Late night shows have been doing man-on-the-street interviews since the days of Steve Allen, but The Daily Show took the genre to a new level in the aughts. In the standard man-on-the-street interview, the subject knows on some level that they’re being pranked: The reason Jimmy Kimmel sends a camera crew to poll people on Hollywood Boulevard about the last book they read is not because he’s looking for recommendations; he’s rooting for stupidity. In The Daily Show’s remote segments from their early days, the subject thinks he or she is sitting down for a respectful interview. The platonic example is Steve Carell’s segment about the Florida mayor who banned Satan:
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