Love & Passion Quote by Drew Carey

A perfectly engineered self-own disguised as a sex joke, Drew Carey’s line weaponizes male cluelessness and turns it into a punchline about loneliness. The setup invites the listener into a supposedly shared, locker-room assumption: women broadcast desire in a “look,” and men are skilled (or supposed to be) at reading it. Then Carey detonates the premise with two words: “Me neither.” The laugh isn’t just surprise; it’s recognition of the gap between masculine fantasy and lived social awkwardness.

The intent is disarming. Instead of framing women as prizes or mysteries, Carey frames himself as the problem - not in a confessional, pity-seeking way, but in a way that gives the audience permission to admit their own insecurities without saying them out loud. That’s classic late-90s/early-2000s stand-up DNA: the “lovable everyman” who undercuts macho confidence by exposing its fragility. The joke works because it flips the power dynamic. The male speaker, who could easily be cast as the pursuer, becomes the oblivious bystander.

The subtext is also about social scripts. If men are trained to chase “signals” and women are trained to be indirect, then of course there’s room for misreads, missed cues, and comedic despair. Carey’s delivery implies a world where desire is supposedly obvious - except to the people most obsessed with finding it. That tension is the engine: horny cultural certainty meets private uncertainty, and the uncertainty wins.