One of the most consistently alarming, yet hilarious shows on television at the moment is The Eric Andre Show, Eric Andre’s nightmare version of a public access talk show. With the talk show landscape shifting in the past few years, many people overlook Adult Swim’s absurd take on the format led by Andre and Hannibal Buress. The extreme gauntlet that Andre puts himself through each season is unbelievable. His treatment of guests, people on the street, and sanity in general is one of the most surprising things on Adult Swim, and the latest season hits even crazier heights. I spoke with Eric about pushing the limits, his “white whale” of a sketch, ranch, and a whole lot more.

DEN OF GEEK: You’ve done some truly ridiculous stunts throughout the course of the series, but is there a certain “white whale” that you haven’t been able to pull off?

ERIC ANDRE: It’s more so a situation of a “white whale” regarding guests. We’ve come close to booking Jay Leno on the show. We’ve gotten close to getting Katt Williams. There’s also a lot of stuff that’s just out of our price range that we’ve wanted to do. We wanted to do an underwater version of the set destruction intro of the show. There’s a famous underwater scene in this Val Kilmer movie, Top Secret, that we thought would be funny if we did our version of that. We came close to doing it two years in a row. We even went as far as having a tank in the outskirts of Los Angeles county where we were going to get all this scuba gear and diving and crane operators; all of these underwater stunt performers. But it’s just so expensive and so time consuming that it’s not worth sacrificing a million other things for just fifty seconds. That’s the “white whale”!

Does doing an episode in some crazy on location fall under the same obstacles?