{"id":1100,"date":"2020-05-05T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T00:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=172184"},"modified":"2020-11-12T22:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T22:56:30","slug":"carole-baskin-jimmy-fallon-fake-interview","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/carole-baskin-jimmy-fallon-fake-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Carole Baskin Was Fooled Into Thinking She Was On &#8220;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_170808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170808\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-170808 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/05dad331-4620-403e-8d9b-39ac45a66193-carolebaskin_tigerking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"363\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This made my isolated morning. Carole Baskin \u2013 the made-for-TV villain and reluctant star of <em>Tiger King<\/em> \u2013 has given her first television interview since the wildly popular Netflix docu-series began streaming. Except\u2026 she didn\u2019t realise she was being completely punked.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube pranksters Archie Manners and Josh Pieters pretended to be producers on the <em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em>. After a few back-and-forths whereby Baskin negotiated to appear on the &#8220;show&#8221; on the proviso she didn\u2019t talk about <em>Tiger King<\/em>, Manners and Pieters confirmed Quarantine\u2019s biggest name.<\/p>\n<p>They organized a Zoom call, did an incredible job at pretending to check volume levels before explaining to the big cat caretaker that she wouldn\u2019t be able to see Fallon during the interview \u2013 but that the host could indeed see Baskin. The duo then stitched together interview questions and reactions from past Fallon interviews and played them to Baskin.<\/p>\n<p>Manners and Pieters uploaded the hilarious prank to their YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/carole-baskin-tiktok\/\"><span class=\"price-style\">See the best Carole Baskin impersonator on TikTok<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite being duped, Baskin told <em>US Weekly<\/em> she \u201cisn\u2019t angry\u201d about the \u201cfun prank.\u201d \u201cI was suspicious as we were doing it because the questions appeared taped, but had no idea it would turn out to be such a fun prank,\u201d she said. \u201cIt gave us a very welcome good laugh. I appreciate their cleverness and that they created their video in a way that I don\u2019t feel was in any way mean-spirited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Take a break from your isolation worries and have a laugh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/a-carole-baskin-inspired-edit-of-animal-print-joe-exotic-tiger-king\/\"><span class=\"price-style\">See A CAROLE BASKIN-INSPIRED EDIT OF ANIMAL PRINT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We Tricked Carole Baskin into Giving Us Her First Interview Since Tiger King\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1MhcOlpalbw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":1101,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Carole Baskin Was Fooled Into Thinking She Was On &quot;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&quot; - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/carole-baskin-jimmy-fallon-fake-interview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carole Baskin Was Fooled Into Thinking She Was On &quot;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This made my isolated morning. 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