Jim Carrey#Relationships

Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, to Kathleen (née Oram), a homemaker, and Percy Carrey, a musician and accountant.{{cite news |url=https://filmylabs.blogspot.com/2019/02/badla-movie-2019-badla-trailer-badla.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324054756/https://filmylabs.blogspot.com/2019/02/badla-movie-2019-badla-trailer-badla.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 24, 2019 |title=USA Weekend Magazine |work=USA Weekend |date=May 25, 2003 |access-date=November 21, 2009}} He was raised Catholic and has three older siblings, John, Patricia, and Rita.{{cite news |last=Puig |first=Claudia |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-05-20-carrey_x.htm |title=Spiritual Carrey still mighty funny |work=USA Today |date=May 27, 2003 |access-date=November 21, 2009 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001225/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/2003-05-20-carrey_x.htm |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.movieline.com/1994/07/carreyd-away.php?page=3 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908072700/http://www.movieline.com/1994/07/carreyd-away.php?page=3 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 8, 2012 |title=Jim Carrey: Carrey'd Away |publisher=Movieline |date=January 7, 1994 |access-date=October 8, 2010}} His mother was of Irish and Scottish descent, and his father was of French-Canadian ancestry; the family's original surname was Carré.{{cite web |url=http://www.jimcarreyonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75657&sid=c288b4a04f1da0728280242f21ef58de |title=Jim Carrey Online • View topic – Scottish Interview & Clip |publisher=Jimcarreyonline.com |access-date=February 7, 2011}}{{YouTube|cpEfiRUu64Q|Stated}}{{dead link|date=August 2014}} on Inside the Actors Studio''.{{cite book |author=Knelman, Martin. |title=Jim Carrey: The Joker Is Wild |year=2000 |publisher=U.S.: Firefly Books Ltd. |page=[https://archive.org/details/jimcarreyjokeris00mart/page/8 8] |isbn=1-55209-535-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/jimcarreyjokeris00mart/page/8 }}

At age eight, he began making faces before a mirror and discovered a talent for doing impressions.{{Cite web|title=Jim Carrey {{!}} Biography, Movies, TV Shows, Books, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jim-Carrey|access-date=December 21, 2020|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}} At age ten, Carrey wrote a letter to Carol Burnett of the Carol Burnett Show pointing out that he was already a master of impressions and should be considered for a role on the show; he was overjoyed when he received a form letter reply.{{cite web |url=http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/jim-carrey-we-love-breathing-what-youre-burning-baby |publisher=Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee |first=Jerry |last=Seinfeld |year=2016 |title=Jim Carry: We Love Breathing What You're Burning Baby |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512035503/http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/jim-carrey-we-love-breathing-what-youre-burning-baby |archive-date=May 12, 2016}} A fan of Monty Python, whose TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus aired in the 1970s, in 2014 Carrey appeared on Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) and recalled the effect on him of Ernest Scribbler (played by Michael Palin) laughing himself to death in "The Funniest Joke in the World" sketch.{{cite news |title=Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/c7jvrt/monty-pythons-best-bits-mostly--series-1-episode-1/ |access-date=September 5, 2019 |work=Radio Times |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001205/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/c7jvrt/monty-pythons-best-bits-mostly--series-1-episode-1/ |url-status=live }} Radio Times states, "You'll see why immediately: Palin's performance is uncannily Carreyesque."

Carrey spent his early years in the borough of Scarborough, Ontario, part of Metropolitan Toronto, where he attended Blessed Trinity Catholic Elementary School in North York. His family later moved to Burlington, Ontario, where they would spend eight years; Jim attended Aldershot High School while there.{{cite news |title=Dropout Boogie: 14 Celebs Who Never Got Their Degree |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/dropout-boogie-14-celebs-who-never-got-their-degree-14864/jim-carrey-6-208069/ |access-date=July 8, 2020 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001212/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/dropout-boogie-14-celebs-who-never-got-their-degree-14864/jim-carrey-6-208069/ |url-status=live }} Some time later, his family became homeless and lived together in a Volkswagen van while teenage Jim and his brother spent months living in a tent in Charles Daley Park on the Lake Ontario shore in Lincoln, Ontario.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/jim-carreys-reluctant-return-hollywood-1134623|title=Jim Carrey's (Reluctant) Return to Hollywood: At Home With an Actor, Artist and Trump-Era Agitator|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=August 15, 2018|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001022/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/jim-carreys-reluctant-return-hollywood-1134623|url-status=live}}{{cite news |first=Ben |last=Kaplan |title=Dumb and Dumber Weak (sic): Jim Carrey's rocky road from Scarborough to Hollywood – 'He was born to do it' |url=https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/movies/dumb-and-dumber-weak-sic-jim-carreys-rocky-road-from-scarborough-to-hollywood-he-was-born-to-do-it |work=National Post |access-date=December 15, 2020 |date=November 13, 2014 }} The family struggled financially, however, their situation started improving once his father found employment in the accounting department at the Titan Wheels tire factory in Scarborough.

Furthermore, in return for living in the house across the street from the factory, the family—primarily teenage sons Jim and John—would work as janitors and security guards at the tire factory, doing eight-hour shifts from 6 pm into the next morning. Moving back to Scarborough, teenage Jim started attending Agincourt Collegiate Institute before dropping out of school on his sixteenth birthday. He began to perform comedy in downtown Toronto while continuing to work at the factory. In a 2007 Hamilton Spectator interview, Carrey said, "If my career in show business hadn't panned out I would probably be working today in Hamilton, Ontario, at the Dofasco steel mill." As a young man, he could see the steel mills across the Burlington Bay and often thought that was "where the great jobs were."{{Cite news |last=Holt |first=Jim |title=Its all in the numbers: Jim Carrey could be at Dofasco if Hollywood hadn't worked out |newspaper=The Hamilton Spectator |pages=Go14 |date=February 26, 2007 }}

Carrey's first stand-up comedy experience took place in 1977 at the age of 15 with his father trying to help him put together a stage act, driving him to Downtown Toronto to debut at the recently-opened Yuk Yuk's comedy club operating one-night-a-week out of community center The 519's basement on Church Street.{{cite web |title=Jim Carrey Biography |url=http://94.236.123.155:8082/biographies/jim-carrey.html |publisher=Bio |access-date=April 26, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725203210/http://94.236.123.155:8082/biographies/jim-carrey.html |archive-date=July 25, 2013 }} For the performance, Carrey had his attire—a polyester leisure suit—chosen by his mother who reasoned "that's how they dress on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast".{{cite web |first1=Dave |last1=Quinn |first2=Raha |last2=Lewis |title=Jim Carrey on the Failures of His Early Career: 'Darkness Is Where Diamonds Form' |url=https://people.com/tv/jim-carrey-im-dying-up-here-standup-darkness/ |work=People |access-date=December 16, 2020 |date=June 1, 2017 }} Pubescent Carrey's conventional impersonations bombed, proving ill-suited for a club with a raunchy comedic sensibility and giving him doubts about his potential as a professional entertainer. Decades later, recalling Carrey's stand-up debut, Yuk Yuk's owner Mark Breslin described it as "bad Rich Little". His family's financial struggles made it difficult for them to support Carrey's show business ambitions.

Eventually, the family's financial situation improved and they moved into a new home in Jackson's Point.{{cite journal|url=http://www.tgmag.ca/tgarch/80cptext/80cp2.htm|title=Jim Carrey and Katie Ford?|last=Gross|first=Johnathon|journal=TG Magazine|date=1980|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212173543/http://www.tgmag.ca/tgarch/80cptext/80cp2.htm|archive-date=December 12, 2009}} With more domestic stability, Carrey returned to the stage in 1979 with a more polished act that led to his first paid gig: a 20-minute spot at the Hay Loft club on Highway 48 in Scarborough for a reported Can$20 compensation on a bill with the Mother of Pearl performer from The Pig and Whistle.{{cite news |author=Don Harron |url=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1518485530 |title=Funny-man Jim Carrey makes 'em laugh |agency=Morningside |publisher=CBC Radio One |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330054751/https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1962-funny-man-jim-carrey-born-in-newmarket-ont |archive-date=March 30, 2018 |url-status=live |date=March 17, 1982 |access-date=January 28, 2021}} He soon faced his fears and went back downtown to the site of his debacle from two years earlier—Yuk Yuk's that had in the meantime moved into a permanent location on Bay Street in the fashionable Yorkville district. In a short period of time, the seventeen-year-old went from open-mic nights at the club to regular paid shows, building his reputation in the process.

Parallel to his increasing local Toronto-area popularity as an impressionist stand-up comic, Carrey tried to break into sketch comedy, auditioning to be a cast member for the 1980–81 season of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Carrey ended up not being selected by the show's new executive producer Jean Doumanian who picked thirty-one-year-old Charles Rocket instead.{{cite web |first=Jennifer M. |last=Wood |title=31 Famous People Rejected by Saturday Night Live |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/55008/32-famous-people-rejected-saturday-night-live |work=MentalFloss.com |access-date=January 9, 2021 |date=December 4, 2015 }} Decades later, after establishing himself as a Hollywood film star, Carrey would host the show in May 1996, January 2011, and October 2014.{{cite news |last=McGlynn |first=Katla |title=Jim Carrey Spoofs 'Black Swan' on 'SNL' |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/09/jim-carrey-black-swan_n_806425.html |work=HuffPost |access-date=April 25, 2012 |date=January 9, 2011 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001024/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-carrey-black-swan_n_806425 |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |first=Elizabeth |last=Barber |title=Jim Carrey Is Booked to Host Saturday Night Live on Oct. 25 |url=https://time.com/3501079/jim-carrey-booked-host-october-25-snl-saturday-night-live/ |magazine=Time |access-date=December 10, 2014 |date=October 13, 2014 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001047/https://time.com/3501079/jim-carrey-booked-host-october-25-snl-saturday-night-live/ |url-status=live }} After not getting Saturday Night Live, Carrey took a voice acting job performing Clutch Cargo-inspired bits on The All-Night Show, an overnight program airing locally on the CFMT-TV channel branded as Multilingual Television (MTV).{{cite news|url=http://www.eyeweekly.com/city/scrollingeye/article/15643 |title=All-Night Show's new dawn |first=Marc |last=Weisblott |date=January 21, 2008 |newspaper=Eye Weekly |access-date=February 4, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522152801/http://www.eyeweekly.com/city/scrollingeye/article/15643 |archive-date=May 22, 2011 }}

