Jerry Seinfeld and President Barack Obama got in a car, got in another car, wandered around the White House, made some coffee, and had the kind of awkward, funny small talk that you’d imagine on a first-date between two famous people.

Obama: “Did I tell you that I played golf with Larry David?”
Seinfeld; “No, because you and I don’t talk that much.”

Seinfeld: You ever go on eBay?
Obama: No

Last night’s episode was the first of the seventh season of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” and the first time that a president appeared on the show (in the intro Seinfeld declares that Obama “has gotten off just enough funny lines to qualify”).

Obama: “I always wanted to be in a show about nothing and here I am”

Earlier this month, Seinfeld showed up to take a spin around the South Lawn in a 1963 Corvette Stingray, and, per the show’s title, get a coffee. But they didn’t actually leave the White House as they chatted about the president’s routine (he wakes up by phone call, picks out his own suit, has only one brand and one color of underwear), politics as football, and fame.

Obama: “I do really well with the 0-8 demographic, partly because my ears are big, so I look a little like a cartoon character. And then little kids love saying my name, but it’s all one big name—‘barackobama’.”

It’s the latest notch for Obama’s increasingly robust list of pop culture appearances, including Between Two Ferns, WTF With Marc Maron, and Running Wild With Bear Grills.
But it was Seinfeld who learned that the president curses a lot (so he says) and is really into nachos.

Obama: “That’s one of those where I have to have it taken away. I’ll have guacamole coming out of my eyeballs.”

In the 20-minute episode, the president also shed some light on the vagaries of international relations.

Seinfeld: “How many world leaders do you think are just completely out of their mind?”
Obama: “A pretty sizable percentage”
Seinfeld: “Some of these people you must meet them, you must be chatting and you look and them in the eyes and go, this guy is gone.”
Seinfeld: “And part of what happens is these guys, I think the longer they stay in office, the more likely that is to happen.”
Seinfeld: “Of course, they lose it.”
Obama: “At a certain point, your feet hurt and you’re having trouble peeing, and you have absolute power”

And at the very end, after mentioning Obamacare almost perfunctorily, Obama got in the driver’s seat himself.

Seinfeld: “I like the hand hanging over the wheel”
Obama: If you’re driving a ‘vette you gotta do it that way, you can’t be doing the 12 and 2 thing. C’mon man that’s not cool… I’m appreciably cooler than I was just two minutes ago

Watch the whole episode here.

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