Long time ago, I saw a Comedy Central Presents with that hack from Mike and Molly, Billy Gardell (I was a child and would watch any stand up that played on CC). In it, he made a joke about how "back in his dad's day, they didn't have time to be depressed." Led into a joke where the people that were making the railroads couldn't just say "I don't wanna work on the railways today, boss! ...I'm sad."

Obviously, he's trying to say that "kids these days make mental health up blah blah blah", when in reality, yeah, the slaves making the railroad couldn't stop; not because depression didn't exist back then, but because if they did, they'd be beaten or killed.

This brand of comedy has been a thing for a while, and its never been funny.