Continuing to perform his stand-up act of contortionist impressions in the city of Toronto and surrounding towns, in February 1981, nineteen-year-old Carrey was booked as the opening act for the rock band Goddo at The Roxy Theatre in Barrie for two shows on consecutive nights; the rock crowd booed him offstage and he refused to return for the second night.{{cite web |title=Canadian Bands - Goddo |url=http://www.canadianbands.com/Goddo.html |access-date=September 6, 2020 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001043/http://www.canadianbands.com/Goddo.html |url-status=live }} Two weeks later, however, a review of one of Carrey's spots at Yuk Yuk's—alongside a sizable photo of him doing a stage impression of Sammy Davis Jr.—appeared in the Toronto Star on the front page of its entertainment section with the writer Bruce Blackadar raving about "a genuine star coming to life".{{cite news |first=Bruce |last=Blackadar |title=Up, up goes a new comic star |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=February 27, 1981 |page=C1}}{{cite web |first=Deborah |last=Dundas |title=Jim Carrey's new memoir explores the 'truth underneath the fiction' of his life: 'How are you going to explain the flying saucers?' |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2020/07/03/jim-carrey-on-his-new-memoir-novel-it-is-my-truth-underneath-the-fiction.html |work=Toronto Star |access-date=December 13, 2020 |date=July 3, 2020 }} Save for a brief mention in the Barrie Examiner, it was the first time Carrey received significant mainstream corporate media coverage and the glowing praise in one of Canada's highest-circulation dailies created demand for his impressionist stand-up act throughout the country.

In April 1981, he appeared in an episode of the televised stand-up show An Evening at the Improv.{{cite web |title=An Evening at the Improv |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401003/fullcredits |publisher=IMDb |access-date=April 25, 2012 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001031/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401003/fullcredits |url-status=live }} That summer, he landed one of the main roles in Introducing... Janet, a made-for-TV movie that premiered in September 1981 on the CBC drawing more than a million viewers for its first airing in Canada.{{cite web |author=CBC archives |title=The early role that introduced CBC viewers to Jim Carrey |url=https://www.cbc.ca/archives/the-early-role-that-introduced-cbc-viewers-to-jim-carrey-1.4876997 |work=CBC.ca |access-date=December 13, 2020 |date=October 28, 2018 }} Playing a struggling impressionist comic Tony Maroni, it was Carrey's first acting role. The CBC promotion the movie had received as well its subsequent high nationwide viewership further solidified the youngster's comedic status in the country; by the time the movie finished its CBC run of repeats several years later, its title for the home video release on VHS was changed to Rubberface in order to take advantage of the comic's by then established prominence for doing elaborate contortionist impressions. Making more comedy club appearances in the United States, Carrey was noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield who signed Carrey to open his tour performances. By December 1981, a well-known comic in Canada, Toronto Star reported about Carrey waiting for a United States work permit having received interest from Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, largely off his reputation from Canada.{{cite web |first=Jim |last=Russel |title=Jackson's Point comedian a product of family pride |url=https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/jacksons-point-comedian-a-product-of-family-pride-dont-news-photo/502258361 |work=Toronto Star via Getty Images|access-date=December 13, 2020 |date=December 8, 1981 }}{{cite web |first=Jim |last=Russel |title=Flying high: Comic Jim Carrey is jumping for joy these days |url=https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-TSPA_0036564F&R=DC-TSPA_0036564F&searchPageType=vrl |work=Toronto Star via Toronto Public Library|access-date=December 13, 2020 |date=December 8, 1981 }}

In the early part of 1982, Carrey reportedly performed for The Tonight Show bookers Jim McCawley and Bud Robinson as part of the program's audition process for stand-up comic spots.{{cite web |first1=Daryl |last1=Jung |first2=Shari |last2=Hollett |title=Carrey prepares for fame |url=https://nowtoronto.com/culture/jim-carrey-on-the-brink-of-stardom |work=Now |access-date=March 22, 2022 |date=April 1, 1982 }} However, rather than being booked on the show, Carrey got advised to further hone his act, so he went back home to the Toronto area where he had already built a significant following. Touring venues throughout North America as the opening act for Rodney Dangerfield, Carrey made a stop at home in Toronto on June 19, 1982, performing two sold-out shows at Massey Hall.

In early 1983, Carrey decided to move to Hollywood where he began regularly performing at The Comedy Store. Getting on The Tonight Show became his immediate career goal, and, by spring 1983, he appeared to have achieved it after getting booked for a stand-up set on the highly-rated late night show.{{cite web |first=Bruce |last=Miller |title=When Carson was king: Comedy careers were made, Jim Carrey says |url=https://siouxcityjournal.com/entertainment/television/when-carson-was-king-comedy-careers-were-made-jim-carrey-says/article_33e9c7fe-62b2-5659-add3-687641f80e06.html |work=Sioux City Journal |access-date=December 13, 2020 |date=June 2, 2017 }} However, a lukewarm club set at The Improv got him unbooked. Though struggling to replicate his success in Los Angeles, Carrey continued being a big hit in his hometown Toronto where he returned during late April 1983 to perform at the short-lived B.B. Magoon's theatrical venue on Bloor Street on three consecutive nights. While in town, CTV's flagship newsmagazine program W5 did a feature on Carrey that aired nationally in Canada. Back in L.A., within months, he landed the main role on The Duck Factory, a sitcom being developed for NBC, and, in late November 1983, still got to debut his impressionist act on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson via a promotional appearance for the sitcom about to start airing nationally in the United States on the same network. In the meantime, he was cast for a supporting role in the Warner Bros. comedy production Finders Keepers, shot in the Canadian province of Alberta during late summer 1983. For his Tonight Show appearance that aired on American Thanksgiving, 21-year-old Carrey went through his most popular impressions—Elvis Presley, Leonid Brezhnev, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Michael Landon, James Dean, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Charles Nelson Reilly, characters from My Three Sons, and Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy—in rapid succession.{{cite news |last=Leung |first=Rebecca |title=Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful' |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carrey-life-is-too-beautiful/ |work=CBS News |access-date=April 26, 2012}} After completing his set, though getting the OK gesture from Carson, the impressionist comic was notably not waved over by the host to join him on the couch—a usual indication that while sufficiently pleased, the powerful host was probably not ecstatic about the performance.{{cite news |last=Rhodes |first=Joe |title=Carson's Code |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/arts/television/carsons-code.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529200429/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/arts/television/carsons-code.html |archive-date=May 29, 2015 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The New York Times |date=January 30, 2005 |access-date=January 7, 2021}} The end of 1983 saw Carrey go back home to Toronto once more for a publicized New Years' Eve performance at the Royal York Hotel's Imperial Room.

Originally scheduled to start airing in January 1984, The Duck Factory sitcom debuted in April, airing Thursdays at 9:30pm between Cheers and Hill Street Blues.{{cite web |first= John J. |last=O'Connor |title=NBC Adds MTM's 'Duck Factory' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/12/arts/nbc-adds-mtm-s-duck-factory.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 30, 2020 |date=April 12, 1984 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086702/ |title=The Duck Factory |publisher=IMDb }} The same month, Carrey took a job hosting the 1984 U-Know Awards ceremony held in Toronto at the Royal York Hotel's Ballroom.{{cite news |last=Boon |first=Mike |title=U-Knows Highlights from 1984 |url=https://www.torontomike.com/2011/03/u-knows_highlights_from_1984/ |publisher=TorontoMike.com |date=March 27, 2011 |access-date=December 17, 2020}} By the time he made his debut appearance on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman in late July 1984, the network had already canceled The Duck Factory; Carrey went back to touring with his impressionist act, including often opening for Rodney Dangerfield.

After being noticed doing stand-up by producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and contacted to audition for a teen horror sex comedy being developed by The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Carrey landed a starring role in Once Bitten shot in early 1985.{{cite journal |title= Once Bitten interview: Jim Carrey |journal=West Seattle Herald |date=November 1985 }} Carrey would continue getting film roles; throughout late summer and early fall 1985, he shot a supporting part in Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married which went into a long post-production process. In parallel, he decided to try out for Saturday Night Live again, this time ahead of the show's 1985–86 season being prepared by returning executive producer Lorne Michaels who was looking to hire an all-new cast. Five years removed from his previous SNL audition, twenty-three-year-old Carrey was rejected again, reportedly never even getting the chance to audition his material—'post-nuclear Elvis' hybrid impression and impersonation of Henry Fonda from On Golden Pond—in front of executive producer Michaels due to the show's producers and senior writers Al Franken, Tom Davis, and Jim Downey deciding that Michaels would not like it.{{cite news |last=Tabrys |first=Jason |title=The Story Behind Jim Carrey's Many Failed 'SNL' Auditions |url=https://uproxx.com/tv/the-story-behind-jim-carreys-many-failed-saturday-night-live-auditions/ |publisher=Uproxx.com |date=October 24, 2014 |access-date=January 9, 2020}} Unlike his previous SNL rejection, Carrey now had a bit of a film career to fall back on in addition to his impressionist stand-up act; Once Bitten was released in mid November 1985 and turned out to be a modest box-office hit despite drawing poor reviews.

