There’s a running bit at the Oscars tonight where Jimmy Kimmel offered a jet ski to the actor or actress with the shortest speech. The prize was later sweetened in the broadcast with a trip to a Days Inn hotel in Lake Havasu, Arizona, which Kimmel mocked in the presentation:
Jimmy is really serious about keeping these speeches short. The award now includes a trip to Lake Havasu! #Oscars pic.twitter.com/j9T0OuPrRd
— Screen Rant (@screenrant) March 5, 2018
The blue-check mob jumped on board, too:
#Oscars: Maybe you have to live in California to know how funny that Lake Havasu joke is.
— Tim Gray (@timgray_variety) March 5, 2018
Who wouldn't want to win this? #LakeHavasu #Oscars pic.twitter.com/DpYgNdR6Zt
— Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) March 5, 2018
LOL, Lake Havasu! So they can hang with Vicky from Real Housewives of Orange County. #Oscars
— Erin Evans (@heyerinevans) March 5, 2018
Lake Havasu is not great.
— Melissa Francis (@MelissaAFrancis) March 5, 2018
The Days Inn at Lake Havasu is just $83/night. 3.6 stars. "Just 30 miles from Needles" per one site. #Oscars
— Rob Zerwekh (@zerwekh) March 5, 2018
Three days in Lake Havasu is punishment for shoplifting in some countries
— Funny Or Die (@funnyordie) March 5, 2018
Laugh it up, Hollywood. Mocking affordable travel destinations is how you got Trump:
Ok no but I’ve *actually* been to the Days Inn in Lake Havasu City. GET OUT OF HERE WITH YOUR ELITIST SHADE, JIMMY.
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) March 5, 2018
So… making fun of people who vacation at Lake Havasu or stay at a Days Inn makes you the assholes, you realize that, right, #Oscars?
— Laura Helmuth (@laurahelmuth) March 5, 2018
Oh who would ever want to go to Lake Havasu when you can go to Jackson Hole on your private plane and then ski at the Yellowstone, Johnny
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 5, 2018
Lame is right:
@jimmykimmel and Oscars making fun of the common people with jet ski and Lake Havasu bit #lame
— Kevin Marino (@kevinmarino59) March 5, 2018
So the entitled and detached Hollywood people love poking fun at the normal people like us who save for months to afford to vacation with their family and stay at the Days Inn in a place like Lake Havasu. #9Oscars
— Darren (@DarrenC347) March 5, 2018
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RIGHT on cue! WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel encourages Oscar winners to plug gun control march https://t.co/1EVHzwjFBI
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 5, 2018
JACKASS ALERT! Did Jimmy Kimmel blow it with this Oscars swipe at Mike Pence or WHAT? https://t.co/hwb2RKaQyk
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 5, 2018