YouTubers prank Carole Baskin from Tiger King with the interview ‘Jimmy Fallon’

Two YouTubers have tricked Carole Baskin into giving her her first interview after her controversial appearance on the Netflix series Tiger King.

While Baskin thought he was going to chat with late-night host Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show, YouTube prankster Josh Pieters and Archie Manners were asking him questions.

The couple posed as producers and used Zoom’s calls and old snippets of television sound to discover if they could trick celebrities into thinking they were being interviewed on real late-night TV shows.

Pieters told Insider magazine that they had the idea to watch shows like Good Morning Britain, and they wondered if guests could always see who was interviewing them.

“That’s where the idea came from to reproduce the talent recordings of their interviewers and see if they realized it,” Pieters said.

In two previous videos, they used voice clips from James Corden and tricked British pop star Craig David and Love Island couple Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury in fake interviews.

After their first pranks were successful, they knew they were ready to take it to the next level.

“Here is an opportunity where we could perhaps interview some top-level talent because we are disguised as being a really famous show,” Pieters told Insider.

“And we thought, why don’t we take a picture in the dark and look for the most unique and hard-to-reach person in the world, with no hope of it working?”

The couple pretended to be from a production company that reserves celebrities for appearances on late-night talk shows. Carole initially declined, but accepted the provision that the interview would be only about cats.

Then they found a bunch of Fallon clips interviewing guests and talking about cats, and had them ready on an iPad.

“Jimmy Fallon has interviewed people called Cat, has interviewed the cast of Cats, and has actually interviewed a real cat,” Pieters said.

Pieters’ strangers, Manners, said they even had an excuse as to why Fallon obviously wouldn’t appear on-screen himself, telling Baskin that it was because he was filming at home due to closing restrictions.

During the interview, Baskin talked about how his life has changed during the closure and how he is struggling to lose income due to the impact of the coronavirus on tourism.

Baskin ended the interview by asking people to support the Big Cat Public Safety Act and not pay to see the tiger cubs.

“We really didn’t expect it to work,” Pieters said of the joke. “We still can’t believe we were able to interview Carole Baskin.”

Animal rights activist Baskin appeared in the Netflix documentary Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Insanity, due to her bitter relationship with Joe Exotic, a private zookeeper.

But another solid story for Baskin has been the many questions about his spouse Don, who went missing in 1997.

He was legally declared dead in 2002 and after Exotic alleged that Baskin killed her husband, the True Crime network id decided to make a new documentary focusing on Baskin and Don.