Is there anything better than interviewing wasted festival-goers?

Perfected by US chat show host Jimmy Kimmel and his Lie Witness News series in which members of the public are trolled with a bunch of fake band names, getting them to show off their knowledge by asking them their opinions on a bunch of acts that were completely fabricated.

First it was flower-toting, indie-loving, artifice-clutching Coachella attendees that were pranked by late night US television host Jimmy Kimmel, then the titular Jimmy Kimmel Live! host turned his attention to hip hop fans at the Rock The Bells festival.

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Now it’s time for us to laugh at Australian music festival punters.

Undoubtedly inspired by the popular segment, local comedian Dan Ilic took to this years Splendour In The Grass in Byron Bay, asking those who looked like they were having a lot of fun to solve the problems in the Middle East.

The results? From putting a doof on in the Gaza Strip with RUFUS, to taking all the left over food from Splendour and shipping it over to “those people”, it’s all pretty hilarious.

This year’s festival was lauded as one of the best ever, and while some of the above interviewed sound like they probably missed a fair bit of it, thousands of delighted punters were treated to a weekend of some of the best music an Australian music festival has ever seen.

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From the star-studded and unrelenting set of Peking Duk, to world’s biggest “Hell Fuck Yeah” with Violent Soho, and Ball Park Music electrifying the audience in the new amphitheatre with their cover of Bohemian Rhapsody – it’s no wonder the Middle East was far from their minds.

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