Trevor Noah Said Jim Carrey Helped Him Realize He Was Depressed
Sometimes you don’t realize you’re quietly suffering until a friend helps bring it to light. Recently, while accepting the Comedy Person of the Year Award at the Just For Laughs comedy festival this week, Daily Show hose Trevor Noah got super personal.
“You can’t win at comedy. Every comedian knows, you’re going to have your good days, you’re going to have your bad days, but you don’t win,” he said. “Winning is getting to the end without committing suicide, and Jim Carrey was one of the first comedians that described the beast that many of us face in this room and that’s depression.”
He continued, “I didn’t know what that thing was. I just thought I liked sleeping for weeks on end sometimes, and then I read [Carrey’s] story and I was like, ‘Oh s–t, that’s what’s going on,’ and I thank you because, you know, I found a way to fight it. I found a way to build a community and that’s what this place is, it’s a community of people trying to do something.”
Jim Carey has said in interviews before that he’s been on the antidepressant Prozac for a while, but “had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything’s just OK.”