Jimmy Kimmel Gets People to Lie About Watching the State of the Union
Only 33.3 million people watched the State of the Union Address on Tuesday — slightly better numbers than the series finale of "Everybody Loves Raymond" — but Jimmy Kimmel found a bunch of people who were happy to pretend they tuned in.
Kimmel recently added a political chapter to his recurring "Lie Witness News" segment, sending a crew out on Monday — the day before Obama's speech — to ask strangers how they thought the president did.
Predictably, everyone involved lied their asses off — with varying success. Obama did not in fact fake a heart attack and bring in a defibrillator, nor did he wear a weird tie, or implement product placement into his speech.
And some of the made up analysis did actually occur — Obama did indeed lay out "a lot of the same policies he's been laying out all along," he was indeed "addressing what everyone was talking about."