I hate the obsolete late night show vaudeville format, and I wish Jimmy Kimmel’s show could just be a collection of bits like this, a genius segment where he sends a man on the street down to ask people about fake movies they just made up, that people then lie about having seen. Amazing what people will do just to avoid having to admit they haven’t seen a movie, isn’t it? I blame every person who’s ever yelled “YOU’VE NEVER SEEN TAXI DRIVER?!?” at someone for this. Myself included, though almost always in reference to The Big Lebowski.
Questions include:
Do you think Eddie Murphy deserved an Oscar nomination for his role in Ninja Nights?
Are you excited that elephant party 7 got five Oscar nominations today?
Do you think Chris Christie received an Oscar nomination for his role in Life of Pie?
Do you think Eddie Murphy deserved an Oscar nomination for his role in Ninja Nights 3: The Reckoning?
Do you think Eddie Murphy deserved an Oscar nomination for his role in Ninja Retreats?
The big question here is, does the Jimmy Kimmel Show only invent fake movies with Eddie Murphy in them, or do people only lie about having seen Eddie Murphy films? Also, you may come away from this believing that human beings are gullible, insecure dunces. I’m not sure if that’s true, but people who visit the Hollywood walk of fame in the middle of day and are thrilled to be man-on-the-street interview subjects are almost certainly gullible, insecure dunces.
Unless they told the people beforehand “just go along with everything I say,” which would just be mean.
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As a fan of Jimmy Kimmel and, more importantly, Howard Stern AND the fact that they’re buddies, it sucks that he’s ripped this bit from the Stern Show.
I also like both of them, but… what is he supposed to do? Reference Stern every time he does the bit? Are all street interviews off limits because Stern did them first (which I’m not entirely sure is even true)?
Jimmy and Howard were just hanging together in Cabo last month so surely this is more of an homage than blatant ripoff, unlike that hack Leno. Also, the bits on Howard are inherently much more racist, and thus funnier!
Yeah there’s not much he can do. I’m pretty sure he didn’t do the street interviews first either but it seems like a lot of the concepts he (or his staff) have come up with are new and subsequently ripped by late night shows.
I would be devastated if I found out the people were in on it. I’m sure there must be hours of footage of people calling them out.
I like to believe these are the people lying so they would be on TV.
Sometimes I think the people that call them out would be almost as funny as the people who have no clue what’s going on.
For each of these people that actually answered, there’s probably a dozen others who went “Huh?”
I like to do the opposite of this, and pretend that I haven’t seen something so I can avoid talking to someone I don’t like.
“What’s that? Star Wars? Never even heard of it! Guess we’re out of stuff to talk about now! Byeeee!”
Wow, Patty. You went to my high school. As, like, 40 different girls.
I do this all the time. I just don’t give a fuck what somebody else has to say about whatever book/movie/TV show.
In fact, I worked off-an-on with a former Survivor contestant for three years and never once let on to her that Survivor was (and is) one of my favorite TV shows. And all because I thought she was a bitch when she was on the show.
@Morton…. ooh ooh which former Survivor contestant?
@IZGOOD
She was on Survivor: Thailand. That’s all I’m saying because I know she has a google alert on her name and don’t want the headache if she figures out I’m me.
Related: I love how many girls in University would act like it was so crazy that they’d never seen Star Wars. This would be in class in front of everyone, but now I wonder if it wasn’t a nerd deflector.
Damn, I was interpreting it as “Ninja Knights” instead of “Ninja Nights”…. I suppose “Ninja Knights” wouldn’t be good enough for Oscar attention. But Eddie Murphy was so good in–DAMMIT! Tricked again!
Elephant Party really went down hill after Elephant Party 2: The Trunkening
I hear Operation Dumbo Drop is actually a prequel.
Fuck you.
I know everyone hates Leno around here, but I remember watching one of his Jaywalking game-show style segments a looong time ago and thinking it was fucking hilarious. I’ll always remember a woman looking at a big picture of the Hindenburg and calling it the Titanic. Another question was “how many pounds are in one ton?” and a guy answered “one million.” Cool story right?