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jon stewart and stephen colbert... is an o.k. interview, made laugh-out funny by the subjects' savvy & rapport.
Q: A fake news show, "The Daily Show," spawned a fake commentator, Colbert, who makes his own fake reality defending the fake reality of a real president, and has government officials on who know the joke but are still willing to be mocked by someone fake. Your shows are like mirrors within mirrors, using a cycle of fakery to get to the truth. You've tapped into a sense in society that nothing, from reality shows to Bushworld, is real anymore. Do you guys ever get confused by your hall of mirrors?
STEWART: I didn't know we were going to have to be high to do this interview.
COLBERT: I think we see it less as a hall of mirrors and more as one of those slenderizing mirrors you can buy that you see in catalogs that make you feel good about yourself before you go out the door.
sascha baron cohen --the real borat-- finally speaks is billed as a peek at the "man behind the mask" but the whole thing plods along over a blow-by-blow of the evening in a pedantic "what it really means" call-and-response that isn't resisted one bit by its obviously exhausted subject.
But the America that Borat discovers on his cross-country trek here -- rife with homophobia, xenophobia, racism, classism and anti-Semitism -- is all too real.
"I think part of the movie shows the absurdity of holding any form of racial prejudice, whether it's hatred of African-Americans or of Jews," Baron Cohen says.
A waiter places a complimentary appetizer in front of Baron Cohen.
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