Watch Nick Offerman get sensual, sweaty in Megan Amram’s Science…For Her! book trailer

By William Hughes | October 17, 2014 | 3:51pm

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Comedian and Parks And Recreation writer Megan Amram has put together the world’s least glamorous workout video to promote her new book, Science…For Her! The book, a satirical takedown of sexist beliefs about women’s role in the sciences, is presented as a Cosmo magazine version of a science textbook, and is set to hit stores on November 4. Amram, working with Funny Or Die, has put together a trailer for the book, featuring a parody of Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical,” and also an enormous amount of shuddering comedian manflesh.

Some of comedy’s most potato-shaped hunks are on hand for the video, gyrating awkwardly and permanently extinguishing the viewer’s sex drive. The stand-out is Rich Fulcher of The Mighty Boosh, whose gelatinous, shaking stomach produces a mesmerizing, libidio-murdering effect. The cavalcade of hideous, grunting comedy meat is slightly ruined by Amram’s Parks And Recreation co-worker Nick Offerman, though, who pretty much always looks great, even when writhing in a mountain of kale. But hey, at least he tried.