Inside President Obama's "Between Two Ferns" video

ET's Brooke Anderson sat down with Funny or Die director Scott Aukerman to discuss the video everyone is talking about -- the wildly popular "Between Two Ferns" episode featuring President Barack Obama.

Aukerman reveals that the Obama administration approached them explaining, "The White House came to us [because] they really wanted to get the word out about the Affordable Care Act and they were looking for interesting ways to do it. I don't think there's any more interesting way than doing a small, really weird internet show." He goes on to say, "[The White House was] really hands off about the whole thing and they really wanted it to be like a normal episode of Between Two Ferns, which means Zach insulting [President Obama] and [the episode] getting really strange. They fully embraced that."

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Aukerman, who directs all episodes of "Between Two Ferns," divulges that President Obama was fully prepared for the improvisational style of the show. "We shot [the episode] the way we always shoot them, where it's very experimental and anything can kind of happen. [President Obama is a] really funny guy. I mean we've had some really funny people on the show but there's just something magnetic about him when he gets on screen ... [President Obama] definitely had a lot of slams that he wanted to inflict upon [host] Zach [Galifianakis]. He was ready. He was locked and loaded."