question about The Daily Show

cooljammer00

the faux interviews they do.....do the interviewees know they will be mocked?

how do they film the interviews, cause it's obvious there's some prep before hand, but these are real people. i'm just trying to wrap my mind around it. i hope what I'm asking is making sense.

jotate

I'm sure they know what they're getting into. None of them would put up with that kind of bullshit if they had gone into thinking they were honestly being interviewed...

Or so the child in me likes to believe...

Solandra

I want to say "Yes, of course they know!", but then I think of the Lynn Cheney interview...

jotate

Solandra wrote: »

I want to say "Yes, of course they know!", but then I think of the Lynn Cheney interview...

I don't think he was referring to those. More the lines of the correspondent segments, I think. Lynne Cheney knew exactly what the fuck she was getting into. And I love her for doing it anyway.

Gdiguy

I thought I've read that they try to conceal it somewhat (ie, "we're from a television news show produced by viacom..."), but it's true that people wouldn't do it if they knew, which is why the quality of those segments has gone steadily downhill as the popularity/fame of the daily show has increased... at this point they really have to get lucky with someone who doesn't recognize the people/hasn't heard of the show (or people who have huge egos and figure that they can take them on and still make their point)

SpinalPheonix

Surely, if anybody takes the interviews seriously then it really just adds to the joke, no?

P.S. What was with Lynn Cheney walking off at the end, anybody?

jotate

Jon talked about that on the episode the next day. She was running off to fetch him a pie she had baked.

Apparently.

SpinalPheonix

jotate wrote: »

Jon talked about that on the episode the next day. She was running off to fetch him a pie she had baked.

Apparently.

Thanks, I saw that clip the next day I was just wondering if she had just gone a bit nutty (you know for the wife of a man that is rumoured to spend his life beneath 100 feet of blast-proof concrete).

jotate

I'd bet she either walked off because she thought she was supposed to or she was pissed off that Jon had just talked her into making an ass of herself.

I personally hope it was the latter, but I'd bet it was the former.

grungebox

I heard an interview with I think one of the producers of The Daily Show, it might have been on NPR. He said they tell every interviewee that they're from "The Daily Show." They don't say anything beyond that, but they don't lie and pretend to be a legitimate news program.

Like Gdiguy said, it's harder to do interviews now because the show is quite popular. Some of the guests are huge fans of the show, and know they'll be cast as fools, but they do it anyway to be on TV. This one anti-bullying guy just wanted to get any publicity for his group that he could; they talked about it in a CNN article a while back. Foreign guests don't often get the show, though.

Qorzm

Not exactly the same, but on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert plays a very exaggerated character. His interviews are much more ridiculous and over the top.

But to be related, I've seen a video of normal Stephen Colbert explaining to John Kerry that his character is an idiot, and explains what he might talk about on the show and such.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1759413

oldsak

I believe they also edit the interviews quite a bit. So the interviewee might find the interview odd, but I doubt it seems anywhere as ridiculous as the finished product.

Creepy

SpinalPheonix wrote: »

jotate wrote: »

Jon talked about that on the episode the next day. She was running off to fetch him a pie she had baked.

Apparently.

Thanks, I saw that clip the next day I was just wondering if she had just gone a bit nutty (you know for the wife of a man that is rumoured to spend his life beneath 100 feet of blast-proof concrete).

Uhm, the clip the next day was of a MAN in a wig bringing Stewart a pie. IIRC, Stewart even said something about his tie or suit changing in the pie clip.

She wanted the fuck outta there. End of story.

Sorry 'bout the tangent.