Keke Palmer Credits Her “Sorry to This Man” Meme to Today’s Younger Generation

It was the meme heard around the world. When Keke Palmer took Vanity Fair‘s lie detector test and truthfully uttered that she did not, in fact, know who former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was (a historic moment that you can see in the above video starting at 3:08), Twitter users were quick to seize.

Suddenly, Palmer’s unintentional lapse in identification of prominent politicians—“I hate to say it, I hope I don’t sound ridiculous, I don’t know who this man is. I mean, he could be walking down the street, and I wouldn’t know a thing. Sorry to this man.”—became 2019’s favorite and probably most well-known meme.

Of the iconic incident, Palmer tells BAZAAR.com in our spring cover story, “I honestly give credit to Twitter. It was like a perfect little sound bite that people could add to a million different stories. That’s why I say our generation inspires me so much. The voice. The creativity. I mean, it’s masterful. They gave it life.”

After the lie detector test, Palmer appeared on Watch What Happens Live and revealed her newfound opinion of Cheney, the extremely unpopular vice president now known for his involvement in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.

“After finding out who he is,” Palmer said, “I’m glad I didn’t know.”

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