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[Wildcard]

This sounds to me like a slightly jaded performer so used to his on-stage persona that he can step outside of it and look in from a different perspective -- cynically summing himself up as a fraud who appeals to the idiot masses only because they don't know who he actually is. Of course, that's just one possibility

PS I think laudatory is fine to use there.

That just about sums it up I don't know how you and Todd do that

Grannyjill: This is one isn't so much a fantasy as a reality that has to be accepted.