Tommy Lee Jones Is the Meme Champion of the Golden Globes

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Esther Zuckerman 65,603 Views Jan 14, 2013

During last night's Golden Globes Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell did a quite amusing bit when announcing the nominees for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical, riffing on their films while acting as if they had no idea what the films were actually about. 

Tommy Lee Jones, the subject of an instantly notorious camera cutaway when his (absent) Hope Springs co-star Meryl Streep's nomination was announced, did not seem to be getting the joke. 

And thus, he became the meme champion of Sunday night's show, and the Internet has woken up Monday to several viral iterations of that face above. Like so:

Tommy Lee Jones as Grumpy Cat
Some noticed that the Lincoln actor had a doppelgänger: Internet favorite Grumpy Cat.

Tommy Lee Jones Is Not Impressed 
The face he made also drew comparisons to McKayla Maroney's famous "not impressed" face, and, of course, a hashtag was born

Tommy Lee Jones Doesn't Laugh
A Tumblr now chronicles Tommy Lee Jones not laughing at things. He, for instance, does not find I Love Lucy amusing: 

No Fun Tommy Lee Jones
And of course Jones's face fit perfectly within this already established meme


 

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