--- title: The Woody Harrelson Wimbledon Meme Is Joy in Its Purest Form description: The internet can't stop laughing at the Woody Harrelson Wimbledon meme after TV announcers kept cutting to his antics. canonical: https://time.com/5626399/woody-harrelson-wimbledon-meme/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-15T12:56:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:06.244Z og:title: The Woody Harrelson Wimbledon Meme Is Spreading on the Wings of Joy og:description: The internet has taken note of his antics og:url: https://time.com/5626399/woody-harrelson-wimbledon-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Woody Harrelson Wimbledon Meme Is Spreading on the Wings of Joy twitter:description: The internet has taken note of his antics twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Woody Harrelson Wimbledon Meme Is Officially the Most Amusing Way to Watch Tennis > Sponsored content. 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[Watch (HLS stream): Why Is Tennis Scored So Weirdly?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/lmEqspYj.m3u8) (3:03)  _Published 2018-01-11. All sports have their own vocabularies, the shorthand lingo to communicate intricacies of rules and how play proceeds_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 15, 2019 12:56 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 15, 2019 12:56 PM UTC Leave it to [Woody Harrelson’s](https://time.com/5186700/oscars-2018-matthew-mcconaughey-woody-harrelson-reunion/) face to score a major Wimbledon victory when you least expect it. Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal clinched the Grand Slam in Men’s [doubles on Saturday](https://time.com/5626201/novak-djokovic-wins-wimbledon/). Meanwhile, the internet went wild for something else entirely: Woody Harrelson, the emotive spectator everyone was watching. Captured by the cameras in his seat in the crowd, the [_Zombieland_](https://time.com/3452858/zombieland-sequel/) star made all of the faces during the heated match that saw Nicolas Mahut take a ball to the face and below the belt. (It happens. It’s tennis!) Luckily for the folks at home, the TV announcers knew that in Harrelson, they had comedy gold. And the telecast couldn’t stop cutting to him for his reactions. About those reactions. Harrelson had many noteworthy moves, including — but not limited to — reacting appropriately to Mahut’s injuries, getting blocked from his seat whilst enjoying a beverage, finally getting the clearance to reclaim his seat, and changing into a purple and green-festooned fedora, licking his mouth, and generally living it up. The internet was quick to recognize that this was the real game. In case you missed it, here’s a collection of [Woody Harrelson’s Wimbledon memes](https://time.com/5625828/djokovic-longest-point-ever-wimbledon/). > [](https://twitter.com/maggieserota/status/1150607758959546368) > [](https://twitter.com/BradGalli/status/1150157598315962370) > [](https://twitter.com/LeftCoastLeafs/status/1150120128077414401) > [](https://twitter.com/johnnytoronto99/status/1150180895309086721) > [](https://twitter.com/PointsBetUSA/status/1150132479497592833) > [](https://twitter.com/walsh%5Fi/status/1150157270409469954) > [](https://twitter.com/TylerRuinsTV/status/1150119573477154816) > [](https://twitter.com/RKalland/status/1150132185782870016) > [](https://twitter.com/byChrisJoseph/status/1150121823251718144) > [](https://twitter.com/mfearonsf/status/1150155163044405250) > [](https://twitter.com/TylerRuinsTV/status/1150132973783511040) The genre-hopping actor had a career full of interesting roles and some noteworthy ones recently including _Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri_, for which he nabbed an Oscar nomination. But his role in making tennis even more watchable stands out. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5626399/woody-harrelson-wimbledon-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5626399/woody-harrelson-wimbledon-meme/"},"headline":"The Woody Harrelson Wimbledon Meme Is Officially the Most Amusing Way to Watch Tennis","datePublished":"2019-07-15T12:56:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:06.244Z","description":"The internet can't stop laughing at the Woody Harrelson Wimbledon meme after TV announcers kept cutting to his antics.","url":"https://time.com/5626399/woody-harrelson-wimbledon-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5626399/woody-harrelson-wimbledon-meme/","name":"The Woody Harrelson Wimbledon Meme Is Officially the Most Amusing Way to Watch Tennis"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Why Is Tennis Scored So Weirdly?","description":"All sports have their own vocabularies, the shorthand lingo to communicate intricacies of rules and how play proceeds","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/lmEqspYj/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-01-11T21:34:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/lmEqspYj.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5626399/woody-harrelson-wimbledon-meme/","duration":"PT3M3S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5626399/woody-harrelson-wimbledon-meme/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```