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How to Pull Off a Real-Life Mockumentary

The Town with Matthew Belloni

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How to Make Ronald the Butt of the Joke

There's a version of this show that is a prank show and Ronald becomes the butt of the joke. But you guys made a choice here, it seems, to kind of turn Ronald into almost like the hero of the show. And by the end, we are invested in him kind of figuring this out or being a good sport about it at the end. Yeah, hopefully Ronald doesn't feel too pranked as the word he would use. I think actually we as the language. You guys must have decided that. Yes, that was the idea from the beginning was, okay, how do we put someone who doesn't know what's going on? We don't know, this is a

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