5 Ways of Seeing Gary from Chicago and the Tour Bus That Crashed the Oscars in a Jimmy Kimmel Prank

If the last minute touch to the Oscars was seen To echo all the last -minute twists and turns lately, the Super Bowl, the elections – an silly segment of five minutes earlier in the night should be noted for what it has captured in the country’s tensions and tastes in the iPhone devices.

The team of the host Jimmy Kimmel has arranged for a tourist bus of so-called “real” tourists to enter the room, expecting a museum exhibition on the Oscars, but finds himself in the middle of the real thing. “Welcome to the Dolby Theater,” said Kimmel. “It is the home of the Oscars, which actually occur at the moment.”

The song was both fun and aggressive: a strange microcosm of the Hollywood relationship with America, the American relationship with the media and the capacity of Jimmy Kimmel to make a little more embarrassing than it is necessary.

The hunger of folk heroes (and memes)

At the front of the peloton was the man who would be the star of the moment of the rupture, “Gary de Chicago”. In a tuxedo room, he wore basketball shorts, a baseball cap and a “Hollywood” sweatshirt, with the phone keys and a purple bag and a bag that could have been the handbag of his fiancée. If Glitz’s ambush has intimidated him, he has not shown any sign of it, presenting himself happily to the stars and strongly responding to Kimmel’s jokes. On social networks, the thirst for pop culture of all eccentric symbolic men – See: Ken Bone, Joe the Plumber – have particularly made themselves known. The desires also of Various corporate marketing teams.

Our dependence on the collective phone

The dozen tourists seemed to realize what was going on at different rhythms, and with different emotions – the decline, the exaltation, the non -Chalance – but were united to keep their phones in front of their faces. “You know we are on television, so you don’t need to do so,” said Kimmel while Gary continued to film the room. His answer: “I know but I want. I want.”

The telephone accessories themselves could create a post-show fashion chronicle: a woman had a sparkling jewelry case, another lacked a selfie stick as if it were a talisman. Hand devices, the group attracted celebrities for selfies; Gary even put his phone back to Mahershala Ali as he posed with the actor’s Oscar.

For tourists, it was a rare opportunity to see in the flesh that people normally seen that on a screen. However, they have always insisted on having a screen between them.

Unlock the Hollywood bubble …

At a time when Americans have become highly aware of the way in which his different niches are isolated – political, socially, geographically – work citizens of the country were literally bus for cultural exchange with the cultural elite. The stars received them warmly: Ryan Gosling offered a kind of gift to Gary, Jennifer Anniston gave her sunglasses, Meryl and Mahershala and others smiled and tight. Denzel Washington even “married” Gary and his fiancée Vicky, although he said that this particular cinematographic icon seemed a little in a hurry to return to his seat.

… or strengthen it

Oscars (host) so white

Tourists were a mixture of white and black and brown men and women. But Kimmel has published all except normal diversity using tired humor on “funny” names-that is to say unusual names for white Americans. As tourists entered the room, he had the crowd “Mahershala!”, The name of MoonlightThe best winner of the support actor. Later, Kimmel reacted with horror when a woman of Asian origin told Kimmel that her name had rhymed with “jewelry”. When her husband said her name was Patrick, Kimmel replied with a relief simulation: “You see, it’s a name.”

During an event that was recently accused of white supremacy, it was a nice deaf shtick. But Gary, of course, helped deflate it. “I feel like I ignore white celebrities,” said Kimmel. Gary: “Because I’m, however!”

The madness of live television

My stress reflexes have been fully looking at the segment and judging by the reactions of raking on Twitter, I was not alone. It is certainly possible that tourists were only actors, or that they had at least been trained to a greater extent that we have been led to believe. But still, the spectacle of chaos in such a choreographed space, as widely looked at, and as cultivated as the Oscars were fascinating. At the very end of the night, viewers would remember what makes television live like this electrifying – the potential for disaster and miracles.