I love Jim Carey, but not as Biden.
Alec Baldwin was Trump. He provided catharsis. He provided comic relief, but Jim Carey isn’t working for me.
I hate that Jim Carey isn’t working for me. I love Jim Carey. I loved him in every role he ever played from In Living Color to The Mask. There was nothing he couldn’t do, until now.
I don’t know why he can’t do Biden. Maybe because he has mastered hyperbole but not subtlety.
Jim Carey, as Biden, scared me before the election. Now that everyone has voted, I’m less worried. Pre-election, I was afraid that he would ruin Biden for people. I was afraid that he would make Biden less appealing and draw attention to his lack of charisma. But then Jim Carey gave Biden too much charisma and that didn’t work either.
On the other hand, I can’t stop thinking about Jim Carey as Biden. Even though I think he was terrible, it resonates.
The fact is, that Jim Carey knows more about comedy than most of us, and I don’t always get the joke right away. Sometimes, after a joke, I say, “I don’t get it”, and the teller looks at me like, “Really? It was so obvious.”
There is a possibility that I don’t get what Jim Carey is doing with the Biden character, and that I don’t understand his joke. I’m willing to admit that.
