Video of Paris the Night She Went to Jail
Commentary by Tim Horrigan, June 4, 2007
Just hours before she went to jail, Paris Hilton attended the MTV Movie Awards. And, not too surprisingly, the emcee, Sarah Silverman made her the butt of a joke. It was a rather lame joke about painting the bars of Paris's jail cell to look like penises— though Sarah worried that Paris might break her teeth on the bars.
Paris tried very hard to laugh at herself, but this time she just couldn't do it. I almost felt sorry for her— even though she didn't even have to show up at the event at all. The joke wasn't very funny, but Jack Nicholson's reaction is highly amusing, and the crowd cheered wildly.
There are many YouTube videos of this joke. Here is one of the best ones I found (may have been taken down by Viacom already, whose lawyers have been playing "Whac-A-Mole" with video uploaders.):
I was amused by the people who recorded the awards show by pointing a camera at the screen (a huge step backwards in technology— like 50-plus years backwards to the age of kinescopes.) Click below to see an especially bad example. Evidently someone pointed their cellphone camera at the screen of a computer which was logged on to YouTube. And then of course, they just had to upload the cellphone video to YouTube:
I was also amused by MC Artificial's response rap:
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