In a show full of brilliant actors and classic characters, he was still able to stand out despite the program being predominantly a sketch show for African American performers. As the token white guy, his insane characters, particularly ‘Fire Marshall Bill,’ stunned audiences.

He went with the respectable ‘James Carrey’ credit for his two Clint Eastwood films, Pink Cadillac (1989), and his role as rock star Johnny Squares in T he Dead Pool (1988), incongruously lip-synching to ‘Welcome to the Jungle.’ Earth Girls are Easy (1988) gave some indication of his true talent, but it’s universally agreed that his true coming-out party was In Living Color (1990). If the double whammy of the vampire comedy Once Bitten (which I watched on cable ALOT) and Francis Ford Coppola’s well-reviewed minor hit Peggy Sue Got Married had been a bigger deal, he might have become a star way sooner. 1985 represents a false start for Carrey. Revolving around a shy girl and Carrey as a terrible stand-up comic, it was basically a long short film with a cliché ending where Carrey fakes laryngitis to get his friend up on stage.

I hang my head low as I confess, I did indeed rent 1981’s Canadian “comedy” Rubberface from Blockbuster. A little wackiness here and there, but nothing you’d look twice at. You know what he’s capable of and often he’s either being a regular guy or has the Carrey-meter turned way down to maybe a two-and-a-half. It’s both weird and highly amusing to watch Carrey’s early work. That’s not to say he entered A-list superstardom fully-formed. Thanks to Sonic The Hedgehog (2020), I was able to take my daughter to see Jim Carrey go ‘Full Jim Carrey.’ When I was a kid, the only Jim Carrey I ever saw was ‘Full Jim Carrey,’ so the fact that he would later take steps to become a ‘serious actor’ never remotely crossed my mind.

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