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He's also planning to do a feature-length film built around man-on-the-street videos, something he misses doing after having taken a few years off.
Justine Goodman: Don't Call It a Comeback: Tom Green's Real-Life (Comedy) Road Trip Justine Goodman 2010
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But perhaps more interesting is that Green, who is still best-known for his man-on-the-street, guerrilla-style videos (many of which involved hilarious pranks, often pulled on his parents), has recently turned his attention to an entirely different medium: standup comedy.
Justine Goodman: Don't Call It a Comeback: Tom Green's Real-Life (Comedy) Road Trip Justine Goodman 2010
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While Stewart was having some fun at AT&T's expense, correspondent John Oliver showed with some man-on-the-street interviews that people really are fed up with their current iPhone carrier.
WATCH: Stewart Rejoices Over Verizon iPhone The Huffington Post 2011
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But perhaps more interesting is that Green, who is still best-known for his man-on-the-street, guerrilla-style videos (many of which involved hilarious pranks, often pulled on his parents), has recently turned his attention to an entirely different medium: standup comedy.
Justine Goodman: Don't Call It a Comeback: Tom Green's Real-Life (Comedy) Road Trip Justine Goodman 2010
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The interviews are interspersed with footage of drivers engaging in risky behavior and man-on-the-street accounts of why drivers bend the rules.
Video: "How's My Driving?" documentary on distracted driving and road rage 2010
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While Stewart was having some fun at AT&T's expense, correspondent John Oliver showed with some man-on-the-street interviews that people really are fed up with their current iPhone carrier.
WATCH: Stewart Rejoices Over Verizon iPhone The Huffington Post 2011
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Twice a week, the two doctors sit down and film a roughly 20-minute segment where they answer questions about health care reform submitted by the public via Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, and through "man-on-the-street" video interviews of Capitol Hill visitors.
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A little man-on-the-street reaction to the Kwamemobiles -- including Leo Alexander: "Kwame Brown will definitely be a contender for 'Bama of the Year!'"
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Ms. Rhodes-Pitts takes her title from a 1948 essay by Ralph Ellison, who asked a Harlem man-on-the-street how he was doing and was told: "Oh, man, I'm nowhere."
The Mecca of Black America Edward Kosner 2011
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President Obama popped up at the end of a man-on-the-street montage about favorite movie songs.
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