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in the afternoon before an audience of around 250 people and televised a few hours later at night. The show's set included a mobile interview stage that could be moved from one side of the studio to the other. A large desk on that stage contained buttons with hilarious sounds and video clips before
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was broadcast once a week (on a Monday) from its beginning in 1999 to
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s current nature was missing the humor and creativity of the first years of the show and Raab had lost most of his dedication, which ultimately caused the ratings to drop below the 1 million mark.
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was criticized multiple times by the media, mostly because of the exposure of (mostly random and inexperienced) people to mockery. German tabloid paper
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after he left the show in April 2007 but was denied this performance by RTL who cited their existing contract. Raab then started a campaign called
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started as Raab's intern and sidekick and had frequent appearances on the show, for example as a quizmaster for the weekly rubric
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