Peter Dutton is the internet's punchline. He is the Bing of people.

Immigration Minister and boiled cabbage Peter Dutton has not been the government’s golden boy lately. After being widely mocked for saying that Fairfax Media is waging “a bit of a jihad” against the government a couple of weeks ago, earlier today he was caught out joking about Pacific island nations being swallowed up by the sea at a press conference, before being reminded that he was standing directly under a boom microphone and making the same face a crash-test dummy makes when the Kia Sorento hits the wall.

You can actually pinpoint the moment when Immigration Minister Peter Dutton realises the microphone is on. pic.twitter.com/OUfJlFaZBt — Alice Workman (@workmanalice) September 11, 2015

tfw when ur m8 tells you there’s a boom mike above your fucking stupid head pic.twitter.com/E4xUhx7KQM — Bec Shaw (@Brocklesnitch) September 11, 2015

The very serious political and diplomatic implications of a senior government minister joking about an issue like this aside, one of the silver linings of this colossal fuck-up has been the forceful collective reminder that Peter Dutton is the internet’s punchline. He’s like if Gob Bluth and Alexander Downer had a baby, and then abandoned that baby in a Red Rooster. Peter Dutton is the Bing of people.

This is something that people have noticed for a while, and today’s monumental display of Peter Dutton-ness was just another excuse for the internet to point it out:

freeze frame of peter dutton’s face when he realizes he’s on mic pic.twitter.com/5bpJoDABai — thomas violence (@thomas_violence) September 11, 2015

Peter Dutton right now: pic.twitter.com/gZEP8wQW1C — Monkey Force (@jonkudelka) September 11, 2015

Peter Dutton’s life, accompanied by the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme — j.r. hennessy (@jrhennessy) September 11, 2015

Peter Dutton has been the world’s largest schadenfreude magnet for a long time, even when he hasn’t done or said anything particularly noteworthy. Maybe people aren’t even aware of why they mock Peter Dutton, which somehow makes it all the more satisying. He’s the poor schmo slipping on a banana peel in a 1920s gag reel, only the banana peel is the whole world.

peter dutton looks like paul Keating was bitten by a radioactive spoon pic.twitter.com/IdbLCuHM4B — keen online poster (@jonathonio) August 31, 2015

Peta Duten chew on some corrugated cardboard — Kevin Rudd 2000 (@Rudd2000) August 5, 2014

absolutely loving this poorly cropped picture of Peter Dutton pic.twitter.com/jRbuYNJKWO — Michael J. Roddan (@MichaelRoddan) September 1, 2015

Undoubtedly the greatest cataloguer of Peter Dutton’s unique glumpness is Sydney comedian, Checkout presenter and sometime Junkee contributor Ben Jenkins, who has devoted an extraordinary amount of energy to pinpointing whatever it is that makes Australia’s current Immigration Minister the human equivalent of a sad trombone sound.

On a bus with rowdy teens not two days ago, I had to beg them to stop chanting the name of Peter Dutton, member for Dickson and teen fave. — Ben Jenkins (@bencjenkins) August 18, 2015

Look there’s never a great day to wake up and find yourself still Peter Dutton, but this can’t be a good one. — Ben Jenkins (@bencjenkins) August 30, 2015

I reckon if we all put our minds to it we could convince Peter Dutton that he is in The Truman Show. — Ben Jenkins (@bencjenkins) May 30, 2015

So serious is Jenkins in his mission, he even tries to inhabit the mind of Peter Dutton himself — a dangerous endeavour, given imagining yourself as Peter Dutton is pretty much the dictionary definition of “gazing into the abyss”.

At this point, I’m starting to get worried about him.

Jenkins’ sanity or lack thereof aside, one fact is inescapable: in a government full of Jerrys from Parks and Recreation, Peter Dutton is Kyle. They even look the same.

Peter Dutton, if you’re reading this: you tried, okay buddy? You … you tried.