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[theweaselking]

"Man, who could possibly have guessed that Catholics would be so quick to praise a nonexistent father figure just because someone exerted mild social pressure on them to do so?"

Jimmy Kimmel send out a film crew to interview people about the new Pope.

(No, there is no new Pope. Hence Jimmy Kimmel.)

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[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Given that according to a recent study 25% of people or so have opinions on totally non-existent politicians and issues, I'm not surprised.

[fatpie42.livejournal.com]

I have trouble believing those are just ordinary people off the street. I mean seriously, that was ludicrous! Are you sure the interviewees weren't in on it?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to bet they had to ask a few dozen people for everyone they got 30 seconds of good footage of. But I'm not surprised at all they got a few people willing to talk out their asses.

[skington.livejournal.com]

This is one of the things that I occasionally wonder about: how many people did e.g. The Day Today or Brass Eye approach about stupid bullshit fake news, who knocked them back either because they weren't sure, or because they or their people knew for a fact that this was clearly a fake news set-up?

And why don't e.g. Labour MPs who were approached to appear to Brass Eye about drugs, when David Amess speaks about anything, really, say things like "like my honourable friend I was asked to appear on TV about a subject of national importance; unlike him, I realised it was complete nonsense; why are you even listening to him, a man proven to be a certifiable lackwit?"

[fatpie42.livejournal.com]

They have another one of these where people give specific details of their reaction to an earthquake that didn't happen that morning, including where they were and how they felt when the ground shook beneath their feet. You know what? Maybe some of those people are honestly making stuff up so that they can get on tv. But they'd have to go through a lot of honest people first. I'm sceptical about how much time that tv programme is really willing to devote to material from ordinary people for this short gag before they just start paying people to say what they want to hear.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

.... paying people and scripting takes *more* time, not less, when you add in ancillary costs. And if they were doing that, I would expect it to be funnier.

In the mean time, I don't think it's as much "lying to get on TV" as "when put on the spot in front of an audience, don't want to admit ignorance"