

  8. At least we now know how videogum paid to send Gabe to ComiCon. With jeans!

  9. This is great. And here’s Fabrice Fabrice interviewing Steve Carell: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2e1ebf512f/fabrice-fabrice-interviews-steve-carell — “You should put me on the orifice.”

  10. 2010 the year Tim and Eric broke

  11. I put off watching this clip all day because I was afraid it wouldn’t be funny. I am afraid no longer.

  12. Anyone remember the short lived “Late World with Zach Galifianakis”? That’s what first turned me on to Zach and when Zach first turned me on. Wait, what?

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