Monica Almeida/The New York Times

As fans of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart know, your 'moment of Zen' usually comes at the end of the broadcast. But this was too good to hold that long.

Submitted for your approval, The New York Times' disturbing, compelling, altogether amazing photos (by Monica Almeida) of Edward Moss, the actor E! has contracted to play Michael Jackson. Like that photo of the bullet blasting through the apple, we are seeing the unseen: how a man becomes a Jacko. As Moss tells Lola Ongunnaike, "After 10 years of doing this, it's become like my right hand... I know [Jackson]. I know the character. It's second nature."

A Fake Michael Jackson's Big Break: A Fake Trial [NYT]

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