If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

The line is a darkly comic reminder that modern life often measures a person’s “importance” through financial obligations rather than genuine human concern. By suggesting that missed car payments will quickly attract attention, the joke satirizes creditors and institutions that are highly responsive when money is at stake, even if friends, neighbors, or society seem indifferent. It also plays on the insecurity of feeling unnoticed: the punchline flips self-pity into a critique of consumer debt and the impersonal systems surrounding it. In keeping with Wilson’s stand-up persona, the humor lands through blunt, everyday realism and a sharp reversal.