I hadn’t seen this. What a dope.

Comedian Jim Breuer announced last week he was cancelling a gig in Montclair and other venues that require proof of vaccination for audience members, and for this we should be thankful, because this is not someone you’d choose to have within particle range when he’s dropping his viral load.

The popular standup comic, looking as though he had just escaped from a week of electrical torture, used Facebook to make his announcement, and his 18-minute post was a breathtaking display of someone trying to disguise ignorance and paranoia as intellectual heft.

Among many other things, Breuer declared that “doctors are out of their minds,” that we are all being led by unspecified “tyrants, these soulless evil, fear-driven animals,” and much of his stuporous soliloquy sounded like it was the preamble to a warning about satanic pedophilic pizza parlors.

“Wake up. Wake up,” he sneered. “This has nothing to do with safety. Zero.”

This wasn’t a bit, and it wasn’t funny. Unencumbered by clue, the Saturday Night Live alum is the latest big-time celeb incapable of accepting science or math, and that should scare anybody who knows the reach he has on social media and on various podcasts.

Jim Breuer skips town, short of a shingle | Editorial (nj.com)