• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You really need to look this woman up and listen to her interviews. Because her routine is that she will find actual experts in various fields and then bring them into joke interviews, that they believe are completely serious. And then she delivers the most absurd questions the most straight-faced professional sounding monotone possible, and then watch people try to answer those questions without getting mad, blowing off the interview, or asking if this is a joke…

    As they are lead to believe that it is serious and they don’t want to look unprofessional or be the rude person.

    • Marbles@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      This is not true. The experts know in advance its a comedy thing, they just dont know what the questions will be.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        Most of them have been on her shows multiple times, as well. So they tend to have previous experience with her, on top of already being aware.

    • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I get really bad embarrassment squick (watching other people in uncomfortable situations makes me very uncomfortable) and this show is 100% unwatchable, which means it is definitely hilarious for anyone who isn’t afflicted by a similar condition.

      • ApfelstrudelWAKASAGI@feddit.de
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        No clue how you got that impression. I suffer from the same second-hand emabarassment as well (which prevents me from enjoying most western ‘look at how stupid and dumb and embarassing the MCs are’-comedies), but its not being triggered in the slightest by her. The interviewees 100% percent know that they’re being fucked with.

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    1 year ago

    I fully believe that America is the land of the free.

    It’s just that most people are not a part of “the free.”

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Indeed. Only The Free could hold land. Everyone else was prevented from doing so. And in order to vote, you needed to be a landholder.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Ok was it actually called that before emancipation? I can’t help but feel like actually calling it that was more of a cold war-ism