he is the co-creator of between two ferns with zach galifinakis. you ve now entered tv history. you have directed the president of the united states in a comedy scene at least. not seen the likes of which nixon on laugh in. had he seen any of your episodes of this before? i do not know. i heard that he had, but not being him, i couldn t actually say with any kind of truthfulness that he has. i hope that he has. the image of the president watching our dumb little internet show is very funny to me. yeah. it is. but watching, it wasn t clear to me there that he was completely, you know, kind of enjoying the joke. i think he was getting the joke,
condition. joining me now, the director of the episode of between the ferns with president barack obama, scott aukerman. he is the co-creator of between two ferns with zach galifinakis. you ve now entered tv history. you have directed the president of the united states in a comedy scene at least. not seen the likes of which nixon on laugh in. had he seen any of your episodes of this before? i do not know. i heard that he had, but not being him, i couldn t actually say with any kind of truthfulness that he has. i hope that he has. the image of the president watching our dumb little internet show is very funny to me. yeah. it is. but watching, it wasn t clear to me there that he was completely, you know, kind of enjoying the joke. i think he was getting the joke, but i m not sure he was always
got a favorite child. wait a minute. does everybody have a favorite or not? fox & friends hour two for wednesday starts right now. steve: remember the smothers brothers, part of their act was mom always liked you best. that s part of what we re going to talk about with this guy who admits he likes one of his kids more than the other. gretchen: it s different when it s a comedy scene and when it s actual eon paper and on social media for your kids to see. brian: you know you re the lucky one if you re not the favorite. it gives you angst, because everybody day i m ranked number two. avis embraced that image. gretchen: you let us know what you think. all eyes on the united nations.
night live and an author. he s even got his own ice cream flavor. behind all the laughter is another jimmy fallon. piers, i saw what you did to oprah, and you are not going to make me cry, buddy. the real jimmy fallon. properly in love? properly in love, what are you saying? what are you jimmy fallon, the prime-time cable exclusive, this is piers morgan tonight. jimmy fallon, your new book is called thank you notes. we all know them from your show. brilliant, simple idea. very quick. you know, when you start a talk show, a late night talk show, you always hope for like the top ten list or the headlines like leno has or whatever like that. we try different things every week. this guy jeremy bronston came up with the thank you notes. it was with one off. we tried it, wrote sarcastic thank you notes, twitter, facebook blew up. my god, we love thank you notes. do it again. guys, we might have a hit. it s cool. is it like all things in comedy, especially with th
piers, you re not going to make me cry, buddy. i saw what you did with oprah. the real jimmy fallon. properly in love? properly in love, what are you saying? what are you jimmy fallon, the prime-time cable exclusive, this is piers morgan tonight. jimmy fallon, your new book is called thank you notes. we all know them from your show. brilliant, simple idea. very quick. you know, when you start a talk show, a late night talk show, you always hope for like the top ten list or the headlines like leno has or whatever like that. we try different things every week. this guy jeremy bronston came up with the thank you notes. it was with one off. we tried it, wrote sarcastic thank you notes, twitter, facebook blew up. my god, thank you notes did it again. guys, we might have a hit. it s cool. is it like all things in comedy, especially with the running things, is it the simpler the idea, often the more effective it is? yeah. seriously, ideas you think of off the str