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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jim Carrey On How Rich People Laugh | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-17. Transcript available.

You know, ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something.
There is no hotter film star than our first guest tonight.
I happen to know that his last film, Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, made over a
trillion dollars.
His new film, entitled The Mask, will probably make enough money to shut
Hollywood down forever.
It opens on Friday.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the always personable, the very talented,
Mr. Jim Carrey.
Yes, siri!
Jim, nice to see you.
The place goes wild!
Congratulations.
This must be very thrilling.
Your head just must be spinning because of the constant and overwhelming praise
in adulation
that you're generating for yourself because of the films.
It's an amazing thing.
I don't know exactly what's happened.
I've gotten very popular, but it's nice to know your roots, and it's nice to
know what happened.
Yeah, sure.
And I really think it's responsible.
You know, what's responsible for this whole thing is my subliminal motivation
tapes.
I had no money and no education.
Now I have script approval and the power to green light a movie project.
I can even throw a tantrum and lock myself in the trailer while the whole crew
waits.
Oh, you're being silly.
Is it difficult to keep a level head with all of this, though?
Well, I'm a little pissed about this.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
About the tabloids.
What do you have there?
I found this in a pothole outside.
But, you know, I just want to warn people.
Could I see that?
Well, in a second.
Because I just want to, you know, I want to tell people that if you go to a
newsstand and
you read about me in these rags, you know, 90% of what you're reading is
absolute garbage.
It's total fabrication.
Check it out.
Well, now, now, that's one of the worst offenders right there, that icky Newsweek.
Yeah, check this out.
You can't believe a thing you read in Newsweek.
Check this out, man.
And what about the London Times?
There's another one that stinks the eye.
Oh, yeah, they're after me.
Going through the garbage.
You know, check this.
Jim Carrey is reported to be making $7 million a picture.
I don't know where they got that number.
I wouldn't even rehearse for less than nine.
Then they get into my personal life.
Oh, I hate that.
Check this out.
Check this out.
Said to be romantically involved with Dumb and Dumber co-star, Lauren Holly.
Now, I don't know where they dream this stuff up.
I mean, so we sleep together four or five times a week.
Does that mean we're romantically involved?
Of course not.
No, no.
We're just good friends.
Sleeping buddies.
This is the worst one, though.
This is the worst one.
Of his competition, Carrey says, I hope they choke on their own vomit and leave
the good scripts
for me.
Ooh.
Die, die, die.
Hurry up and die.
Now, that was supposed to be off the record.
Yeah.
Garbage!
Garbage!
I'm sorry.
You have to endure that kind of thing when you're this big.
Exactly.
You started out your career, when I was first aware of you, back in Los Angeles,
you were
an impressionist.
Yes, I did.
From Canada.
You're Canadian, right?
I did a lot of impressions.
Yeah.
It actually started out with, it started out with just voices that I'd hear at
night.
Oh, I see.
Just voices would come to me.
And I think it was my conscience.
You know, so a lot of people have, you know, the little whispery voice that
comes into their
head and says, I think you might be taking yourself a little too seriously.
But my conscience is like Broderick Crawford in Born Yesterday.
What do you think I'm fine of?
What do you think I'm willing?
What do you think I'm willing?
No place you can run, no place you can hide, if you can arrange me.
Shut up!
Punx like you's a dime a dozen.
I blow my nose off, punx like you.
I like that.
Punx like you are a dime a dozen.
Punx like you's a dime a dozen.
I blow my nose off, punx like you.
Man, is that cool.
It's hard to get out of control.
Yeah, I like that.
But that's the kind of thing, once you stop, I'll be saying that now the rest
of the week.
Punx like you are a dime a dozen.
I blow my nose off, punx like you.
Punx like you are a dime a dozen.
I can't stop doing it.
It's very addictive.
It's very addictive.
No place you can, no place you can.
Punx like you are a chicken.
What are you going to do?
