Funny or Die spoofs Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, with James Van Der Beek and Anna Camp as Home Shopping Channel Hosts who are choosy about their customers. The two enthusiastic, bubbly hosts enjoy their ‘religious freedom’ by peddling their overpriced junk – but only to straight customers – and good fibbers.
They enjoy their religious freedom even more by refusing to sell that same garbage – $300 plates, a football phone, and “funky bible reading glasses” to anyone who doesn’t pass their informal ‘straight or gay’ questioning.
“Can you imagine a world in which a gay couple asks you to make a cake and then you actually have to sit down and make it?” exclaims Camp, clearly fascinated but revolted. Van Der Beek begins his response forcefully, saying, “What’s next, I all of a sudden leave my wife Cindy and go shack up with Don in a post-modern house in Palm Springs?” Van Der Beek looks almost wistful when he speaks of the Palm Springs house.
The same expression flashes on Van Der Beek’s face, when a caller is almost caught, but salvages his football phone, by claiming to have been to gay conversion camp.“Well good ON ya Al” murmurs Van Der Beek, “They work…they really do,” fading out of character for a moment.
The show closing “Piece de Resistance” is a watch- and a big reveal, for anyone who has been asleep.
Van Der Beek touts the watch with nostalgia, saying “The timepiece really takes you back to the days of the drive-in movie theater and Main Street and the whole classic soda fountain with the sign that says “Whites Only.”
Yes indeed Anna “Happy days are here again!”