Scott Aukerman Goes ‘Between Two Ferns’

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🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Scott Aukerman is the host of Comedy Bang! Bang!, co-creator of Funny or Die’s Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis and now the writer and director of Netflix’s Between Two Ferns: The Movie. In this episode, we talk about how he landed so many huge celebrity cameos for the new film, what it was like directing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and—because it’s my favorite thing he’s ever done—making the Analyze Phish podcast with the late Harris Wittels.

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0:42.3	I'm the host of the show, and my guest today is someone named Bradley Cooper.
0:49.3	So excited to be here. Thank you.
0:57.1	You're in a comedy movie right now.
0:58.8	Let's talk comedy movies.
1:00.0	I love wedding crashers.
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1:08.2	Hello and welcome to The Last Laugh.
1:10.3	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. And this week on the show, I talked to comedian, podcaster, and director Scott Ackerman. Scott is the host of the very popular Comedy Bang Bang podcast. And as we talked about on this show, I actually wrote an oral history of that podcast for its 500th episode a few years ago. I got to talk to Scott and so many
1:28.7	other great comedians who have been on that show over the years. At the same time, Scott has
1:33.5	been making Between Two Ferns with Zach Alfenakis for over a decade. And now he's directed
1:39.3	Between Two Ferns, The Movie, which started streaming on Netflix this past Friday.
1:49.4	In our talk today, there are so many good stories about the many celebrity cameos in that movie, as well as what it was like to direct Obama and Hillary Clinton and a lot of other
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