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Comedian John Crist planned a fake award show to trick a reporter.

Crist got comedian Nate Bargatze and his wife to help him pull it off.

The venue? The Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville.

What do you do when the Christian comedian you like so much that you even moved to a different state for announces he’s getting the “Nashville comedian of the fiscal quarter award” at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center during the Nashville Comedy Impact Awards?

If you’re WSMV Channel 4 reporter Lydia Fielder, you head home to change fast after work, dress to the nines and cross your fingers that he’s got his acceptance speech prepped, because that beau, John Crist, seems a little nervous.

That’s exactly what Fielder did in late August.

As she described the night to The Tennessean

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