About

Jean Dujardin Sleeping is a photoshop meme that uses a photo of French actor Jean Dujardin laying his head on actor George Clooney's shoulder with his eyes closed.

Origin

On February 6th, 2012, during a luncheon in Beverly Hills, California for Oscar nominees, an AP photographer snapped a photo of actor Jean Dujardin^[1] joking around and pretending to fall asleep on George Clooney's^[2] shoulder. Both men were attending the luncheon for their nominations in the Best Actor category^[13]; Dujardin for his work in The Artist^[14] and Clooney for his work in The Descendants.^[15] The photo was published on Metro UK^[3] the next morning.

The next day, a single topic Tumblr titled Jean Sleeping On People^[4] was created by Belgian Tumblr bloggers Jonathan and Roberto^[16], who uploaded six photoshopped versions along with the exploitable template of Dujardin's face. The original contributions included Dujardin sleeping on Barack Obama, Batman, and a teletubby.

Spread

On February 12th, Jezebel^[5] published a compilation of images from the single topic blog. The next day, more images appeared on humor blogs Blame it on the Voices^[6] and Crushable.^[7] Over the next several days, the images were featured on news sites including Gizmodo France^[8], the Daily Dot^[9] and CBS News' Celebrity Circuit^[10] as well as the Sundance Channel blog^[11] and entertainment blog Molempire.^[12]

The images can also be found on Tumblr under the hashtag "Jean Sleeping on People"^[17] as well as the tag for Jean Dujardin^[18] in general.

Notable Examples

Search Interest

Search for Jean Dujardin began to climb in January 2012, most likely due to his Oscar nomination.

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