Put your nose on your chicken, punx like you are a chicken.
Shut up!
We're going to do a commercial.
We're going to do a commercial for punx like you.
Because for punx like you, we're doing a commercial.
Hey, welcome back to the program, ladies and gentlemen.
Jim Carrey, Lisa Loeb, Tia Carrera.
I want to do something with a band.
Yeah, go ahead.
What would you like to do?
Would that be great?
Yeah.
How about a movie?
Just a movie, you know?
Maybe get dinner afterwards?
Sure.
Why something not?
It's a date.
You know, you were talking there.
You were talking about the magazine articles and about money and stuff.
And I know for, maybe this hasn't been your experience, but for my experience,
and that
of many other men and women in stand-up comedy, they work for years and years
and years literally
just making pennies.
And then all of a sudden you hit it big and your paychecks increase enormously.
Yeah.
And is that any kind of pressure, any kind of problem for you?
Do you?
I'm completely all right with that.
It's just, it seems to have, I seem to have relaxed into it nicely.
Uh, I, uh, it's a bit of pressure.
I notice that it changes you in little ways.
Like, it's changed the way I laugh at parties.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I used to go, I used to go, ha, ha, ha, that's really funny.
You know, now I go, oh!
Oh, ha, ha!
Oh, beautiful!
Have you guys heard this one?
Oh!
You laugh that way because you know you're wealthy, is that?
I'm very wealthy in that, that's, that's how wealthy people laugh.
I wouldn't have, oh!
Punks like you are a dime a dozen!
I blow my nose up!
I blow my nose up punks like you!
You're getting frighteningly good at that.
I love it, I love it.
It's better if you turn around before it, though.
Yeah.
You gotta turn around.
I can hardly wait for the show to be over so I can go upstairs
and say this to everybody in the office.
Do you have a clip?
Do you have anything in the film you want to show?
Did you bring a clip?
Yeah, I actually brought a clip.
I didn't bring a clip of the film.
I brought something else.
Because, you know, at this point,
a lot of things are coming out that I did before the success of Ace,
and, you know, people are trying to capitalize on things I've done.
And we've done a little of that.
Rob Reiner was here the other night, and we showed videotape, a film of him
singing "Blowing in the Wind" with Gomer Pyle on the Gomer, on the Marine show,
the Gomer Pyle show, whatever that was.
Oh, really?
Yeah, and it was fun.
It was fun to look at.
But it was like it's something like that.
And it's just remember when you see this that I was young, I was hungry, and I
was, frankly, I was desperate.
So you're showing this now so we don't embarrass you by showing it?
Exactly.
Well, that's pretty good.
I just want to bring it out and let it, you know, let the people see and judge
for themselves.
How long ago was it?
About five years.
Okay, well, this will be fun.
Thank you very much for sharing this with us.
Hal, if you have the videotape in there of Jim Carrey five, six years ago, roll
it, please.
I was desperate.
All right.
I'm Mike Wallace.
I'm Morley Sanford.
I'm Ed Bradley.
And I'm Jim Carrey, these stories, and Andy Rooney, tonight on 60 Minutes.
Well, that's not so bad.
That's, you know, that's really not that bad.
I feel so filthy.
Oh, man.
Can you forgive me?
Yeah, I think we can.
So the film opens, is it this week?
I'm not quite sure.
Yeah.
Friday.
Friday.
And this is one of those, what I've seen of this movie, I've seen little bits
and pieces here and there.
And it looks like a really good combination of special effects, and you just
being a complete bonehead.
You know, it's just like a nice combination of that thing.
We definitely have the bonehead motion in there, yeah, yeah.
See, you must be very excited about this.
I'm very excited.
Well, I hope it's a big, big hit for you.
It was a pleasure to have you on the show, Jim.
Thank you.
Have a lovely summer and come back any time.
Thanks a lot, man.
Jim Carrey, ladies and gentlemen, right here.
We'll see you next time.