Gentlemen, It Is With Great Pleasure To Inform You That Meme Template
This image is Colonel Toad (also called Sir Toad), an anthropomorphic toad portrait used in image macros. Know Your Meme traces the print’s online appearance to 2011 and reports that the watercolor was based on Ingres’s 19th-century portrait of French journalist Louis-François Bertin; it is not Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows. The image later became associated with “It’s Wednesday, my dudes” and with formal announcement memes. In the common “Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure to inform you that X” variant, the pompous opening introduces news that is usually wholesome, amusing, or mundane; the contrast between ceremonious delivery and ordinary news makes the joke.
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What the Gentlemen, It Is With Great Pleasure To Inform You That meme means
This image is Colonel Toad (also called Sir Toad), an anthropomorphic toad portrait used in image macros. Know Your Meme traces the print’s online appearance to 2011 and reports that the watercolor was based on Ingres’s 19th-century portrait of French journalist Louis-François Bertin; it is not Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows. The image later became associated with “It’s Wednesday, my dudes” and with formal announcement memes. In the common “Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure to inform you that X” variant, the pompous opening introduces news that is usually wholesome, amusing, or mundane; the contrast between ceremonious delivery and ordinary news makes the joke.
A square illustration shows a solemn, upright toad in a dark formal coat, striped waistcoat, and white cravat, seated in a wooden chair against a muted green background. The top and bottom of the image are clear for captions.
How the joke works
Slot 1 (top) gives the formal announcement lead-in, usually “GENTLEMEN, IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE TO INFORM YOU THAT…” Slot 2 (bottom) completes the sentence with the good, funny, or pleasantly mundane news. Make the second line a clear completion, not a separate joke. The humor comes from presenting ordinary or personally exciting news with exaggerated ceremony; keep it upbeat, self-aware, and concise.
- Top caption: use the formal announcement lead-in, often “Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure to inform you that…”
- Bottom caption: complete the announcement with the specific good, funny, or pleasantly mundane news.
Caption examples
- GENTLEMEN, IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE TO INFORM YOU THAT
- THE WEEKEND HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN
The bottom cleanly completes the pompous announcement with relatable, positive news.
- GENTLEMEN, IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE TO INFORM YOU THAT
- MY PRINTER JAMMED AGAIN
The announcement is negative and reads as an ordinary complaint rather than celebratory irony.
Situations it fits
- Sharing a small personal win as if it were a grand public announcement
- Announcing a wholesome or anticipated event
- Celebrating an ordinary milestone with mock ceremony
- Sharing amusing good news with a group
When this format does not fit
- Do not put bad news or a complaint after “with great pleasure” unless the contradiction is clearly the joke.
- Do not make the two lines unrelated; the bottom should complete the announcement above.
- Avoid cruel, hateful, or serious claims disguised as a formal announcement.
- Do not identify the toad as Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows; this image is Colonel Toad.
