Emmys Audience Laughs at Kim Kardashian Line That Wasn't Meant as Joke

"Our family knows firsthand how truly compelling television comes from real people just being themselves. Telling their stories unfiltered and unscripted."

Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner at Emmys
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Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner at Emmys

During Sunday night's airing of the 71st annual Emmys, Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner came out to present an award for outstanding competition series. What was noticeable is that the audience laughed at an unintentionally funny line that elicited chuckles from the crowd that were loud enough to be picked up on the broadcast.

The joke that drew the reaction was this line from Kim: "Our family knows firsthand how truly compelling television comes from real people just being themselves. Telling their stories unfiltered and unscripted."

There was awkward audience laughter when Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner said their family tells their stories "unfiltered and unscripted." Yikes. #Emmys2019 pic.twitter.com/H6XH3g6L1L

— Ryan Schocket (@RyanSchocket) 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

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 grim (@natalieegrim) 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

Social media users keeping tabs also found the humor. 

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

The #Emmys2019 audience are *not* Kardashian fans, as it turns out.https://t.co/BYe3YRtETl

— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) September 23, 2019

Being laughed at for a few seconds to have a net worth of hundreds of millions? Everyone who's ever lived would make that trade-off.

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