Back on the comedy club circuit with impressions, in fall 1986, Carrey auditioned for SNL{{'}}s upcoming season, his third attempt at getting on the ensemble sketch comedy show. Finally managing to perform for the show's executive producer Lorne Michaels at a Burbank studio, with returning cast members Dennis Miller, Jon Lovitz, and Nora Dunn also watching the audition, Carrey was rejected again. Among the group of hopefuls auditioning alongside Carrey on this occasion were Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman, both of whom were hired. Sensing that doing only impressions was turning into a career dead-end, Carrey set out to develop a new live comedy act.{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |authorlink=Roger Ebert|title=Jim Carrey Laughs in Face of Success |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/jim-carrey-laughs-in-face-of-success |newspaper=The Chicago Sun-Times|via=RogerEbert.com |date=July 24, 1994 |access-date=January 10, 2021}} Much to the dismay of comedy club owners booking him, he began abandoning trademark celebrity impressions, opting instead to try adding observational and character humor to his comedic repertoire, a process that often involved forcing himself to improvise and scramble in front of dissatisfied live audiences that came to see him do impressions. From 1990 to 1994, Carrey was a regular cast member of the ensemble comedy television series In Living Color.{{cite web |last1=Seemayer|first1=Zach |title=Why Jim Carrey Says an 'In Living Color' Revival 'Needs to Happen' (Exclusive) {{!}} Entertainment Tonight |url=https://www.etonline.com/why-jim-carrey-says-an-in-living-color-revival-needs-to-happen-exclusive-109148 |website=www.etonline.com |date=September 5, 2018 |access-date=August 30, 2022}} The popularity of the series helped him to land his first few major film roles.

Carrey played the lead role in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective which was released in February 1994 and went on to gross $72 million in the United States and Canada.{{cite web | url= http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=aceventura.htm | title=Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | website=Box Office Mojo | access-date=March 26, 2018 }} Following its success and before the release of his next film, The Mask, which was anticipated to be another hit, Morgan Creek Productions paid him $5 million to reprise his role as Ace Ventura and New Line Cinema offered him $7 million to make a sequel to The Mask and paid him $7 million to appear in Dumb and Dumber, a nearly tenfold increase on his salary for Ace Ventura.{{cite magazine|magazine=Daily Variety|date=January 12, 1995|page=12|edition=61st anniversary|title=Jim Carrey}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|date=May 15, 1994|page=6|title=Cagey over budget}} The Mask, released in July 1994, grossed $351 million worldwide,{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mask.htm|title=The Mask (1994)|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=March 27, 2013|archive-date=March 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328191857/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mask.htm|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=The Mask |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |location=Chicago, Illinois |via=rogerebert.com |date=July 29, 1994 |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19940729/REVIEWS/407290304/1023 |access-date=August 1, 2006 |archive-date=September 9, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909133144/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19940729%2FREVIEWS%2F407290304%2F1023 |url-status=dead }} and Dumb and Dumber, released in December 1994, was another commercial success, grossing over $270 million worldwide.{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE6D6153BF930A35752C0A963958260 |newspaper=The New York Times |title='Dumb and Dumber' Tops Holiday Film Grosses |first=Bernard |last=Weinraub |date=January 3, 1995 |access-date=May 1, 2010 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001038/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/03/movies/dumb-and-dumber-tops-holiday-film-grosses.html |url-status=live }} Carrey received his first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor for his work in The Mask and was voted second on Quigley's Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll, behind Tom Hanks.{{cite web | url = https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/04/13/Tom-Hanks-has-won-two-consecutive-Academy-Awards-but-money-talks/7443797745600/ | author = Vernon Scott | title = Tom Hanks has won two consecutive Academy Awards, but money talks | date = April 13, 1995 | publisher = UPI | access-date = August 4, 2020 | archive-date = November 17, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001041/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/04/13/Tom-Hanks-has-won-two-consecutive-Academy-Awards-but-money-talks/7443797745600/ | url-status = live }}

Carrey portrayed the Batman villain the Riddler in the Joel Schumacher-directed superhero film Batman Forever (1995). The film received mixed reviews, but was a box office success. He reprised his role as Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls which was also released in 1995. Like the original film, it was well received by the public, but poorly received by critics. It was a huge box-office success, earning $212 million worldwide in addition to breaking records, with a $40 million opening weekend.{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=aceventura2.htm |title=Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) |website=Box Office Mojo |date=March 2, 1996 |access-date=May 5, 2012 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001124/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl121669121/weekend/ |url-status=live }} Carrey became the first comic actor to be paid an upfront salary of $20 million for his next film, The Cable Guy (1996).{{cite magazine|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=Spring 2000|issue=540|page=111|title=Big Deals|last=Fierman|first=Daniel}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title='The Cable Guy' Turns 25: How Jim Carrey's $20 Million Salary Shook Up Hollywood|date=June 14, 2021|last=Lang|first=Brent|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/cable-guy-jim-carrey-salary-1234995346/}} Directed by Ben Stiller, the film was a satirical black comedy, in which Carrey played a lonely, menacing cable TV installer who infiltrates the life of one of his customers (played by Matthew Broderick). The role was a departure from the "hapless, hyper, overconfident" characters he had been known for. However, it did not fare well with most critics, many reacting to Carrey's change of tone from previous films.{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cable_guy |title=The Cable Guy – Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures |website=Rotten Tomatoes |date=April 2003 |access-date=March 12, 2012 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001253/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cable_guy |url-status=live }} Carrey also starred in the music video of the film's closing song, "Leave Me Alone" by Jerry Cantrell.{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQExlqz6slk |title=Jerry Cantrell – Leave Me Alone |date=March 5, 2016 |via=YouTube |access-date=July 25, 2018 |archive-date=August 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828173157/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQExlqz6slk&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live }} Despite the reviews, The Cable Guy grossed $102 million worldwide.{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=cableguy.htm |title=The Cable Guy (1996) |publisher=Boxofficemojo.com |date=August 30, 1996 |access-date=March 12, 2012 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001114/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3276375553/ |url-status=live }}

He soon bounced back with the critically acclaimed comedy Liar Liar (1997), playing Fletcher Reede, an unethical lawyer rendered unable to lie by his young son's birthday wish. Carrey was praised for his performance, earning a second Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor. Janet Maslin of The New York Times said: "Well into his tumultuous career, Mr. Carrey finally turns up in a straightforward comic vehicle, and the results are much wilder and funnier than this mundane material should have allowed."{{cite news |first=Janet |last=Maslin |author-link=Janet Maslin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/21/movies/the-truth-shall-set-you-free-not.html |title=The Truth Shall Set You Free. Not! |date=March 21, 1997 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=April 26, 2012 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001125/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/21/movies/the-truth-shall-set-you-free-not.html |url-status=live }}

The following year he decided to take a pay cut to play the seriocomic role of Truman Burbank in the satirical comedy-drama film The Truman Show (1998).{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/truman_show/ |title=The Truman Show Movie Reviews, Pictures |website=Rotten Tomatoes |date=June 5, 1998 |access-date=November 21, 2009 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001137/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/truman_show |url-status=live }} The film was highly praised and brought Carrey further international acclaim, leading many to believe he would be nominated for an Academy Award.{{cite magazine |first=Benjamin|last=Svetkey |title=The Truman Pro |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=June 5, 1998 |url=https://ew.com/article/1998/06/05/jim-carreys-serious-turn-truman-show/ |access-date=March 16, 2008 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001121/https://ew.com/article/1998/06/05/jim-carreys-serious-turn-truman-show/ |url-status=live }} He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama but did not receive an Academy Award nomination. The Truman Show was a commercial success, grossing $264 million worldwide against a budget of $60 million.{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=trumanshow.htm |title=The Truman Show |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=March 16, 2008 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001129/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3229058561/weekend/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1998&p=.htm |title=1998 Yearly Box Office Results |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=March 16, 2008 |archive-date=May 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090522071704/http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1998&p=.htm |url-status=live }} A Film4 critic stated that the film "allows Carrey to edge away from broad comedy", adding that it was "a hilarious and breathtakingly conceived satire".{{cite web |title=Film4 Review |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/truman_show/reviews/ |work=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Film4 |access-date=April 26, 2012 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001120/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/truman_show/reviews |url-status=live }}

That same year, Carrey appeared as a fictionalized version of himself on the final episode of Garry Shandling's The Larry Sanders Show, in which he deliberately ripped into Shandling's character. In 1999, Carrey had the lead role in Man on the Moon. He portrayed comedian Andy Kaufman to critical acclaim and received his second Golden Globe in a row but again failed to be nominated for an Academy Award.{{cite news|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|last=Natale|first=Richard|date=February 16, 2000|title=Academy Voters Deliver the Unexpected|page=}} In addition, he received his first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actor.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1093579-man_on_the_moon/|website=Rotten Tomatoes|title=Man on the Moon|date=December 22, 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001138/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1093579-man_on_the_moon |archive-date=November 17, 2020|accessdate=March 31, 2007}}

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In 2000, Carrey reteamed with the Farrelly brothers, who had previously directed him in Dumb and Dumber, for the black comedy film Me, Myself & Irene, a film that received mixed reviews{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/me_myself_and_irene/ |title=Me, Myself & Irene |work=Rotten Tomatoes |date=June 23, 2000 |access-date=March 23, 2010 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001127/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/me_myself_and_irene |url-status=live }} but enjoyed box office success. Carrey played the role of state trooper Charlie Baileygates, who has multiple personalities and romances a woman portrayed by Renée Zellweger. That same year, Carrey starred in the second highest-grossing Christmas film of all time, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, playing the title character, for which he received both praise and criticism from critics alongside a Golden Globe nomination.{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/how_the_grinch_stole_christmas/ |title=How the Grinch Stole Christmas |website=Rotten Tomatoes |date=November 17, 2000 |access-date=March 20, 2012 |archive-date=May 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525082620/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/how_the_grinch_stole_christmas/ |url-status=live }}

For his next feature film, Carrey starred opposite Jennifer Aniston and Morgan Freeman in Tom Shadyac's international hit comedy Bruce Almighty (2003). Carrey played a television newsman who unexpectedly receives God's omnipotent abilities when the deity decides to take a vacation. The film received mixed reviews upon release{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bruce_almighty/ |title=Bruce Almighty |website=Rotten Tomatoes |date=May 23, 2003 |access-date=April 28, 2020 |archive-date=August 17, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817024249/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bruce_almighty/ |url-status=live }} but still became a financial success, earning over $484 million worldwide, and going on to become the seventeenth highest-grossing live action comedy of all time.{{cite web |title=Box Office Mojo – Bruce Almighty |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=brucealmighty.htm |work=Box Office Mojo |access-date=April 28, 2020 |archive-date=April 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408032042/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=brucealmighty.htm |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Hollywood.com's Highest Grossing Comedy Films of All Time List |url=http://www.hollywood.com/news/Hollywoodcoms_Highest_Grossing_Comedy_Films_of_All_Time_List/3467963 |work=Hollywood.com |access-date=April 26, 2012 |archive-date=February 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130205114252/http://www.hollywood.com/news/Hollywoodcoms_Highest_Grossing_Comedy_Films_of_All_Time_List/3467963 |url-status=live }}

