''Michael Moore Live'', is a 1999

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featuring political advocate

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, that ran for one six-part series. It was shown on

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and aired in the United Kingdom only, though it was broadcast from New York. The show had a similar format to ''

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'' but also incorporated phone-ins and a live stunt each week. It was filmed around 7pm local time, which due to the time difference made it a late-night show in the UK. (EST is five hours behind GMT) The live phone-ins all featured UK viewers, and questions were mainly about American policy at the time, e.g.

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and the war in

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. Each week, Moore was joined by guests, and one of the regulars was an illegal UK alien in the USA named Nigel (although his real name was James Horne). Throughout the show, he had to wear a rubber

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mask to hide his true identity.

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