"I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing"
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Carrey’s list lands like a joke that’s refusing to be just a joke. The rhythm is classic stand-up escalation: therapy (respectable), colonics (taboo-adjacent), psychic ribbon errands (absurd, consumerist mysticism), then the blunt modern shorthand of “Did the Prozac thing.” It’s funny because it’s specific, and it’s bleak because it’s familiar. He’s not bragging about self-improvement; he’s staging a tour of America’s coping-industrial complex, where every path to relief has a checkout counter and a promise.
The intent reads less like confession than like preemptive disarming. By mocking his own search, he takes control of the narrative before the audience can label him “broken” or “Hollywood crazy.” The subtext is a quiet indictment: even with money, access, and cultural permission to “work on yourself,” there’s no guaranteed exit from pain. The ribbon detail matters because it turns spiritual seeking into busywork, a scavenger hunt for meaning that looks suspiciously like shopping.
“Did the Prozac thing” is the sharpest turn. He doesn’t say it helped or failed; he says he did it, like ticking a box on a culturally approved checklist. In the late-90s/2000s backdrop of Prozac-as-personality and celebrity oversharing, Carrey’s punchline is that the menu of fixes keeps expanding, but the hunger underneath stays stubbornly human. The comedy is the delivery system; the message is the fatigue.
The intent reads less like confession than like preemptive disarming. By mocking his own search, he takes control of the narrative before the audience can label him “broken” or “Hollywood crazy.” The subtext is a quiet indictment: even with money, access, and cultural permission to “work on yourself,” there’s no guaranteed exit from pain. The ribbon detail matters because it turns spiritual seeking into busywork, a scavenger hunt for meaning that looks suspiciously like shopping.
“Did the Prozac thing” is the sharpest turn. He doesn’t say it helped or failed; he says he did it, like ticking a box on a culturally approved checklist. In the late-90s/2000s backdrop of Prozac-as-personality and celebrity oversharing, Carrey’s punchline is that the menu of fixes keeps expanding, but the hunger underneath stays stubbornly human. The comedy is the delivery system; the message is the fatigue.
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| Topic | Mental Health |
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