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This appearance gets to the heart of why I like both men so much. Zach for his comedy through character, and Obama for being cool with risking playing the fool, and being confident enough to know he can sidestep any potential idiocies coming from Zach. Well played, Mr. President.

I think the interview was a little less surly than Bill O'Reilly's interviews with President Obama... I assume Fox News will look at this "interview" as "hard hitting'..

I think there was good stuff, but it needed some fine tuning, but overall, both did okay with their performances.

I enjoyed that. We have a funny president. And this should help with outreach.

If I wanted a celebrity as a president I would have voted for Barack Obama.

This has been a bad trend ever since Bill Clinton played his SAX on the Arsenio Hall show. The President isn't just some guy, there's also the dignity of the office to be considered.

@5 You have the relationship backwards. Obama is a celebrity because he is President. Reagan was a celebrity who was elected President.

The clip has been identified as the current site with the highest referrals to the HealthCare.gov.

@6 Clinton wasn't president when he did that. By that same token, Reagan besmirched the dignity of the office by appearing on screen with a chimp co-star, or George W. Bush did when he played dress up on an aircraft carrier. (Oh wait, he was president then...)

Oh, c'mon 6. Showing a human, humorous side is undignified? You want them to always be starch asses? :)

@11 I've got nothing against showing a human, humorous side. But to me, appearing on a Funny or Die web show to try to sell the signature accomplishment of your 8 years in office is a big, BIG step down for the most powerful politician on earth. How would you feel about this if the subject was the failure to close Gitmo or the progress of the Afghan war? The President should't fuck around with issues of gravity.

He wouldn't go on an undergroundish comedy show to talk about prisons or wars! Also, when any kindofabigdeal type person, pope or president, decides to slum it a little with us peasants, it makes a lot of us smile. & possibly sign up for healthcare.

The Teabaggers are so pissed that they are stuck with Princess Dumbass of the North and what's his name? That guy that was occasionally funny when he on SNL about thirty years ago? Dennis something caucasian, I think. Anyway, he sucks now.

@12

Have you heard of this thing called the internet?

@12 ...get off my lawn, right?

@6 The beauty of the Presidency is that it *is* "just some guy". The president is not appointed by God or happenstance of birth, but is a common citizen - as special as the rest of us. Certainly, happenstance of birth has historically played into who has the means and education to become president, but the intention of the office is that this person who becomes president does so because of his or her work, because the president is just a citizen, a real human and not a descendant of gods or especially anointed.

Sure, the person who can achieve the office of the president is going to be a cut above average - either by luck, work, or familial ties - but still: there is no nobility in America.