A journalist who asked the dumbest question ever at a press conference for the movie Gravity insists it was a joke AN ENTERTAINMENT reporter from a Mexican TV show insists he was joking when he asked the dumbest question ever at a press conference. The journo was humiliated after asking Alfonso Cuaron, the director of science fiction thriller Gravity , "What were the technical and human difficulties of filming in space? Other members of the press in the room tried to stifle their giggles as the amused director responded, "We were in space for three-and-a-half months. The journalist, Carlos "El Capi" Pérez, has been bagged out relentlessly on Twitter since the press conference, but he did his best to fight back. However, on todays episode of Deberían Estar Trabajando, the Mexican TV show that the reporter works for, they claimed it was all an elaborate prank. "What Mr. Capi did was to be irreverent," the hosts said. Mr. Cuarón fell for it and did it very politely by replying to that question. The media, some took it aggressively while others not so much, but this is the show and we are happy that you are here.