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Wicker Meme Fallout: Actor's 'Friend' Made Forty Memes in His Tub

A fictional actor weighs in on the Wicker meme fallout. The whole segment, as it aired. Guests who wandered in, and the anchors who let them.

On air
Vera Bullock, with Marcus Ellery Tolliver (Actor and Scarecrow Enthusiast)
Aired
on Late Night BBN
Length
1:56
“Fine. Allegedly, the friend posted forty memes at three a.m. from my bathtub. He cried after the one with the basket.”
Marcus Ellery Tolliver

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What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

  1. Vera BullockOur next guest is an actor who says he has strong feelings about wicker, and tonight he joins us live from a barn.

  2. Vera BullockMarcus Tolliver, welcome.

  3. Marcus Ellery TolliverThank you, Vera. It's lovely to be here, in a barn I am renting for the month, for reasons.

  4. Vera BullockNow, E! News reports that Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård have seen the internet's memes about their upcoming film Wicker, and they are fully aware of the conversation.

  5. Vera BullockThey say they read the comments. What do you make of that?

  6. Marcus Ellery TolliverBrave. Allegedly, a friend of mine made a few of those memes, and he's been living it down ever since.

  7. Vera BullockA friend. Good. I was at seven out of ten on this story earlier, because now the actors are in the group chat with us.

  8. Marcus Ellery TolliverSeven is fair. I'd say eight, if the friend were credited properly.

  9. Vera BullockCredited. Interesting word. Tell us about your own project first.

  10. Marcus Ellery TolliverIt's called The Last Bale, a gripping drama in which I play a scarecrow who learns to feel. It's method.

  11. Marcus Ellery TolliverI haven't left the field since June.

  12. Vera BullockSince June.

  13. Marcus Ellery TolliverThe crows respect me now. One of them follows me to the catering table.

  14. Vera BullockLet me ask you the hard one. Is the friend who made the memes sitting next to you right now?

  15. Marcus Ellery TolliverAllegedly, a friend of mine, who wears my jacket and shares my phone and my exact haircut, is not here.

  16. Vera BullockYour phone.

  17. Marcus Ellery TolliverFine. Allegedly, the friend posted forty memes at three a.m. from my bathtub. He cried after the one with the basket.

  18. Vera BullockSpeaking of baskets, you keep opening that little one next to you. Time for a lightning round. Favorite wicker item?

  19. Marcus Ellery TolliverThe picnic basket. Next question.

  20. Vera BullockBest meme about Colman and Skarsgård?

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