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Uncle Meme
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The premise
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Relatives gather in a living room to celebrate Emily getting into Stanford business school, but her father, Ron Brenner, keeps steering the conversation toward his nephew Tyler and what exactly he does on the computers at college. Ron finally accuses Tyler of turning him into a meme, puts his ordinary work headshot up on the TV, and walks the family through one vulgar caption after another, tracing how they spread from Reddit to a famous rapper's Twitter and protesting that none of them is even true while the parents react with horror and the occasional stifled laugh. Tyler's parents apologize and Tyler insists his one meme was harmless fun, until Ron reveals what Tyler posted first on his own Reddit account, leaving Tyler caught out in one last meme of his own.
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I'm a meme now, and I don't like it one bit.
The Internet dubbed me the white-collar virgin.
Because I tracked Tyler's Reddit username and his first post was this.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The first of John Mulaney's two Uncle Meme sketches; he and Pete Davidson returned as Ron Brenner and Tyler on his October 31, 2020 episode.
Script
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- 00:00
Ron Brenner
Anyway, to our baby girl, Emily, accepted at Stanford Business School.
- 00:06
Congratulations, sweetie.
- 00:08
Hi, Ron and Emily.
- 00:09
Emily
Aw, thanks, everybody. It's so nice to have family here.
- 00:14
Ron Brenner
That's great. So, Tyler, what about you? You enjoying college?
- 00:21
Tyler
Oh, yeah, Uncle Ron. I'm loving it.
- 00:23
Ron Brenner
Oh, that's nice. They have computers there, yeah?
- 00:27
Tyler
At college? Yeah, yeah, they do.
- 00:29
Ron Brenner
And, uh, do you do anything on it?
- 00:31
Tyler
I don't know, Uncle Ron. I mean, I write papers.
- 00:34
Ron, you all right?
- 00:36
Ron Brenner
I'm talking to your son. You write papers. That's it?
- 00:42
Tyler
Yeah. That's it.
- 00:43
Ron Brenner
You're so slick, huh? You're a liar.
- 00:48
What? Excuse me?
- 00:49
Ron, is everything okay?
- 00:50
Ron Brenner
No, it's actually not okay. He memed me.
- 00:54
I'm sorry. Memed you?
- 00:56
Ron Brenner
Yeah, that's right. My punk nephew, Tyler, made me into a meme. I'm a meme now, and I don't like it one bit.
- 01:04
Emily
Dad, come on. There's no way. Yeah, I'm sure this is just a misunderstanding.
- 01:08
Ron Brenner
Oh, really? Take a look at this.
- 01:10
What?
- 01:11
Ron Brenner
Look at my Facebook profile pic. Perfectly... Perfectly normal, handsome picture of me right at work, right? Now, look at the front page of Reddit.com. when she won a smash but the pee-pee too small what the hell is this
- 01:30
what in the world
- 01:35
Ron Brenner
I know I feel like I'm losing my mind I mean is it supposed to be funny cuz it's not
- 01:39
no it's sick
- 01:41
it's kind of funny though
- 01:42
Ron Brenner
and it's not even true I smash I have a kid damn it
- 01:47
Tyler Tyler, is he right? Did you meme your uncle?
- 01:51
Tyler
Look, it got out of hand. I just made one meme for fun, and then...
- 01:54
Ron Brenner
Fun? Is this fun to you? This next one was tweeted by rapper Ice-T. And he said it was too true. When y'all kissing and she say that'll be $200. I mean, hey, that sucks for me. You get that, right? When you're girl pregnant and you ain't even had sex. Again, I have a daughter. Lies! When you tip the cam girl 10K and she block you.
- 02:26
What?! Now, I don't even get that.
- 02:29
It do be like that sometimes, though.
- 02:32
Well, this is awful. This is not what Melania meant when she said be best.
- 02:38
Ron Brenner
The Internet dubbed me the white-collar virgin. I don't know why. I mean, look at this. There's thousands. Why me?
- 02:45
-"Uncle Ron, I'm so sorry. I would never describe you that way."
- 02:49
Ron Brenner
-"Sorry? This is ruining my life. Do you get that? You do get that, right? This is endless, and they're getting more creative. I guess heaven needed a bitch, so I passed away in this one. Want to know how I got these tiny-ass balls? It's not funny. It's depraved. when Green Book on HBO. Damn it, at least this makes sense. That is how I feel when Green Book on HBO.
- 03:20
Ron, this is a nightmare, and we apologize on behalf of our son.
- 03:25
Tyler, make this right.
- 03:26
Tyler
Look, I never should have started the meme, but I promise you, the one I did was just silly. It wasn't meant to be, like, hurtful.
- 03:31
Thank you. See? Just some gentle ribbing that got out of hand.
- 03:36
Ron Brenner
Oh, interesting. Because I tracked Tyler's Reddit username and his first post was this. That feeling when you... are pedophiles.
- 03:49
Timer!
- 03:50
That moment when your uncle finds the pedophile meme you made of him?
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