Jim Carrey Crashes NY Fashion Week Event At Plaza Hotel, Has Existential Meltdown

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — Don't worry, guys: Anarchy and anti-ego (and some really good acid, apparently) were alive and kicking at New York Fashion Week 2017. Just when it seemed the influx of Gigis and Kendalls and hand-bedazzled vagina skirts may have churned the city to a pulp of idolatry and materialism beyond repair, comedic legend Jim Carrey, 55, wandered onto a red carpet at the on-the-market Plaza Hotel at 5th and 59th last Friday night to shake the sheeple of NYC from slumber with some (100 percent earnest) hippie science he says he picked up while getting into character for his 1999 film "Man on the Moon."

Carrey ostensibly showed up to the Harper's Bazaar "Icons" party that night to promote his latest film, "Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond," a documentary about the making of the 1999 classic. But the priority of Carrey's crash, it soon became clear, was to spread his special brand of truth and nihilism where it was needed most.

"There's no meaning to any of this," Carrey told E! News host Catt Saddler. "I wanted to find the most meaningless thing I could come to and join — and here I am."

Footage of their exchange has since been viewed nearly 2 million times on YouTube:

"I mean, you gotta admit, it's completely meaningless," Carrey says on camera.

After a brief silence, Saddler manages to stammer back, her smokey eyes wide with horror and regret: "Well, they say they're celebrating icons inside. Do you believe in icons?"

Ha! "Celebrating icons!" Carrey marvels, pulling a slight yet unmistakable Ace Ventura bend-back for emphasis. "Wow. That is just the absolute lowest-aiming possibility we could come up with."

Icons are but a construct of the human imagination, Carrey informs his host — as, in fact, are humans themselves. "I don't believe that you exist," he explains to Saddler, calling her instead "a field of energy dancing for itself."

Saddler finally gathers herself just enough to lob something of a hard-hitter. "But Jim, you got really dressed up for the occasion," she says. "You look good. Was that an accident?"

Nice try, lady. "No, I didn't get dressed up," Carrey says. "There is no me. There's just things happening. And there are clusters of tetrahedrons moving around together."

As much as old-school Carrey fans may want to blame his epic existential meltdown of 2017 on a nice, strong batch of Burning Man leftovers, the middle-aged comedian appears to be sticking by his whole "tetrahedrons" theory. A couple days after the Plaza Hotel party, he explained told another interviewer at the Toronto International Film Festival of his creative process: "I thought I had become Andy Kaufman, but there was no 'me,' actually, at the end of it all."

Carrey continued: "The difference between 'a house' and 'my house' is a world of difference. And it's the 'my' that's the problem. You can do all this without the 'my' involved. You can do it in a way that life isn't happening to you — it's happening for the good of everyone. It's a play. It's a giant field of consciousness dancing for itself." (Video below.)

"People say, 'Well, I have a soul,'" he said. "You don't have a soul. There's no you."

But much like Saddler before him, Carrey's film-fest host wasn't quite picking up what he was putting down. "Listen, you've made me very happy. So thank you for your time today, man," the interviewer said.

"No, actually, I didn't make you happy," Carrey explained patiently, the picture of spiritual duty. "You're not here. You're just a cluster of tetrahedrons — but a pleasant one."

Pictured at top: Jim Carrey, left, and David Copperfield attend the Harper's BAZAAR 'Icons by Carine Roitfeld' party at The Plaza Hotel on Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)