Is the Emmy Audience live during the pandemic? How did Jimmy Kimmel show a live audience?

Jimmy Kimmel hosted 72nd Emmy Awards on Sunday night where he opened with a set of hilarious jokes. But suddenly camera turned to show that numerous celebrities from Hollywood sat in audience. Moreover, y clapped and laughed at his jokes. This left viewers at home baffled and y took to Twitter to express ir disbelief.

Jimmy Kimmel opened with:

Hello and welcome to 'pandemmys'. Wow! It’s great to finally see people again, thank you for risking everything to be here! You kw what y say, ‘You cant have a virus without a host'.

Viewers confused Is Emmy audience live?

chyrons flashed “live” at top right corner of screen which hinted that it was a live audience present at award show. But how come, during one of deliest pandemics, Emmys is hosting so many Hollywood celebrities without any social distancing in jam-packed rows? Netizens flooded twitter with ir questions about same.

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Netizens ask question on Twitter

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Is Emmy audience live?

Five minutes into show, Jimmy Kimmel decided that he should unveil truth and he revealed that re was live audience present. He revealed that audience was digitised and clips were taken from previous seasons of award show. In fact, this year Emmy awards winners received ir awards from home for first time ever.

Jimmy reveals re's audience

one is in audience. That would mean that I am up here all alone.. Just like prom night. Of course I am here all alone.

This isn’t MAGA rally, this is Emmys.

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Netizens react to fake audience

Following this, lights of studio lit up to reveal that chairs were empty with one present re. Netizens reacted to this on Twitter and revealed how stressful it was for m to see people so closely packed to each or during pandemic. Several netizens expressed that y were t impressed with fake audience joke and that Jimmy should have revealed it much earlier. Check out some of tweets below.

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Im credits: Screengrab from show