Lie Witness News - SXSW Edition

Jimmy Kimmel Live · 1.8M views · 2014-03-14 · 4:57

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Overview

A Jimmy Kimmel segment in which interviewers at SXSW ask festival-goers about made-up bands, and many people confidently claim to know and like them.

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Used as an illustration of the confident-idiot effect and of people pretending to know things.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2014–2022

Topics

Satire & parody Psychology & human behavior Stand-up & sketch comedy

What people said

dlss · 2014-10 · Recommendation
If anyone is curious about the Kimmel clip, it's on youtube: [VIDEO] The article makes a lot more sense after watching it IMO.
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robocat · 2022-05 · Reference
Bitrot? Missing assets for video and some images (perhaps on iPadOS only?). Jimmy Kimmel’s Lie Witness News SXSW edition link: [VIDEO] “Imagine that the illustration below represents a curved tube lying horizontally on a table:” [LINK] Paper without video links: [LINK]
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kelvin0 · 2014-11 · Joke / meme
For what it's worth, there is also a hilarious sample of the 'hipster' population in this Youtube video (Jimmy Kimmel 0:53 mark) [VIDEO] Of course interviewees in this video are probably paid actors playing dumb, but boy it doesn't the stereotype ...
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