Oh yeah... his performance is obviously a performance. It's Armisen in that interview that's playing it so straight that it's impossible to tell if he's in on it.
Yeah, I didn't realize that it was a parody of Maher... but I knew Fred was too smart to not be in on it. He just played it so perfectly.It’s a 1-1 parody of Bill Maher’s Club Random, where Maher steamrolls his guests, talks over then, argues while agreeing, etc…so Fred is playing the character of himself in Tim’s parody, and is very much in on it.
Between Decker the "TV" series, On Cinema at the Cinema, the courtroom drama it's nuts the depths they've gone to. Not for everyone that's for sure.