In 2004, Carrey starred in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The film received critical acclaim upon release. Critics highly praised Carrey's portrayal of Joel Barish, in addition to the performance of his co-star Kate Winslet, who was nominated for an Oscar. According to CNN's reviewer Paul Clinton, Carrey's performance was the actor's "best, most mature and sharply focused performance ever."{{cite web |first=Paul|last=Clinton|url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/18/review.sunshine/index.html |website=CNN|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109220105/http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/18/review.sunshine/index.html |date=March 19, 2004|archive-date=November 9, 2012|url-status=live|title= Review: Let the 'Eternal Sunshine' in|quote=...the best, most mature and sharply focused performance ever from Jim Carrey.}} Carrey received another Golden Globe nomination and his first BAFTA Award nomination for Best Actor. Carrey's next appearance was in the 2004 black comedy fantasy film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, which was based on the children's novels of the same name. The film was positively received; Desson Thomson from The Washington Post said of Carrey's approach to the character of Count Olaf,

{{blockquote|Olaf is a humorless villain in the book. He's not amusing like Carrey at all. To which I would counter: If you can't let Carrey be Carrey, put someone boring and less expensive in the role. In his various disguises he's rubbery, inventive and improvisationally inspired. I particularly liked his passing imitation of a dinosaur.{{cite news |author-link=Desson Thomson |first=Desson |last=Thomson |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4634-2004Dec16.html |title=A Fortunate Series of Scenes |date=April 17, 2004 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=April 10, 2009 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001151/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4634-2004Dec16.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lemony_snicket/ |title=Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events |date=December 17, 2004 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=April 8, 2009 |archive-date=February 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228095729/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lemony_snicket/ |url-status=live }}}}

That same year, Carrey was inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame.{{cite web |title=Jim Carrey, 2004 inductee |url=http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/inductee/jim-carrey |publisher=Canada's Walk of Fame |access-date=September 10, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106114251/http://canadaswalkoffame.com/inductee/jim-carrey |archive-date=November 6, 2011}} In 2005, Carrey starred in the remake of Fun with Dick and Jane with Téa Leoni, which grossed $200 million with a profit of $100 million.{{cite web |last1=Nocera |first1=Joe |title=A Revenge Fantasy, Except It's Reality |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/28/business/a-revenge-fantasy-except-its-reality.html |website=The New York Times |quote=the movie is an Enron revenge fantasy. Which helps explain, I think, why this decidedly mediocre film has made more than $100 million at the box office so far. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528220022/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/28/business/a-revenge-fantasy-except-its-reality.html |archive-date=May 28, 2020 |date=January 28, 2006 |url-status=live}}

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Carrey reunited with Joel Schumacher, director of Batman Forever, for The Number 23 (2007), a psychological thriller co-starring Virginia Madsen and Danny Huston. In the film, Carrey plays a man who becomes obsessed with the number 23, after finding a book about a man with the same obsession. The film was panned by critics. The following year Carrey provided his voice for Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008). Carrey voiced Horton the Elephant for the CGI-animated feature, which was a box office success, grossing over $290 million worldwide.{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/horton-hears-a-who2008/ |title=Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who |access-date=April 14, 2008 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |date=March 14, 2008 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001127/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/horton-hears-a-who2008 |url-status=live }} Carrey returned to live-action comedy, starring opposite Zooey Deschanel and Bradley Cooper in Yes Man (also 2008). Carrey played a man who signs up for a self-help program that teaches him to say yes to everything. Despite reviews being mixed, Rene Rodriquez of The Miami Herald stated, "Yes Man is fine as far as Jim Carrey comedies go, but it's even better as a love story that just happens to make you laugh."{{cite web |first=Rene|last=Rodriguez|url=http://www.miami.com/yes-man-pg-13-article/ |title=Yes Man Review |work=The Miami Herald |date=December 19, 2008 |access-date=December 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503130332/http://www.miami.com/yes-man-pg-13-article |archive-date=May 3, 2009 }} The film earned $225 million at the box office worldwide.{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=yesman.htm |title=Yes Man (2008) |work=Box Office Mojo |access-date=April 28, 2015 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001247/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2860156417/ |url-status=live }}

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Since 2009, Carrey's work has included a leading role in Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's I Love You Phillip Morris, premiering in January 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival before receiving a wide release in February 2010. Carrey portrayed Steven Jay Russell, a con artist, imposter, and multiple prison escapee who falls in love with his fellow inmate, Phillip Morris (played by Ewan McGregor). The film received largely positive reviews, with Damon Wise of The Times giving the film four stars out of five, stating, "I Love You Phillip Morris is an extraordinary film that serves as a reminder of just how good Carrey can be when he's not tied into a generic Hollywood crowd-pleaser. His comic timing remains as exquisite as ever."{{cite news |first=Damon |last=Wise |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article5548068.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615064214/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article5548068.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 15, 2011 |title=I Love You Phillip Morris at the Sundance Film Festival, Utah |newspaper=The Times |date=January 20, 2009 |access-date=March 19, 2010 |location=London}} For the first time in his career, Carrey portrayed multiple characters in Disney's 3D animated take on the classic Charles Dickens tale, A Christmas Carol (2009), voicing Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film also starred Robin Wright Penn, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, and Cary Elwes. The film received decent reviews and was a financial success. Carrey landed the lead role in Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), playing Tom Popper Jr., a realtor who becomes the caretaker of a family of penguins. The film received a mixed reception upon release.{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mr_poppers_penguins_2010/ |title=Mr. Popper's Penguins – Rotten Tomatoes |website=Rotten Tomatoes |date=June 17, 2011 |access-date=June 17, 2011 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001129/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mr_poppers_penguins_2010 |url-status=live }}

He starred alongside former co-star Steve Carell in the Don Scardino-directed comedy film The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013). Carrey played Steve Gray, a dangerous street magician who overshadows the formerly successful magician Burt Wonderstone (played by Carell). The film was released in March 2013 to mixed reviews and underperformed significantly at the box office, grossing just over $27 million on a $30 million budget.{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=burtwonderstone.htm |title=The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)|website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=April 28, 2020 |archive-date=October 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020223759/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=burtwonderstone.htm |url-status=live }} Around the same time, he appeared in Kick-Ass 2 (also 2013) as Colonel Stars and Stripes. He retracted support for the film two months prior to its release. He issued a statement via his Twitter account that, in light of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, "Now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence."{{cite web |first=Jackie |last=Willis |url=http://www.etonline.com/dailyfirst/135434_Jim_Carrey_Bashes_Kick_Ass_2_For_Being_Violent/index.html |title=Jim Carrey Bashes 'Kick-Ass 2' For Its Violence |date=June 24, 2013 |website=ET Online |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827101241/http://www.etonline.com/dailyfirst/135434_Jim_Carrey_Bashes_Kick_Ass_2_For_Being_Violent/index.html |archive-date=August 27, 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=August 19, 2013}}

Peter Farrelly said in April 2012 that Carrey and Jeff Daniels would return for a Dumb and Dumber sequel, Dumb and Dumber To, with the Farrelly brothers writing and directing and a planned September 2012 production start.{{cite web |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=88661 |title=Exclusive: Dumb and Dumber 2 Begins Production This September |website=ComingSoon.net |date=April 1, 2012 |access-date=May 5, 2012 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001249/https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/88661-exclusive-dumb-and-dumber-2-begins-production-this-september |url-status=live }} In June, however, Carrey's representative said Carrey had left the project because the comedian felt New Line and Warner Bros. were unenthusiastic toward it.{{cite web |url=http://www.etonline.com/movies/122750_Dumb_and_Dumber_Sequel_Loses_Jim_Carrey/index.html |title=Jim Carrey Moves on From 'Dumber' Sequel |website=ET Online |access-date=June 21, 2012 |archive-date=June 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621084548/http://www.etonline.com/movies/122750_Dumb_and_Dumber_Sequel_Loses_Jim_Carrey/index.html |url-status=dead }} However, on October 1, 2012, Yahoo!'s The Yo Show carried the news item that the script was complete and that the original actors, Carrey and Daniels, would be reprising their roles. The plot involved one of the characters having sired a child and needing to find them to obtain a kidney.{{cite web |url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/jim-carrey-dumb-and-dumber-sequel-happening-hopefully-next-year_article_76557 |title=Jim Carrey: Dumb & Dumber Sequel Happening 'Hopefully Next Year' |first=Jesse|last=Spero |date=March 12, 2013 |publisher=Access Hollywood |access-date=March 14, 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://omg.yahoo.com/yo-show/delayed-movie-sequels-worth-the-wait-30732003.html |title=The Yo Show – Yahoo! omg! |publisher=Yahoo! |access-date=October 22, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023091318/http://omg.yahoo.com/yo-show/delayed-movie-sequels-worth-the-wait-30732003.html |archive-date=October 23, 2012}} Dumb and Dumber To was released in November 2014.

