William was a moderator and interviewer at the Sparks 2021 Literary Festival. Although the footage has since been scrubbed from YouTube, presumably due to some copyright issue with Between Two Ferns, it is generally believed by many to have been among the greatest interviews of all time, right up there with Frost/Nixon and that time Joaquin pranked Letterman. William wrote about his experience at the festival for CBC.
William interviewed Benjamin Dugdale, one of Canada’s most promising emerging writers, and Billy O’Callaghan, an Irish legend in his own right. Again, the footage has been lost. Some would say ‘like teardrops in the rain,’ however this website is trying its best to not make any gratuitous pop culture references.
Only a small fragment of footage remains: