--- ---  # Jack Antonoff Eating This Banana at the VMAs Is All of Us by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 28, 2017 1:19 AM UTC  Jack Antonoff arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Inglewood, Calif. Jack Antonoff arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Inglewood, Calif.Chris Pizzello—Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 28, 2017 1:19 AM UTC Sometimes it take a banal piece of fruit to say it all. Case in point: Jack Antonoff snacking on a banana during the [2017 MTV Video Music Awards](http://time.com/4914128/mtv-video-music-awards-2017-winners/). The Bleachers singer was captured on camera treating himself to a potassium-rich treat during host [Katy Perry’s opening monologue](http://time.com/4917847/katy-perry-mtv-vmas-monologue-jokes/) on Sunday evening. Naturally, Twitter went bananas: > [](https://twitter.com/hunter%5Fwesley/status/901962076096225280) > [](https://twitter.com/ezwrites/status/901961927345283073) > [](https://twitter.com/thenewnine/status/901970791885144064) > [](https://twitter.com/DavidOfTheState/status/901967963540127744) Even Antonoff’s girlfriend Lena Dunham weighed in: > [](https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/901962428010942467) Awards show or not, can’t let that blood sugar get too low. 2017 MTV Music Awards: Jack Antonoff Eating a Banana ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4917893/jack-antonoff-mtv-vmas-banana/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4917893/jack-antonoff-mtv-vmas-banana/"},"headline":"Jack Antonoff Eating This Banana at the VMAs Is All of Us","datePublished":"2017-08-28T01:19:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:51.036Z","description":"Yum","url":"https://time.com/4917893/jack-antonoff-mtv-vmas-banana/","keywords":["Newsfeed","awards","Music","onetime","MTV VMAs 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7951e67d1dbf47af/6988db670a4a2240ad9cfa8e/mtv-video-music-awards-53.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7951e67d1dbf47af/6988db670a4a2240ad9cfa8e/mtv-video-music-awards-53.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MTV-VMAS-2017","caption":"Jack Antonoff","creditText":"Chris Pizzello—Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4917893/jack-antonoff-mtv-vmas-banana/","name":"Jack Antonoff Eating This Banana at the VMAs Is All of Us"}}]}] ```