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<h3 class="title">You know those crazy interviews on the Daily Show?</h3>

<p>The ones where they seem to make a fool out of the person they are interviewing and whatever issues they are trying to defend?  Here's a <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9880162/" target="_blank">cool article on MSNBC</a> about how a lot of those interviews actually weren't staged but as the Daily Show has become more popular it has grown harder for them to find people to dupe into interviewing or to at least get them to play along.</p>

<p>I had always wondered how authentic the interviews were.  Looks like in the beginning they were pretty real but now they sometimes have to find people who know what they are getting into but will play along anyway.  Good read.</p>

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