In March 2013, Carrey announced that he had written a children's book titled How Roland Rolls, about a scared wave named Roland. He described it as "kind of a metaphysical children's story, which deals with a lot of heavy stuff in a really childish way." Carrey self-published the book, which was released in September 2013.{{cite news |url=https://educations-site.blogspot.com/2019/03/what-is-affiliate-marketing-and-how-do-start.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324060632/https://educations-site.blogspot.com/2019/03/what-is-affiliate-marketing-and-how-do-start.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 24, 2019 |title=Carrey: Reading to kids is heaven |newspaper=Retford Trader and Guardian |date=March 13, 2013 |access-date=March 14, 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hitfix.com/videos/the-incredible-burt-wonderstone-jim-carrey-interview |title=The Incredible Burt Wonderstone – Jim Carrey Interview |website=HitFix |date=March 13, 2013 |access-date=March 14, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130428081300/http://www.hitfix.com/videos/the-incredible-burt-wonderstone-jim-carrey-interview |archive-date=April 28, 2013 }} On March 25, 2013, Carrey released a parody music video with Eels through Funny or Die, with Carrey replacing Mark Oliver Everett on vocals. The song and video, titled "Cold Dead Hand" and set as a musical act during the variety program Hee Haw, lampoons American gun culture, and specifically former NRA spokesperson Charlton Heston.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/jim-carrey-eels-team-for-gun-culture-parody-20130325 |title=Jim Carrey, Eels Team for Gun Culture Parody |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=March 25, 2013 |access-date=September 1, 2017 |archive-date=September 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923104144/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/jim-carrey-eels-team-for-gun-culture-parody-20130325 |url-status=live }} Carrey delivered the commencement address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, in May 2014 and received an honorary doctorate for his achievements as a comedian, artist, author, and philanthropist.{{cite web |title=Jim Carrey Awarded Honorary Doctorate Degree |newspaper=International Business Times |date=May 27, 2014 |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/jim-carrey-awarded-honorary-doctorate-degree-125435285.html#QrQdz1i |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140601012244/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/jim-carrey-awarded-honorary-doctorate-degree-125435285.html#QrQdz1i |archive-date=June 1, 2014}} On August 29, 2014, Carrey was honored by Canada Post with a limited-edition postage stamp with his portrait on it.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/canada-post-honours-canuck-comedians-with-new-stamp-series-1.2750407 |title=Canada Post honours Canuck comedians with new stamp series |date=August 29, 2014 |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation}} Carrey was a producer on Rubble Kings, a 2015 documentary film that depicts events preceding and following the Hoe Avenue peace meeting.{{cite web |url=http://www.jimcarreyonline.com/recent/news.php?id=2103 |title=Jim Carrey at the DOC NYC for 'Rubble Kings' |publisher=jimcarreyonline.com |date=November 18, 2014 |access-date=June 20, 2015}}

In June 2017, Showtime began airing the dramedy I'm Dying Up Here, for which Carrey served as the executive producer. The show, which chronicles a group of stand-up comics in 1970s Los Angeles, incorporates aspects of Carrey's own experience.{{cite news |last1=Rubin |first1=Rebecca |title=Jim Carrey on 'I'm Dying Up Here': 'It's a Labor of Love' |url=https://variety.com/2017/scene/news/jim-carrey-im-dying-up-here-premiere-1202450651/ |website=Variety |date=June 2017 |access-date=October 23, 2017 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001131/https://variety.com/2017/scene/news/jim-carrey-im-dying-up-here-premiere-1202450651/ |url-status=live }} In September of that year, that same network announced that he would star in a comedy series titled Kidding, which would reunite Carrey and director Michel Gondry.{{cite web |last1=Otterson |first1=Joe |title=Jim Carrey to Star in New Showtime Comedy Series 'Kidding' |url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/jim-carrey-showtime-series-kidding-michael-gondry-1202558804/ |website=Variety |date=September 14, 2017 |access-date=October 23, 2017 |archive-date=December 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171220011737/http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/jim-carrey-showtime-series-kidding-michael-gondry-1202558804/ |url-status=live }} By the end of 2017, it was announced that Catherine Keener would star opposite Carrey in Kidding.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/jim-carrey-showtime-kidding-catherine-keener-1202640871/ |title=Catherine Keener to Star Opposite Jim Carrey in Showtime Series 'Kidding' |first=Joe |last=Otterson |magazine=Variety|date=December 14, 2017 |access-date=December 28, 2017 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001124/https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/jim-carrey-showtime-kidding-catherine-keener-1202640871/ |url-status=live }} The series lasted two seasons.

Carrey was also the subject of two documentaries in 2017. The first, a short subject entitled I Needed Color about his lifelong passion for art, was released online in the summer.{{cite magazine |last1=Romano |first1=Nick |title=Jim Carrey shares his vibrant artwork with the world in documentary short |url=https://ew.com/movies/2017/08/08/jim-carrey-artwork-documentary/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=October 22, 2017 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001304/https://ew.com/movies/2017/08/08/jim-carrey-artwork-documentary/ |url-status=live }} Later that year another documentary, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond—Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton, premiered at The Venice Film Festival and was later picked up by Netflix.{{cite web |last1=Vlessing |first1=Etan |title=Toronto: Netflix Nabs World Rights to 'Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond' |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/toronto-netflix-nabs-world-rights-jim-andy-great-beyond-1037670 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=September 11, 2017 |access-date=October 22, 2017 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001305/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/toronto-netflix-nabs-world-rights-jim-andy-great-beyond-1037670 |url-status=live }} The film chronicles the behind-the-scenes drama during the shooting of Man on the Moon, when he never broke character as Andy Kaufman.{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Artison |title=Venice: Jim Carrey Talks "Psychotic" Journey of Becoming Andy Kaufman |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/venice-jim-carrey-talks-psychotic-journey-becoming-andy-kaufman-1035259 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=September 5, 2017 |access-date=October 22, 2017 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001245/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/venice-jim-carrey-talks-psychotic-journey-becoming-andy-kaufman-1035259 |url-status=live }} It incorporates footage that was shot for the film's electronic press kit but ultimately pulled by Universal as they felt that it was too damaging.{{cite magazine |last1=Holub |first1=Christian |title=Jim Carrey looks back on Andy Kaufman role in new Netflix documentary |url=https://ew.com/movies/2017/10/19/jim-carrey-andy-kaufman-netflix-doc/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=October 19, 2017 |access-date=October 22, 2017 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001343/https://ew.com/movies/2017/10/19/jim-carrey-andy-kaufman-netflix-doc/ |url-status=live }}

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In June 2018, Carrey was cast as Dr. Ivo Robotnik, the main antagonist of the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, in a film adaptation of the franchise. The film was released in February 2020 to positive reviews.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/2/14/21137040/sonic-the-hedgehog-movie-review|title=Sonic the Hedgehog's live-action movie seemed doomed to fail. It escaped unscathed.|first=Allegra|last=Frank|date=February 14, 2020|website=Vox|access-date=May 2, 2020|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001250/https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/2/14/21137040/sonic-the-hedgehog-movie-review|url-status=live}} Carrey's portrayal of Ivo Robotnik was praised, with some considering it one of his best performances in years.{{Cite web|url=https://indiancountrytoday.com/lifestyle/nativenerd-review-sonic-is-all-about-jim-carrey-s-dr-robotnik-3GKZ-3IwVEWjmM0AJQw75A|title=#NativeNerd review: 'Sonic' is all about Jim Carrey's Dr. Robotnik|website=IndianCountryToday.com|access-date=May 2, 2020|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001145/https://indiancountrytoday.com/lifestyle/nativenerd-review-sonic-is-all-about-jim-carrey-s-dr-robotnik-3GKZ-3IwVEWjmM0AJQw75A|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailynebraskan.com/culture/review-jim-carrey-shines-in-surprisingly-enjoyable-sonic-the-hedgehog/article_3b7c19f0-5129-11ea-8d20-f3c5145ce9b6.html|title=Review: Jim Carrey shines in surprisingly enjoyable 'Sonic the Hedgehog'|first=Kyle|last=Kruse|website=The Daily Nebraskan|date=February 17, 2020 |access-date=July 3, 2020|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001140/http://www.dailynebraskan.com/culture/review-jim-carrey-shines-in-surprisingly-enjoyable-sonic-the-hedgehog/article_3b7c19f0-5129-11ea-8d20-f3c5145ce9b6.html|url-status=live}} Carrey returned for Sonic the Hedgehog 2, released in April 2022,{{cite web |last1=Fuster |first1=Jeremy |date=July 23, 2020 |title='Sonic the Hedgehog 2' Gets April 2022 Release Date |url=https://www.thewrap.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-gets-april-2022-release-date/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724111553/https://www.thewrap.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-gets-april-2022-release-date/ |archive-date=July 24, 2020 |website=The Wrap}} which grossed $72 million at the US box office in its opening weekend to give Carrey the best opening of his career to date.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/04/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-ambulance-weekend-box-office-2-1234997180/|title=Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Beats Weekend Opening Of First Movie With $71M; What Ambulance Misfire Means For Action Pics Today – Sunday AM Box Office Update|date=April 10, 2022|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=April 10, 2022}}

