49 Fun Facts About Jim Carrey

In which Canadian province was Jim Carrey born in 1962?

Ontario is where a 10-year-old Carrey wrote to The Carol Burnett Show, hoping to land a job on it.

What factory job did a teenage Jim Carrey take to help support his struggling family?

Janitor was the job, and by 1979 Carrey had left the factory to earn his living as a stand-up comic.

Carrey made his stand-up debut at 15 at which Toronto comedy club?

Yuk Yuk's launched a career in Canada's comedy clubs before Carrey moved to Los Angeles.

Which veteran comedian signed the young Carrey to open his tour dates in the early 1980s?

Rodney Dangerfield noticed Carrey in US comedy clubs and was so impressed that the two began touring together.

Which 1984 NBC sitcom gave Carrey his first starring TV role?

The Duck Factory was gone after just 13 episodes, yet it still won two Emmys, for its art direction and its animated title sequence.

Which presidential candidate did Jim Carrey play on Saturday Night Live in 2020?

Biden was only ever meant to be a six-week role for Carrey, so he stepped down from it that December.

Which Fox sketch show made Carrey a household name from 1990 to 1994?

In Living Color also gave Jennifer Lopez her TV break as one of the Fly Girls, its hip-hop dance troupe.

Which sketch-show character did Jim Carrey create, alongside Vera de Milo?

Fire Marshal Bill turns every safety lesson into a demonstration on himself, and ends up maimed or blown up by the very hazard he is warning about.

Which Charles Dickens character did Jim Carrey play in Robert Zemeckis's 2009 motion-capture film?

Scrooge was one of four roles for Carrey, who also played all three Christmas spirits in motion capture.

In Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, what animal is Ace hired to find?

A dolphin, the Miami Dolphins' mascot, is abducted before the Super Bowl, and quarterback Dan Marino is kidnapped too.

What is the name of Carrey's meek bank-teller character in The Mask?

Stanley Ipkiss robs a bank while wearing the mask, and a crime lord's goons get blamed for the heist.

In Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd and Harry drive from Providence, Rhode Island, to which ski town?

Aspen is where they head to return a briefcase of money, never realising it was a kidnapping ransom.

Who plays Harry Dunne opposite Carrey's Lloyd Christmas?

Jeff Daniels earned about $50,000 to Carrey's $7 million, after the studio balked at an actor with no out-and-out comedies.

Which Batman villain did Carrey play in Batman Forever (1995)?

The Riddler seeks revenge on his old employer, Wayne Enterprises, by unleashing a brain-draining weapon on Gotham.

For which 1996 film was Jim Carrey paid a startling $20 million?

The Cable Guy, a black comedy directed by Ben Stiller, disappointed at the box office despite Carrey's huge fee.

In Liar Liar, what is the profession of Carrey's character Fletcher Reede?

Lawyer Fletcher Reede's day of telling the truth lands him in jail, until his secretary bails him out.

Which director made Ace Ventura, Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty with Carrey?

Tom Shadyac shares Ace Ventura's writing credit with Carrey, who reshaped the pet detective after the studio first wanted Rick Moranis.

What is the town-sized soundstage called in Carrey's 1998 film about a man living inside a TV show?

Seahaven on screen was Seaside, a real planned Florida town that the director's wife had scouted.

Who directed Carrey's 1998 film about a man unknowingly starring in a reality show?

Peter Weir and Paramount waited a year for Carrey to be free rather than recast the lead, a rare move in Hollywood.

Carrey played which real-life comedian in Man on the Moon (1999)?

Andy Kaufman proved so immersive a role that Carrey's behind-the-scenes footage later became a Netflix documentary.

Which award did Carrey win two years running?

Golden Globe wins came back to back, first for a drama and then for a comedy, yet the Oscars never nominated him for either role.

Who directed Jim Carrey's 1999 film Man on the Moon?

Miloš Forman's shoot saw wrestler Jerry Lawler, playing himself, attack Carrey on set, his manager said.

Which actress plays Clementine opposite Carrey's Joel in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

Kate Winslet kept the part only because the director threatened to leave when the studio wanted a newly Oscar-winning actress.

What is the name of the memory-erasing company in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

Lacuna's own receptionist later mails its clients the tapes in which they explained why they wanted someone erased.

Which director made Carrey's 2004 memory-erasure film and later directed episodes of his series Kidding?

