Obama and Hangover star trade barbs on web show

American President Barack Obama is trying a new strategy in his struggle to sell his stumbling health care law – self parody. Obama ventured onto the spoof online comedy show “Between Two Ferns” in which host and “Hangover” star Zach Galifianakis grills showbiz luminaries with embarrassing questions. “What’s it like to be the last black president,” Galifianakis asked Obama in the show, which debuted on the “Funny or Die” website on Tuesday. “What’s it like for this to be the last time you ever talk to a president,” Obama hit back. Galifianakis, spoofing low budget television interview shows, also jabbed Obama over “ambassador” Dennis Rodman’s trips to North Korea and ribbed him over his “home country” of Kenya. For the president, the point of the exercise was to reach a youthful audience since the health care law depends on healthy, young Americans to sign up to subsidize care for the sick and elderly. The Obama administration is in full sales mode on the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, ahead of a sign-up deadline on March 31.


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