Funny Background Event / Real Life

• This is Photobomb is devoted to pictures and videos of people goofing it up in the background of events.
  • In the last couple of years, photobombing has become a full-out fad. Most photobombs these days are not random happenstance, but generally orchestrated by the photobomber. The 2014 Oscars ceremony raised photobombing to an art form, with respected actors like Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin Spacey, Anne Hathaway, and Jared Leto all getting in on the act.
  • There's even a royal photobomb courtesy of Elizabeth II!
• During an ESPN interview of 14-year-old skateboarding prodigy Michie Brusco another young skateboarder is seen going through the half-pipe — on his back, with his board a few feet away.
• During an Australian news broadcast, office workers are going about their business... except for one guy who opens his email and starts going through nude pics of model Miranda Kerr. While on a live broadcast. Cue Oh, Crap! when he realises he's on live TV.
  • This is pretty common in news articles the world over, although not all of them are accidental.
• This awesome child.
• This girl's little brother.
• Girl sitting on a train at playground.
• This video of a sleepy kitten trying to stay awake. Many commenters have pointed out that the kitten's brothers and sisters wrestling and jumping on each other in the background is more fun to watch than the kitten.
• This is largely the point of the Brazilian Tenso meme — to zoom in on a bizarre event/face buried in the picture that would probably not have been noticed otherwise.
• This happens to everyone. People are always doing stuff that most people don't have the context to, so you could see someone doing something weird or nonsensical to you, but it could make perfect sense to the person performing said action. Just go to a comic con, for example, and you find a lot of people doing unusual things or wearing unusual clothing.
• This news report interviewee was slightly upstaged by an accident happening behind him.
• There was an infamous interview that is often shown on British outtake compilations from the news once where a spokesperson was discussing how the stretch of motorway he was on was quite safe... while behind him several cars crashed.
• There is a gif of a couple clips from a newscast that plays this trope for laughs, especially given it was edited to where the background event is made hilarious.
• In a study conducted by the American researcher Daniel Simons, people were told to count the number of passes in a ball game. The real point was whether or not the subject would notice a person in a gorilla suit walking through the game - about 50% of people did not!
• This Finnish live broadcast about vandalism is pure gold with some kids ruining it.
• In sports, the Bearcats love this trope.
• There is a famous You've Been Framed clip taking place on a pier where one guy is being filmed talking in the foreground...while in the background, a woman is attempting to put up her umbrella which results in her being carried away by the wind and into the water.
  • In another clip, a little girl is being filmed bouncing on a trampoline while in the background, a second little girl attempts to put a garbage bag in a wheely bin. The second girl ends up falling in the bin.
• A staple of many news blooper compilation videos on YouTube.
  • A prime example occurs at 5:40 on this blooper compilation when a man is being interviewed, oblivious to the fact another man dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow is carrying on behind him.
• After BBC News moved into a new studio with glass walls, its staff started to entertain viewers with picking noses, hugging and using umbrellas as lightsabers. This led to quite a bit of controversy when these antics kept happening in the background of news reports about grave incidents, where such humour would be deeply inappropriate.
• A Wall Street prank: two guys making out during a Lehman Brothers bankruptcy reportage.
• While Paul Rudd was being interviewed at the San Diego Comic-Con 2014 for Ant-Man, his MCU co-star, Mark Ruffalo, is seen walking behind him and mouths, "Is that Paul Rudd?"
• Sarah Palin is interviewed while turkeys die in the background and never notices.
• During an interview on BBC News with American professor Robert Kelly about South Korea ousting its president, his toddler daughter entered the office, soon followed by her brother in his infant walker, to Kelly's visible consternation. Then their horrified mother rushes in, drags the kids out, and reaches in to pull the door shut afterward.
• In this Entertainment Tonight interview of The Defenders (2017) cast. At one point, Élodie Yung (Elektra) and Jessica Henwick (Colleen Wing) duck down simultaneously behind Mike Colter and Finn Jones, like someone is saying "All those brainwashed by the Hand, please sit down."
• This news report of a mother and father almost losing their autistic son for good is ruined when said autistic son twiddles his fingers and yells Non-Sequiturs in the background.
• During an old showing of BBC Grandstand, the host, Des Lynam, is announcing the daily programme line-up while a fight breaks out between the technical staff in the office behind him. It's an April Fools joke.
• American Football player Tarik Cohen made a live video on Instagram from the locker room celebrating his team's victory one day, meanwhile teammate Kyle Long is casually undressing in the background, exposing everything on the livestream. Cohen later took down the video after realizing he accidentally shot voyeur porn^note As for why Cohen didn't notice right away, teammates get so used to seeing each other naked that it probably didn't even register for him until it was brought to his attention later, but not before it made the rounds on social media. Long, to his credit, has laughed it off.
• Also in the NFL, while Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Leonard Fournette's was doing a post-game press conference, his teammate Vita Vea was in the background carrying out a jersey swap with an opponent. Under most circumstances this sort of thing would be too mundane to draw much notice ... but this time there was the small matter of Vea getting stuck in his jersey while trying to take it off, eventually requiring a staff member to come in and help liberate him.
• The COVID-19 pandemic has been a goldmine of such events due to people forced to stay at home using videoconferencing to stay in touch with work, including news staff, many of whom have pets who don't care that their owner is in the middle of something.
• Formula One's TV intro for the 2020 season has a pair of Crosses the Line Twice examples, courtesy of clips from previous seasons that play in the background while the 2020 drivers are shown:
  • Sebastian Vettel's appearance is accompanied by footage of his infamous collision with teammate Mark Webber at the 2010 Turkish Grand Prix (though not, sadly, the just-as-infamous "cuckoo" gesture with which Vettel responded to the crash).
  • Max Verstappen's appearance is accompanied by footage of his father Jos' car being engulfed in flames at the 1994 German Grand Prix^note Verstappen Sr., it should be stressed, was perfectly fine.
  • During coverage of Kubica and Sutil's pit lane collision in Hungary in 2010 Nico Rosberg is cruising by in the background on only three wheels, but goes unnoticed by the commentators due to the collision.
• On February 1, 2021, there was a Military Coup in Myanmar. This produced viral footage of Khing Hnin Wai, Physical Education Teacher at Ministry of Education, doing aerobic exercise on camera as armored vehicles drive by unnoticed.
• Tom Scott
  • As Tom is describing the reason a specific intersection is dangerous, because drivers fail to stop, many cars drive through the stop sign behind him.
  • The entire point of Breaking the News with Matt Gray was to generate these on as many live news broadcasts as possible.
  • Funny foreground event when Jaki Dash is cooking omelettes live on his stream, and Tom just walks through frame and says "Good morning, Internet" while waving. No one watching had any idea before that point that Tom was with them that day.

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