So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

On its face, the line is a deadpan question whose humor depends on the Cannes Film Festival’s near-synonymy with its host city (Cannes). Read as a celebrity soundbite, it plays as a moment of public gaffe: a famous name asking something that many assume is common knowledge, thereby puncturing the expectation that fame correlates with cultural literacy. In quotation culture, such remarks are often circulated less for their informational content than for what they signal about media training, the pressures of live interviews, and the way audiences relish “human” slips from highly managed public figures.