In 2020, Carrey published Memoirs and Misinformation.{{Cite web|agency=Associated Press|title=Jim Carrey takes on romance, acting and celebrity with novel 'Memoirs and Misinformation'|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2019/10/02/jim-carrey-takes-romance-acting-and-celebrity-novel-memories-and-misinformation/3839674002/|access-date=June 25, 2020|website=USA TODAY|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001330/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2019/10/02/jim-carrey-takes-romance-acting-and-celebrity-novel-memories-and-misinformation/3839674002/|url-status=live}} In September, during the final stages of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, it was announced that Carrey would portray presidential nominee Joe Biden on the 46th season of Saturday Night Live, taking over the role from Jason Sudeikis, Woody Harrelson and John Mulaney.Itzkoff, Dave, interviewing Lorne Michaels: [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/arts/television/lorne-michaels-saturday-night-live-chris-rock.html "Lorne Michaels Isn't Sure 'S.N.L.' Can Pull This Off: 'Saturday Night Live' returns Oct. 3 with Chris Rock as host. In an interview, Michaels, the show's creator, talks about pandemic preparations and why 'a little danger' can be good for comedy."] September 24, 2020 - updated October 6, 2020. The New York Times. Retrieved November 28, 2020{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/jim-carrey-to-play-joe-biden-on-season-46-of-snl-show-adds-3-to-cast/|title=Jim Carrey to Play Joe Biden on Season 46 of 'SNL'; Show Adds 3 to Cast|first=Tony|last=Maglio|work=The Wrap|date=September 16, 2020|access-date=September 16, 2020|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001220/https://www.thewrap.com/jim-carrey-to-play-joe-biden-on-snl-season-46-lauren-holt-punkie-johnson-andrew-dismukes/|url-status=live}} However, many felt Carrey's high-energy comedy style clashed with the real-life Biden's low-key persona, producing an imitation that lacked authenticity, and failed to impress viewers and critics.{{cite magazine|first=Karen|last=Valby|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/10/snl-jim-carrey-biden-issa-rae|title='Saturday Night Live' Has a Jim Carrey Problem|date=October 18, 2020|magazine=Vanity Fair|accessdate=November 28, 2020}}{{cite news|first=Michael|last=Cavna|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/10/31/jim-carrey-biden-snl-saturday-night-live/|title=Why Jim Carrey's Biden impersonation on SNL isn't quite catching on|date=October 30, 2020|newspaper=Washington Post|accessdate=November 28, 2020}}{{cite news|first=Lorraine|last=Ali|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-11-12/snl-jim-carrey-joe-biden|title=Commentary: Joe Biden won the election, but Jim Carrey's impression of him is 'SNL' fans' loss|date=November 12, 2020|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=November 28, 2020}}{{cite news|first1=Aisha|last1=Harris|authorlink1=Aisha Harris|first2=Tobin|last2=Low|authorlink2=Tobin Low|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/11/11/933871683/the-meaning-of-snl-in-2020|title=The Meaning Of 'SNL' in 2020|website=NPR|accessdate=November 28, 2020}}{{cite magazine|first=Judy|last=Berman|url=https://time.com/5896549/snl-late-night-trump-covid-19/|title=Can We Joke About the President Having COVID-19? Late-Night Comedy Can't Decide|date=October 5, 2020|magazine=Time|accessdate=November 28, 2020}} On December 19, 2020, Carrey announced that he would step down from playing Biden on Saturday Night Live, stating that he had a six-week deal.{{Cite web|first=Rick|last=Porter|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jim-carrey-stepping-down-from-joe-biden-role-on-snl|title=Jim Carrey Stepping Down From Joe Biden Role on 'SNL'|date=December 19, 2020|website=The Hollywood Reporter}}{{Cite web|first=Elise|last=Solé|title=Jim Carrey steps down from 'SNL' role as Joe Biden: 'Comedy's highest call of duty'|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jim-carrey-steps-down-from-his-role-on-saturday-night-live-as-joe-biden-comedys-highest-call-of-duty-201406916.html|date=December 19, 2020|access-date=December 20, 2020|website=Yahoo!}} Cast member Alex Moffat succeeded Carrey in portraying Biden during the cold open of the episode hosted by Kristen Wiig on the same day.{{Cite web|first1=Sharahreh|last1=Drury|first2=Kayla Kumari|last2=Upadhyaya|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/snl-alex-moffat-replaces-jim-carrey-as-joe-biden-in-cold-open|title='SNL': Alex Moffat Replaces Jim Carrey as Joe Biden in Cold Open|date=December 19, 2020|website=The Hollywood Reporter}} Carrey appeared as the narrator of the Weeknd's album Dawn FM, released on January 7, 2022.{{Cite web|last=Ruggieri|first=Melissa|title=On 'Dawn FM,' The Weeknd and Jim Carrey host a dance party in purgatory. Somehow, it works|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/01/07/the-weeknd-dawn-fm-album-review-jim-carrey-radio-dj-lil-wayne-tyler-the-creator-quincy-jones-feature/9108843002/|access-date=January 7, 2022|website=USA Today|date=January 7, 2022}}

In April 2022, Carrey announced that he was considering retirement, saying: "I have enough. I've done enough. I am enough." He said he would return to acting if "angels bring some sort of script that’s written in gold ink that says to me that it’s going to be really important for people to see".{{Cite web |last1=Sharf |first1=Zack |date=April 1, 2022 |title=Jim Carrey 'Fairly Serious' About Retiring From Acting: 'I Have Enough. I've Done Enough' |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/jim-carrey-retiring-acting-1235220945/ |access-date=April 3, 2022 |website=Variety}} In February 2024, it was announced that Carrey would reprise his role as Dr. Ivo Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.{{Cite web |last=Lang |first=Brent |date=February 2, 2024 |title=Jim Carrey Returning for 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3' (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/jim-carrey-returning-sonic-the-hedgehog-3-dr-robotnik-1235894927/ |access-date=February 2, 2024 |website=Variety}} Notably, a copy of the script for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was delivered to Carrey written in 24-carat ink in reference to his previous comments.{{Cite web |title='Sonic the Hedgehog 3' makers print script with '24-carat ink' for Jim Carrey |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1257359-sonic-the-hedgehog-3-makers-print-script-with-24-carat-ink-for-jim-carrey |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=www.thenews.com.pk |language=en}} Carrey also plays Ivo Robotnik’s grandfather, Gerald Robotnik.{{Cite web |last=Dedmon |first=Tanner |date=August 27, 2024 |title=Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Trailer Reveals Surprise Character Also Played by Jim Carrey |url=https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/sonic-the-hedgehog-3-trailer-jim-carrey-dr-gerald-robotnik/ |access-date=August 28, 2024 |website=ComicBook |language=en}} Carrey reportedly told an Associated Press reporter that he agreed to return to the Sonic universe because "I need the money, frankly."{{cite magazine|last=Sharf|first=Zack|title=Jim Carrey Said 'I'm Retiring' in 2022 and 'Fairly Serious' About It, but He's Back in 'Sonic 3': 'I Bought a Lot of Stuff and Need the Money, Frankly'|date=December 10, 2024|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/jim-carrey-sonic-the-hedgehog-3-need-money-1236244938/|accessdate=December 13, 2024}} He later clarified in interviews in December 2024 that he planned to “power rest” rather than retire, while also stating that he was open to continuing his role in the Sonic film series.{{cite web|last=Ridgely|first=Charles|title=Jim Carrey Clarifies Retirement Plans After Sonic 3 (And Fans Should Be Excited)|date=December 11, 2024|website=ComicBook.com|url=https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/jim-carrey-retirement-sonic-3-dr-robotnik-future/|accessdate=December 14, 2024}}{{cite magazine|last=Steinberg|first=Russell|title='Sonic the Hedgehog 3' Star Jim Carrey Says He 'Decided Not to Retire But to Have Power Rests' (Exclusive)|date=December 14, 2024|magazine=Us Weekly|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/sonic-3s-jim-carrey-opted-not-to-retire-but-just-takes-power-rests/|accessdate=December 15, 2024}}

Carrey suffers from depression and took Prozac to combat the symptoms for years. He later said that he no longer takes medications of any kind and abstains from coffee, alcohol and drugs.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carrey-life-is-too-beautiful/ |title=Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful' |last=Leung |first=Rebecca |date=February 11, 2009 |work=60 minutes CBS News |access-date=April 11, 2013 |archive-date=May 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530034324/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-656547.html |url-status=live }}

He received U.S. citizenship in October 2004 and remains a dual citizen of the United States and his native Canada.{{cite web |last=Silverman |first=Stephen M. |title=Jim Carrey Becomes New U.S. Citizen |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,714343,00.html |work=People |access-date=September 10, 2011 |date=October 14, 2004 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193552/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,714343,00.html |url-status=dead }}

Carrey owns various properties in Los Angeles and has lived in Brentwood since 1994.{{cite news | url=https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/jim-carrey-shaves-2-4-million-off-the-price-of-his-longtime-los-angeles-mansion-2ed4a701 | title=Jim Carrey Shaves $2.4 Million off the Price of His Longtime Los Angeles Mansion | date=April 21, 2023 | last1=Block | first1=Fang }} In November 2022, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs banned 100 Canadians including Carrey from entering Russia as a reciprocity for the international sanctions which had been introduced due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.{{cite news|date=November 14, 2022|title=Russia bans 100 Canadians including Atwood, Jim Carrey|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-bans-100-canadians-including-atwood-jim-carrey/2022/11/14/c717708e-6433-11ed-b08c-3ce222607059_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=November 14, 2022}}

File:Jim Carrey horton hears a who 2008.jpg premiere in 2008]] Carrey dated singer Linda Ronstadt for eight months in 1983.{{Cite interview |interviewer=Howard Stern |title=Movie Star Jim Carrey Stops By |url=http://www.howardstern.com/howard-on-air/howard-100-101/2014-10-28 |access-date=November 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031070710/http://www.howardstern.com/howard-on-air/howard-100-101/2014-10-28 |archive-date=October 31, 2014 |date=October 28, 2014 |url-status=dead }} In 1987, on March 28, Carrey married former actress and Comedy Store waitress Melissa Womer. Their daughter, Jane Erin Carrey, was born on September 6, 1987.[http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/who/news/05072009/no-lie-jim-carrey-to-be-a-grandfather.html No Lie – Jim Carrey Will Be a Grandfather – Jim Carrey's 21-year-old daughter is expecting!] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090715044223/http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/who/news/05072009/no-lie-jim-carrey-to-be-a-grandfather.html |date=July 15, 2009 }} Yahoo!. July 10, 2009. Carrey and Womer divorced in 1995.{{cite news |url=http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/mar/01/carreys-wife-speaks-out-about-pending-divorce/ |title=Carrey's Wife Speaks Out About Pending Divorce |last=Stasi |first=Linda |date=March 1, 1995 |work=The Spokesman-Review |access-date=November 9, 2016 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001159/https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/mar/01/carreys-wife-speaks-out-about-pending-divorce/ |url-status=live }}

