• Queen HawlSera
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    1227 months 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.

      • Snot Flickerman
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        87 months 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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      477 months 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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        217 months ago

        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.

        • @blindsight@beehaw.org
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          37 months ago

          Yeah, I don’t think anyone is confused that it’s a comedy interview, are they? I can’t imagine they can do it all in one take without anyone cracking up.

          She’s a reasonably famous comedian since The IT Crowd, too.

        • @teuniac_@lemmy.world
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          37 months ago

          I feel the same way. She is also way too well known for any expert to be fooled into thinking it’s going to be a serious interview

      • @DharkStare@lemmy.world
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        107 months ago

        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.

        • @naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          117 months ago

          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.

        • @hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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          77 months ago

          I never knew this was “a thing”, but I guess I have a form of it.

          I absolutely, positively cannot watch The Office, but Cunk on Earth? It is one of the few comedy things lately that’s had me absolutely rolling.

    • @Cringe2793@lemmy.world
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      127 months ago

      Do they really think it’s serious? I thought they knew it was a joke, but try to answer as seriously as possible

      • @LemmysMum@lemmy.world
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        97 months ago

        No, they are told to answer honestly and truthfully as if the questions were genuine, this is brilliant because it makes them the perfect “straight man” for the act.

    • @spudwart@spudwart.com
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      1107 months ago

      “We will have equal rights for all. Except blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Jews, gays, women, Muslims. Uhmm…Everybody who’s not a white man. And I mean white-white, so no Italians, no Polish, just people from Ireland, England, and Scotland. But only certain parts of Scotland and Ireland. Just full blooded whites. No, you know what? Not even whites. Nobody gets any rights. Ahhh…America!”

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      137 months ago

      Yeah I was watching the 1953 Calamity Jane Musical on the television, and there is a scene where they just take in the Splendor of the beauty of nature as they travel to this party, and they start singing a song. But before they do they remark

      “No matter them injuns are fighting so hard to keep this wonderful place”

      Which was a line that made me do a double take and go “Or maybe the more important fact that it’s… ya know… theirs to begin with?”

      • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        117 months ago

        I just finished a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie and other books in that series. In one of her books she had a line describing her part of the West as “a land that had no people in it”. In the 1950s, shortly before she died, a young fan wrote to her and pointed out that there were, in fact, people in it: the Indians. To her credit, Wilder wrote back that she had made a mistake and of course Indians were people, and she had future editions of the book edited to say “a land that had no settlers in it”.

  • @wandermind@sopuli.xyz
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    227 months 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
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      107 months 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.

  • @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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    137 months 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

    • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N
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      127 months ago

      Star Spangled Banner was written in 1814, so yes. It wasn’t adopted as the US natl anthem until 1931, but race relations were hardly a thing of the past at that point either.