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In a shocking turn of events, because in all the years they have been on TV they’ve never been accused of being out-of-touch or tone-deaf, Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner got laughed at by the Emmys audience and people on social media for something they said during their presentation of the Best Reality Competition Program award.
During their little speech on stage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night, Kardashian introduced the category they were presenting by saying, “Our family knows first-hand how truly compelling television comes from real people, just being themselves.”
She was being serious. That was not intended to be a joke. A bunch of people in the Emmys audience laughed anyway, interrupting Jenner’s next line, “Telling their stories unfiltered and unscripted.”
Again, not a joke, but it should have been because as many on social media pointed out, both of those lines were pretty damn laughable.
Kim Kardashian: Our family knows firsthand how truly compelling television comes from REAL people, just being themselves.
Crowd: 😂😂😂#Emmys pic.twitter.com/TsAVTQDsLJ
— Evan Cleaver (@EvanCleaver) September 23, 2019
https://twitter.com/ScottFeinberg/status/1175934855281958912
Naturally, because they are who they are, social media had a field day making fun of Kim and Kendall.
https://twitter.com/ohokjoey/status/1175935834047930368
https://twitter.com/David_Onda/status/1175934969333649409
Kim Kardashian: "Our family knows first-hand how truly compelling television comes from real people just being themselves."
Kendall Jenner: "Telling their stories, unfiltered and unscripted."
The rest of us:#Emmys pic.twitter.com/NW9ZaFhEZO
— Ishani Nath (@ishaninath) September 23, 2019
Wait did the audience just laugh at the Kardashians?! #Emmys pic.twitter.com/AF8GPBbZ9M
— beyoncé’s chrome coochie (@TheTerriDiaries) September 23, 2019
THE AUDIENCE LAUGHING WHEN KIM AND KENDALL SAID THEIR SHOW WAS "REAL PEOPLE BEING THEMSELVES UNSCRIPTED" AND IT WAS NOT A LAUGH LINE AOSJDNDJXLD #Emmys
— natalie (@natalieegrim) September 23, 2019
The audience laugh when Kim Kardashian said her family knows about real people. #Emmys pic.twitter.com/as55V2akqC
— #wandpocket 👩🏻🎤 (@311tessa) September 23, 2019
DID THE AUDIENCE JUST LAUGH AT KIM KARDASHIAN SAYING “Real people telling real stories about themselves” at the #Emmys?!?
I truly thought I heard them laugh at her for that line. Y’all so shady 😂
— Shem (@Shem) September 23, 2019
Did everyone just laugh after The Kardashians after said something how they “are just being themselves?” Haha
So awkward. #Emmys2019 pic.twitter.com/2bcWjZVVBl
— 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕪𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕗𝕄𝕖 (@MessyMindofMe) September 23, 2019
The entire room cackling at Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner when they presented Outstanding Competition Program is a whole mood. They really set them up with their lines about being "unscripted" and stuff, didn't they? #Emmys
— Philiana (@insidethetube) September 23, 2019
The audience laughing at the Kardashian sisters at the Emmys was pretty brilliant
— Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) September 23, 2019
Eeeek. There was a very loud laugh from the audience when Kim Kardashian was presenting. Laughing at her; not with her. It was uncomfortable (and, in my opinion, uncalled for) in the room. #Emmys
— Elizabeth Wagmeister (@EWagmeister) September 23, 2019