On September 23, 1996, Carrey married his Dumb and Dumber co-star Lauren Holly; this second marriage lasted less than a year.{{cite news |url=http://www.eonline.com/news/34930/holly-seeks-divorce-from-carrey |title=Holly Seeks Divorce from Carrey |last=Errico |first=Marcus |date=July 30, 1997 |publisher=E! |access-date=November 9, 2016 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001400/https://www.eonline.com/news/34930/holly-seeks-divorce-from-carrey |url-status=live }} From 1999 to 2000, Carrey was engaged to his Me, Myself and Irene co-star Renée Zellweger.{{cite web |title=Renee Zellweger was engaged to Jim Carrey |url=http://www.zimbio.com/dating/mdGo6RLibqH/Renee+Zellweger+engaged+Jim+Carrey/Renee+Zellweger |work=Zimbio |publisher=Zimbio.com |access-date=April 27, 2012 |archive-date=February 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213030921/http://www.zimbio.com/dating/mdGo6RLibqH/Renee+Zellweger+engaged+Jim+Carrey/Renee+Zellweger |url-status=live }} In 2002, he was in a relationship with January Jones.{{Cite web|title=January Jones and Jim Carrey|url=https://www.etonline.com/gallery/143858_Surprising_Celebrity_Hookups/january-jones-and-jim-carrey-3950|access-date=June 18, 2021|website=Entertainment Tonight}} In 2005, Carrey met model and actress Jenny McCarthy, and he made public in June 2006 that they were in a romantic relationship. They ended it in April 2010,{{cite web |url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Jim-Carrey-And-Jenny-McCarthy-Announce-Split-After-Five-Years-Together/Article/201004115596449?f=rss |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120629044704/http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Jim-Carrey-And-Jenny-McCarthy-Announce-Split-After-Five-Years-Together/Article/201004115596449?f=rss |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 29, 2012 |title=Jim Carrey And Jenny McCarthy Announce Split After Five Years Together |publisher=Sky News |access-date=February 7, 2011}} with McCarthy noting in October 2010 that they had remained good friends.{{cite web |title=Jenny McCarthy: Jim and I are still good friends |url=http://www.scoopcelebrity.com/jenny-mccarthy-jim-good-friends |work=Scoop Celebrity |access-date=April 27, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140601002233/http://www.scoopcelebrity.com/jenny-mccarthy-jim-good-friends |archive-date=June 1, 2014}}

In 2012, Carrey met Cathriona White, a makeup artist from County Tipperary, Ireland.{{cite web|date=September 29, 2015|title=Jim Carrey's girlfriend Cathriona White dies, aged 30|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11899510/Jim-Carreys-girlfriend-Cathriona-White-dies-aged-30.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=April 4, 2018|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001200/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11899510/Jim-Carreys-girlfriend-Cathriona-White-dies-aged-30.html|url-status=live}} They dated between 2012 and 2015. On September 28, 2015, White was found dead from a prescription drug overdose; the death was ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.{{Cite web|url=https://mec.lacounty.gov/case-detail/?caseNumber=2015-06781|title=Carthriona White case detail|website=Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner|date=June 28, 2023 }} Carrey was a pallbearer at her funeral in Cappawhite, Ireland.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jim-carrey-attends-funeral-late-831197 |title=Jim Carrey Attends Funeral of Late Girlfriend Cathriona White, Carries Coffin |author=Natalie Stone |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=October 10, 2015 |access-date=April 28, 2020 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001219/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jim-carrey-attends-funeral-late-831197 |url-status=live }} In January 2019 when Carrey attended the Golden Globes 2019 Party, he was accompanied by his then-girlfriend Ginger Gonzaga.{{Cite web |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/jim-carrey-is-dating-ginger-gonzaga-see-their-red-carpet-debut/ |title=Jim Carrey Is Dating Actress Ginger Gonzaga: See Their Red Carpet Debut! |date=January 6, 2019 |website=Us Weekly |access-date=January 7, 2019 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001219/https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/jim-carrey-is-dating-ginger-gonzaga-see-their-red-carpet-debut/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/golden-globes/jim-carrey-is-dating-ginger-gonzaga-see-their-sweet-red-carpet-debut/ar-BBRSLei |title=Jim Carrey Is Dating Ginger Gonzaga – See Their Sweet Red Carpet Debut! |publisher=MSN |access-date=January 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107181140/https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/golden-globes/jim-carrey-is-dating-ginger-gonzaga-see-their-sweet-red-carpet-debut/ar-BBRSLei |archive-date=January 7, 2019 |url-status=dead }} The couple split after less than a year of dating.{{Cite web|title=Jim Carrey and Ginger Gonzaga Split After Less Than a Year of Dating|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/jim-carrey-and-ginger-gonzaga-split-after-less-than-a-year-of-dating/ar-AAIZ8XV|access-date=June 16, 2020|website=www.msn.com}}

Carrey's girlfriend Cathriona White married Mark Burton in 2013, in Las Vegas. She and Carrey had been dating on and off since 2012, and was still married but dating Carrey when she died in 2015.{{Cite magazine |first=Sierra |last=Marquina |date=October 7, 2015 |title=Cathriona White Was Married to Mark Burton: See the Marriage Certificate |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/jim-carreys-girlfriend-cathriona-white-was-married-to-mark-burton-2015610/ |access-date=November 30, 2022 |magazine=Us Weekly}} On September 19, 2016, Burton filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Carrey, claiming that he had used his "immense wealth and celebrity status" to illegally obtain and distribute prescription drugs involved in White's death. Carrey released a statement the following day:

{{blockquote|text=What a terrible shame. It would be easy for me to get in a back room with this man's lawyer and make this go away, but there are some moments in life when you have to stand up and defend your honor against the evil in this world. I will not tolerate this heartless attempt to exploit me or the woman I loved. Cat's troubles were born long before I met her and sadly her tragic end was beyond anyone's control. I really hope that some day soon people will stop trying to profit from this and let her rest in peace.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/09/19/jim-carrey-sued-wrongful-death-girlfriend/90704556 |title=Jim Carrey sued for wrongful death of girlfriend |author=Puente, Maria |website=USA Today |date=September 19, 2016 |access-date=September 20, 2016 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001222/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/09/19/jim-carrey-sued-wrongful-death-girlfriend/90704556/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/jim-carrey-sued-over-former-girlfriends-suicide-cathriona-white |title=Jim Carrey sued over former girlfriend's suicide |website=The Guardian |date=September 20, 2016 |access-date=September 20, 2016 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001339/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/jim-carrey-sued-over-former-girlfriends-suicide-cathriona-white |url-status=live }}|author=|title=|source=}}

In October 2016, White's mother, Brigid Sweetman, also filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Carrey.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/cathriona-whites-mom-sues-jim-carrey-for-wrongful-death-w444401 |title=Cathriona White's Mom, Brigid Sweetman, Sues Jim Carrey for Daughter's Wrongful Death |magazine=Us Weekly |first=Sierra |last=Marquina |date=October 11, 2016 |access-date=October 25, 2016 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001203/https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/cathriona-whites-mom-sues-jim-carrey-for-wrongful-death-w444401/ |url-status=live }} Sweetman later issued a statement: "These documents show that Jim Carrey has lied to the media, the public and the court. Carrey has now been shown for what he is—a dishonest Hollywood celebrity who thinks he can say anything and fool people just because he is famous."{{cite web |url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebrities-gone-bad/jim-carrey-alleged-std-test-has-been-submitted-as-evidence/news-story/a3cb917d20ce8a954da2ca593d3c0901 |title=Jim Carrey alleged STD test has been submitted as evidence |website=News.com.au |date=October 22, 2016 |access-date=October 25, 2016 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001207/https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/jim-carrey-alleged-std-test-has-been-submitted-as-evidence/news-story/a3cb917d20ce8a954da2ca593d3c0901 |url-status=live }} Both lawsuits were dismissed on January 25, 2018, and attorneys for both sides confirmed there would be no further legal proceedings.{{cite web |last1=McLevy |first1=Alex |title=Court dismisses wrongful death lawsuit against Jim Carrey |url=https://www.avclub.com/court-dismisses-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-jim-carr-1822630778 |website=The A.V. Club |date=February 2018 |access-date=February 8, 2018 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001209/https://www.avclub.com/court-dismisses-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-jim-carr-1822630778 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Cullins |first1=Ashley |title=Jim Carrey Clear of Lawsuits Over Former Girlfriend's Death |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/jim-carrey-clear-lawsuits-girlfriends-death-1080818 |access-date=February 18, 2018 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=January 31, 2018 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001350/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/jim-carrey-clear-lawsuits-girlfriends-death-1080818 |url-status=live }}

In 2009, Carrey wrote an article questioning the merits of vaccination for The Huffington Post.{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-carrey/the-judgment-on-vaccines_b_189777.html |title=Jim Carrey: The Judgment on Vaccines Is In??? |work=HuffPost |access-date=February 7, 2011 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001208/https://www.huffpost.com/static/editors-note-vaccine |url-status=live }} With former partner Jenny McCarthy, Carrey led a "Green Our Vaccines" march in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the removal of "toxic substances" from children's vaccines, out of a belief that children had received "too many vaccines, too soon, many of which are toxic".{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=4987758 |work=ABC News |title=Celeb Couple to Lead 'Green Vaccine' Rally |first1=Jonann |last1=Brady |first2=Stephanie |last2=Dahle |date=June 4, 2008 |access-date=March 16, 2011 |archive-date=December 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207162725/https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=4987758 |url-status=live }} The rally was criticized by David Gorski, an American surgical oncologist on Science-Based Medicine blog, for being anti-vaccine and not "pro-safe vaccine",{{cite news |url=https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/jenny-mccarthy-jim-carrey-and-green-our-vaccines-anti-vaccine-not-pro-safe-vaccine/ |title=Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and "Green Our Vaccines": Anti-vaccine, not "pro-safe vaccine" |work=Science Based Medicine |access-date=July 3, 2015}} and by Steven Parker on the WebMD website for being "irresponsible".{{cite news |url=http://blogs.webmd.com/healthy-children/2008/06/green-our-vaccines.html |title=Green Our Vaccines? |work=WebMD |access-date=July 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705214043/http://blogs.webmd.com/healthy-children/2008/06/green-our-vaccines.html |archive-date=July 5, 2015 |url-status=dead}}

