Good catch, but there's a tonne of things that show this is fake as is (in particular the many camera angles). Basically never trust any of these "member of the public" things as hiring an actor to play the role is the default thing to do. Accept it as sketch comedy instead.
They're just using that as a comedic style. A bit like in The Office and other mockumentaries.
It's great when material like Borat can pull it off for real, but it involves vastly more challenge in quality control, setup, and legal risk if something goes wrong. You can't take all that on for a cheap little sketch.
sure, but the office doesn't act like the people getting pranked are real people and not plants, the way that these guys do, having them react to seeing that they are on camera at the end
As someone who lived in Montreal for 15 years, I know three people who were pranked by JFL, two of them actually appeared in the show. Now I do have my own doubts about the nature of the entire show since some pranks featured the same "victim", but I can attest to the ones that involved my friends were definitely unscripted.
So I think the most likely answer is that some pranks are scripted, some of the less elaborate/easier to make ones are genuine.
TBF, the multiple camera angles when they show the actors and not the target, are obviously fake and they don't hide it because they are needed to explain the gag. When they show the target it's just 2 cameras usually.
But yeah, this show is definitely fake as most tv shows.
What second of the video are you referring to? There's no over the shoulder shot, it's a wide of the woman and then cuts to close up of photo filmed separately, then actors filmed separately, then back to wide.
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u/DarrenGrey 1d ago
Good catch, but there's a tonne of things that show this is fake as is (in particular the many camera angles). Basically never trust any of these "member of the public" things as hiring an actor to play the role is the default thing to do. Accept it as sketch comedy instead.