Fox Completely Loses Sense of Humor over Obama’s Between Two Ferns Video

‘Some would argue it’s inappropriate for the president of the United States to be advertising a law’

Fox Completely Loses Sense of Humor over Obama’s Between Two Ferns Video (Mediaite)

While President Barack Obama’s episode of Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis was openly a youth pitch for Obamacare, it had a great deal of jokes for people of all political stripes to find amusing. And yet, much of Fox’s Tuesday programming on the video seemed to think there was literally nothing funny about a comedian and a president snarking about various matters.

The video had been live on FunnyorDie.com for an hour before the hosts of Fox & Friends deigned to weigh in on it. And unlike the vast majority of people who watched the video online, they did not find anything funny about it.

“Who recommended he do this?” Brian Kilmeade asked in disbelief. “The deadline to sign up is three weeks away, should the president of the United States doing this?” He said “it’s so inappropriate” for “the president of the United States to be sitting down doing an interview that’s a mockup.”

“Some would argue it’s inappropriate for the president of the United States to be advertising a law,” Elisabeth Hasselbeck added.

But the real kicker came at the end of the segment when Kilmeade said, “I think it’s pretty tragic. Whoever recommended that he do that show should be fired.”

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