On July 1, 2015, after the signing of a new vaccination law, Carrey called California Governor Jerry Brown a "corporate fascist" who was "poisoning" children by enacting the vaccination requirements.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-actor-jim-carrey-vaccines-20150701-story.html |title=Jim Carrey calls Gov. Brown a 'fascist' for signing new vaccination law |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=July 3, 2015 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001224/https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-actor-jim-carrey-vaccines-20150701-story.html |url-status=live }} The law disallowed religious and philosophical reasons for exemption from vaccination. Carrey was criticized for being "ignorant when it comes to vaccines" by Arthur Caplan, head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University,{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/commentary-why-jim-carrey-wrong-about-vaccines-n385321 |title=Ethicist: Why Jim Carrey is Wrong About Vaccines |work=NBC News |access-date=July 3, 2015 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001209/https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/commentary-why-jim-carrey-wrong-about-vaccines-n385321 |url-status=live }} and by Jeffrey Kluger, senior writer at Time, who described his anti-vaccination statements as "angry, dense and immune to reason".{{cite news |first=Jeffrey |last=Kluger |author-link=Jeffrey Kluger |url=https://time.com/3944067/jim-carrey-vaccines/ |title=Ethicist: Jim Carrey, Please Shut Up About Vaccines |work=Time Magazine |access-date=July 6, 2015 |archive-date=July 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707195748/http://time.com/3944067/jim-carrey-vaccines/ |url-status=live }}

Carrey is an outspoken advocate of the "law of attraction". In an interview with Oprah Winfrey on February 17, 1997,{{youTube|nPU5bjzLZX0|What Oprah Learned from Jim Carrey – Oprah's Lifeclass – Oprah Winfrey Network}} he revealed that as a struggling actor he would use visualization techniques to get work. He also stated that he visualized a $10 million check given to him for "acting services rendered", placed the check in his pocket, and seven years later received a $10 million check for his role in Dumb and Dumber.{{Cite news |url=http://www.oprah.com/oprahs-lifeclass/what-oprah-learned-from-jim-carrey-video |title=What Oprah Learned from Jim Carrey |newspaper=Oprah.com |access-date=January 19, 2017 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202075713/http://www.oprah.com/oprahs-lifeclass/what-oprah-learned-from-jim-carrey-video |url-status=live }} Carrey practices Transcendental Meditation.{{cite web |last=Hasty |first=Katie |title=Carrey on Dumb and Dumber sequel |url=http://www.hitfix.com/news/jim-carrey-on-finished-dumb-and-dumber-to-very-funny |website=Hitfix|date=February 28, 2014|access-date=April 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317080746/http://www.hitfix.com/news/jim-carrey-on-finished-dumb-and-dumber-to-very-funny |archive-date=March 17, 2014 |quote=The DLF raises awareness and furthers education on transcendental meditation, of which Carrey is a practicioner [sic] and admirer. |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/jim-carrey-commencement-speech/ |title=Jim Carrey's inspiring commencement speech |first=Lisa Respers|last=France|date=May 28, 2014 |website=CNN}} Carrey has also advocated socialism and has urged the Democratic Party to embrace the movement saying "We have to say yes to socialism, to the word and everything. We have to stop apologizing".{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/10/jim-carrey-tells-democrats-we-have-say-yes-socialism/ |title=Jim Carrey tells Democrats: 'We have to say yes to socialism' |last=Wang |first=Amy B. |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=September 10, 2018 |access-date=February 7, 2023}}

Carrey has shared his own political cartoon drawings since August 2017, including controversial renderings of then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and then-President Donald Trump.{{Cite news|last=Izadi|first=Elahe|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/03/19/a-short-history-of-jim-carreys-burgeoning-career-as-an-anti-trump-political-cartoonist/|title=A Short History of Jim Carrey's Burgeoning Career as an Anti Trump Political Cartoonist|date=March 29, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|url-status=live|access-date=April 5, 2018|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001222/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/03/19/a-short-history-of-jim-carreys-burgeoning-career-as-an-anti-trump-political-cartoonist/}}{{subscription required}} He sparked an international event on March 31, 2019, posting a drawing criticizing fascism by depicting Benito Mussolini's infamous death with Clara Petacci; this irked Mussolini's granddaughter Alessandra, who chided him on Twitter, calling him "a bastard" and his artworks "dirty paper".{{Cite news|last=Farzan|first=Antonia Noori|authorlink=Antonia Noori Farzan|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/01/benito-mussolinis-granddaughter-has-spent-decades-defending-him-now-shes-feuding-with-jim-carrey/|title=Benito Mussolini's granddaughter has spent decades defending him. Now she's feuding with Jim Carrey.|date=April 1, 2019|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 2, 2019|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001333/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/01/benito-mussolinis-granddaughter-has-spent-decades-defending-him-now-shes-feuding-with-jim-carrey/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jim-carrey-s-picture-mussolini-s-demise-sparks-twitter-tirade-n989566|title=Jim Carrey's picture of Mussolini's demise sparks Twitter tirade from dictator's granddaughter|last=Siemaszko|first=Corky|date=April 1, 2019|website=NBC News|access-date=April 3, 2019|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001209/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jim-carrey-s-picture-mussolini-s-demise-sparks-twitter-tirade-n989566|url-status=live}} His drawing repertoire culminated in an exhibition titled IndigNation, which opened on October 23, 2018, at the Maccarone Gallery in Los Angeles and featured 108 pen-and-ink drawings from Carrey's Twitter feed from 2016 to 2018.{{Cite news |first=Christina Catherine |last=Martinez |url=https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/jim-carrey-trump-political-cartoons/index.html |title=Jim Carrey targets Trump with blunt political cartoons |date=November 14, 2018 |website=CNN |access-date=November 14, 2008 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001348/https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/jim-carrey-trump-political-cartoons/index.html |url-status=live }} In February 2021, Carrey announced he would discontinue political cartoons.{{cite web |last1=Alexander |first1=Bryan |title=Jim Carrey retires from political cartoons now that Donald Trump ('Orange Julius Caesar') is no longer president |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/02/21/jim-carrey-retires-donald-trump-political-cartoons/4537139001/ |website=USA TODAY |access-date=July 21, 2024}}

In a 2004 interview with 60 Minutes, Carrey reportedly said, “I'm a Buddhist, I'm a Muslim, I'm a Christian.”{{cite web|last=Leung|first=Rebecca|title=Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful'|date=November 18, 2004|website=CBS News|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carrey-life-is-too-beautiful/|accessdate=January 5, 2025}} In June 2017, Carrey delivered a speech at a Homeboy Industries event, where he said, “I want to speak to the fact that I believe that this room is filled with God, and that you are heroes to me and I admire you.”{{cite news|last=Ortega Law|first=Jeannie|title=Jim Carrey Preaches Grace of Jesus to Former Inmates: 'Suffering Leads to Salvation' (Video)|date=July 22, 2017|newspaper=The Christian Post|url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/jim-carrey-preaches-grace-jesus-to-inmates-suffering-leads-salvation.html|accessdate=January 5, 2025}}

In 2017, Carrey revealed that he had been painting for the past six years. In 2011, he exhibited the painting Nothing to See Here in an art show in Palm Springs at the Heather James Fine Art Gallery.{{Cite news |last=Cascone |first=Sarah |date=September 27, 2017 |title=Jim Carrey Spent the Last Six Years Painting. Now, See What the Actor-Turned-Artist Has Created. |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jim-carrey-gallery-exhibition-1097609 |access-date=June 10, 2022 |website=Artnet News}} In 2017, Carrey released a six-minute documentary entitled, I Needed Color, which showed him working in his studio. In April 2022, Carrey announced that he had minted his first art NFT via the NFT platform SuperRare. The NFT is based on a painting entitled Sunshower, and is accompanied by original voiceover.{{Cite web |last=Jacobs |first=Harrison |date=June 10, 2022 |title=Actor and Artist Jim Carrey Is Minting His First NFT on SuperRare |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jim-carrey-is-minting-his-first-nft-superrare-sunflower-1234631510/ |access-date=June 10, 2022 |website=ARTnews.com}}

{{Main|List of awards and nominations received by Jim Carrey}}

{{Main|Jim Carrey filmography}}

• "Ace Is in the House" with Tone Loc (1994)
• "Cuban Pete" (1995) – AUS {{Numero|88}},Australian (ARIA) chart peaks:
• {{cite book |last=Ryan |first=Gavin |title=Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 |year=2011 |publisher=Moonlight Publishing |location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia}}
• "Cuban Pete": {{cite web |url=http://i.imgur.com/xbjtJp1.jpg |title=The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 26 Feb 1995 |publisher=Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA) |access-date=December 13, 2016 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001349/https://i.imgur.com/xbjtJp1.jpg |url-status=live }} UK {{Numero|31}}{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/31095/jim-carrey/ |title=Official Charts Jim Carrey |publisher=The Official UK Charts Company |access-date=December 13, 2016 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001230/https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/31095/jim-carrey/ |url-status=live }}
• "Somebody to Love" (1996) – AUS {{Numero|62}}
• "Cold Dead Hand" (2013) (as Lonesome Earl and the Clutterbusters)

• George Martin {{ndash}} "I Am the Walrus" (1998)
• The Weeknd {{ndash}} "Dawn FM", "Out of Time" and "Phantom Regret by Jim" (2022)

• {{cite book |last=Carrey |first=Jim |year=2013 |title=How Roland Rolls |publisher=Some Kind of Garden Media |others=Illustrated by Rob Nason |isbn=978-0-9893680-0-1}}
• {{cite book |last1=Carrey |first1=Jim |last2=Vachon |first2=Dana |year=2020 |title=Memoirs and Misinformation |publisher=Knopf |isbn=9780525655978}}{{cite news |url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/jim-carrey-memoirs-and-misinformation-book.html |publisher=Vulture |date=October 2, 2019 |title=Jim Carrey to Publish a Novel That Will Make Us All Question What Truth Is |author=Megh Wright |access-date=February 14, 2020 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001218/https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/jim-carrey-memoirs-and-misinformation-book.html |url-status=live }}

• {{cite book |contributor-last=Carrey |contributor-first=Jim |contribution=Foreword |year=2004 |title=It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs |author=Rodney Dangerfield |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-621107-7}}

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• {{Cite book |last=Krulik |first=Nancy |year=2001 |title=Jim Carrey: Fun and Funnier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5QJsSTTjIJAC&q=Jim%20Carrey&pg=PP1 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=0-7434-2219-8 }}

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• [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/james-jim-carrey Jim Carrey] at The Canadian Encyclopedia

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