Michel Gondry wouldn't let Carrey improvise on the 2004 film, though his co-stars were allowed to go off-script.

Who narrates the 2000 film How the Grinch Stole Christmas, in which Carrey plays the Grinch?

Ron Howard directed, and the film won the Oscar for Best Makeup.

In Me, Myself & Irene, what is the aggressive second personality of Carrey's Charlie called?

Hank emerges when Charlie, a state trooper who has buried his anger for years, runs out of his medication.

Which villain did Carrey play in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events?

Count Olaf keeps returning, sometimes in disguise, because he wants the Baudelaire orphans' fortune.

Carrey's Yes Man (2008) was loosely based on a memoir by which British humorist?

Danny Wallace's memoir became a film in which Carrey pushed to do his character's bungee jump off a bridge himself.

Which video-game villain has Carrey played on film since 2020?

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 gave him the best opening weekend of his career, $72 million.

Which Dr. Seuss character did Carrey voice in a 2008 animated film?

Horton the Elephant reached the screen after Fox's animation chief won over Dr. Seuss's widow to secure the film rights.

Which real con artist and prison escapee did Carrey play in I Love You Phillip Morris?

Steven Jay Russell once walked out of a Texas prison posing as a doctor, his uniform dyed green with felt-tip markers.

Which director reunited with Jim Carrey for the 2007 thriller The Number 23?

Schumacher found a star already hooked on the number: Carrey had renamed his production company JC23 before he ever read the script.

After the Sandy Hook shooting, Jim Carrey withdrew support for which 2013 film?

Kick-Ass 2's co-creator Mark Millar replied that a film with that name had to do what it says on the tin.

Which art form did Jim Carrey reveal in 2017 that he had pursued privately for six years?

Painting became public with the short documentary I Needed Color, and Carrey went on to tweet political cartoons mocking Donald Trump.

What is the title of Carrey's 2020 novel?

Memoirs and Misinformation became a novel because Carrey and co-writer Dana Vachon didn't want to write a standard memoir.

Who played Grace, the girlfriend of Jim Carrey's character, in Bruce Almighty?

Jennifer Aniston played Grace in the 2003 comedy, whose pager number for God turned out to be real, so its owners across America got calls asking for him.

At which Iowa university did Jim Carrey give a 2014 commencement address?

Maharishi University of Management's graduates heard how Carrey's father lost his accounting job and the family fell on hard times.

Which Jim Carrey film cast Ed Harris as Christof?

The Truman Show gave Ed Harris the part of Christof only after Dennis Hopper, cast first, left soon after filming began.

Which of these was Carrey's first starring film role, a 1985 teen vampire comedy?

It was a modest hit despite poor reviews; he also shot a small part in Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married that year.

Who created, wrote and starred in the Fox sketch show that launched Carrey?

Keenen Ivory Wayans built the show as a platform for his comic family, casting siblings including Damon and Kim Wayans.

Which Geena Davis comedy cast Jim Carrey as the furry Wiploc?

Earth Girls Are Easy has the furry aliens shaved and waxed at a beauty salon, where they turn out to be handsome men.

Carrey's 1994 hit The Mask was adapted from a comic book published by which company?

Dark Horse Comics' founder, Mike Richardson, created the character and approached New Line Cinema about adapting it.

Which Dumb and Dumber co-star did Carrey marry in September 1996, for less than a year?

Lauren Holly's marriage to Carrey lasted under a year, and he later romanced his Me, Myself & Irene co-star Renée Zellweger.

Which DreamWorks animated role was Jim Carrey cast in before dropping out?

RJ in Over the Hedge went to Bruce Willis instead, voicing the raccoon who shows woodland animals how to raid the suburbs.

What was Jim Carrey's children's-TV persona in the series Kidding?

Mr. Pickles had Carrey's name in the first line of the first draft. Creator Dave Holstein then wrote on a series Carrey produced, and the actor got hold of the script there.

How was the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 script reportedly delivered to lure Carrey out of retirement?

Written in 24-carat gold ink, the script met Carrey's 2022 condition for a comeback, and the director says it's now worth about $100,000.

In Sonic the Hedgehog 3, which relative of his own character did Carrey also play?

Gerald, Ivo's grandfather, so absorbed Carrey that he helped design the character's prosthetics.

Carrey's 2018 exhibition of political drawings at the Maccarone Gallery in LA was titled what?

It featured 108 pen-and-ink drawings first shared on his Twitter feed.