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TikTok
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
An increasingly urgent text conversation keeps interrupting a phone user’s TikTok binge. Fitness pitches, food reviews, a homemade-lifestyle account, livestreams and celebrity encounters compete for his attention as he repeatedly postpones leaving.
The feed loops back to familiar faces, including political figures trying their own online tactics. While he watches another clip, the messages reveal just how consequential his delay has become.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 21
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Highly quotable.
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Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:11
Bekka Jay
Guys, TikTok shop, 30% off. My cortisol has dropped. Woo!
- 00:17
Keith Lee
Okay, so today I am trying the Hennessy Habanero Fruity Pebble Chicken Sandwich from Lisa's Soul Food in Atlanta. I'm not gonna lie, y'all. That's nasty.
- 00:30
Came out this way, had to explain. Direct from Domingo.
- 00:34
Greta Meadows
Today my husband asked for beef tacos, and I didn't want to let him down, so I slaughtered our cow and picked the corn myself.
- 00:43
The
- 00:51
The Salad Goddess
roses, yum. The roses, yum.
- 00:56
Dr Omar
My black brothers, we must protect the bloodline. Resist the temptation of the snow bunny. You don't want it.
- 01:02
Bekka Jay
See how I'm vibrating off my cellulite? Very demure, very mindful.
- 01:06
Hey, baby, you want...
- 01:07
Alex Cooper
What is up, Daddy Gang? It is your founding father. Today's topic is when to put a finger in. Our guest today is Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas.
- 01:23
Harry Daniels
Kamala, it's me, Pete. Can I sing to you? Making my way downtown, walking past faces, past some homebound, period.
- 01:30
Kamala Harris
Thank you. That was singing. Yes. Wait, what the...
- 01:36
Bethenny Frankel
Look at this crab meat. It's sick. It's insane. Looks nice.
- 01:40
Danny Nahbrah
Yo, come on, chat. Chill. I'm not gonna light the fireworks in my frickin' basement, brah. Oh! Oh, yeah! Yo, yeah! Fuck off!
- 01:50
Danny Nahbrah
Thank you for being here, Mr. President.
- 01:52
Donald Trump
Yes, well, they tell me you're a tremendous success in terms of views and with regard to virgins, so it's a great honor.
- 02:04
Nick Kosir
There's an evacuation order in place.
- 02:09
Keith Lee
So this is part 55 of my beef with the chilis on Jefferson Avenue. See, they know they wrong, because they're little...
- 02:17
Kamala Harris
Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally. I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street. Excuse me, I'm speaking.
- 02:37
Harry Daniels
Mr. President, can I sing to you?
- 02:39
Donald Trump
Uh, yes.
- 02:40
Harry Daniels
Where are you? And I'm so sorry.
- 02:43
Donald Trump
Yeah. Wow, that was terrible. That was really bad. Didn't like that at all. That was really bad. Well, yes.
- 02:49
Keith Lee
Part 71. They gave me placebo cheese sticks.
- 02:53
Greta Meadows
As a 22-year-old mother of 10, I like to do everything by hand. Today, my kids wanted a color, but we were all out of paper. so I matched up my law degree to make more paper for my kids.
- 03:11
Joe Biden
My cortisol is dropping. This is the thing vibrating. The legs are getting fit and strong. Oh!
- 03:19
Harry Daniels
Excuse me, Ms. Eilish, can I sing to you? Can you pretend that airplane is the night?
- 03:23
Herself
Here's 10 grand. Please stop following me.
- 03:25
Yeah.
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