If you’re a fan of “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis,” the fake public-access talk show that Zach Galifianakis has been hosting online, for three to six minutes a pop, over the …
McConaughey doesn’t have to say anything in response . His face says it all. Then again, we’re aware, after 10 years of this, that the sight of celebrities taking umbrage at Zach’s Stuttering John inquiries has become its own form of performance. To watch “Between Two Ferns” is to play along with the stars playing along with Galifianakis’ playful skewering-but-hardly-puncturing of the Hollywood PR machine.
The McConaughey segment ends with a broken ceiling pipe and a studio flood , at which point Zach, by order of his Funny or Die boss, Will Ferrell , is forced to drive around the country hunting down celebrities so he can shoot 10 episodes of “Between Two Ferns” in just two weeks. If he succeeds, he’ll be rewarded by getting his own network talk show.
He asks a benumbed Keanu Reeves, “On a scale of one to 100, how many words do you know?” He introduces the fuzzy-white-bearded David Letterman as the anorexic Santa Claus, and asks Brie Larson how old she was when she first got her period. He asks Paul Rudd what advice he would give “to a young actor who wants to hide his Jewishness as well as you have.
“Between Two Ferns: The Movie,” like the web-episode curio that spawned it, is a specimen of squirm comedy, though with less of an edge than it pretends to have. The celebrities who come on have no idea what they’re going to be asked, so in a sense they get ambushed. But it’s not like they don’t know what they’re in for.
At its best, though, the humor can still slice and draw a small drop of blood. Essentially, it’s the cut-to-a-celebrity’s-weak-point humor of a Comedy Central Roast, served up in bite-size nuggets. And Galifianakis is the perfect overgrown delivery boy for these sorts of scathing anti-feel-good yocks; his passive-aggressive disaffection keeps everyone, including the audience, off guard.
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