Twenty years ago, Jim Carrey became America’s “class -clown,” a role he’s maintained since, garnering both acclaim and enmity along the way. Sans an appropriately “zany” belief that vaccines cause autism (wakka wakka!) his career has never been defined by controversy. Depending on the decade you were born in he’s either the comedian you love or the comedian you hate. Lately, the fire-a-spitball-once-the-teacher-turns-her-back performer has taken on a new persona: ... Bumbling Existential Iconoclast ?
As an aspiring bumbling, existential iconoclast, I’m all for exposing “New York Fashion Week” as the onanistic pageant it probably is (don’t know a thing about it-that’s how iconclasty I am) but a part of me is a little uncomfortable with Lloyd Christmas headlining the role of enlightened contrarian. “Spiritual growths” are douchey enough without the added irony of wealth and stardom. Dostoyevsky had to be sentenced to death for a thought crime then spared at the last minute to earn his “awakening,” Malcolm X had to endure decades of systematic racism then trek to Mecca to earn his. Jim Carrey shot the shit with Deepak Chopra at a cocktail party once, presumably not talking from his literal asshole .
The only thing worse than Carey’s histrionics are the pencil necks fawning over it, like a bunch of doe-eyed troglodytes. “ Must watch Jim Carey’s Woke Interview. ” You mean the one where he said fame is meaningless and that he doesn’t believe he actually exists? David Hume eat your fucking heart out, you scottish quack! What’s so prodund about either one of those declarations? The first one is such a god damn truism you should be ashamed to think it much less enunciate it into a microphone, and the second sounds like middle school emo poetry.
Why are these people so easy? Jim Carrey has a beard now and used the word matrix! Hurry get the papyrus. Can we let entertainers just be entertainers? You think anyone gave Don Knotts a ring so he could weigh in on the Cuban missile crisis or anything that didn’t involve slapstick and a sheriff's hat? I don’t give two slim shits about how Selena Gomez feels about Israel and Palestine . Keep all your pontificating and politics at home celebrities, I’m sorry we’re just not that close.
Jim Carrey isn’t experiencing some kind of rebirth. He’s probably bored or experiencing manic trauma considering his girlfriend overdosed a couple of years back leading her family to file a wrongful death suit against him. “Can’t sue a guy that doesn’t exist! Your honor I plead epistemology!”
