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.
This is not true. The experts know in advance its a comedy thing, they just dont know what the questions will be.
Basically an updated take on Brass Eye (which is absolutely a compliment)
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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.
I’m the same. I watched about 1 min of one of her interviews and had to turn it off due to all the second hand embarrassment I was feeling.
They’re in on the joke to a degree. They know it’s a comedy show but nothing more.
Some of them have so much fun playing straight man. The philosopher, the military history guy who comforts her when she mock cries on finding out nukes still exist, and the “Jesus was the first victim of cancel culture” religious scholar all come to mind.
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.
Do they really think it’s serious? I thought they knew it was a joke, but try to answer as seriously as possible
land of the free
look inside
slaves
Welcome to the United Snakes
Land of the thief,
Home of the slave.
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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
I fully believe that America is the land of the free.
It’s just that most people are not a part of “the free.”