Comments on: 'Who!' Made Jim Carrey Do This On 'Idol'?

By: Jessy S.

Jessy S. — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:21:13 +0000

For the record, this movie made $40 million at the Box office. At least Jim Carrey did a good job with promotion. BTW, in Cable Guy, Jim was paid to be a jerk and he did his job well. In fact, he is one of the few super talented actors and actresses out there along with the following:

George Clooney: Don’t laugh but he does a good job almost everytime out.
Alexis Beidel: Can ham it up but is believable in most scenes.
Lauren Graham: She and Alexis can handle a fast talking script with ease.
Ellen Page: Only 21, but is ready to become a leading lady.
Stephen Colbert: This man needs a sitcom pronto and Jim Carrey can be his neighor.

By: George Glass

George Glass — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:19:30 +0000

If this is what he has to do to get his 8 million (plus, no doubt a piece of the backend) then go Jim! Promote the hell out of it wearing anything you want. Or nothing at all. Who cares? You’re being paid more than most of us can hope to get in a lifetime.

I for one don’t think it’s humiliating at all to purposefully look silly promoting a movie for children. Especially if you’re being paid for it!

By: Taylor Dane

Taylor Dane — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:52:14 +0000

I think it’s time his manager stops pushing his other client Wil Farrel into dumb sports comedies, and get back to Jim’s career again…

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:03:51 +0000

What is the story with the actors bad-mouthing the directors publicly in this LA Times article?

It seems very classless. Not surprising for Carrey, but strange for Carrell and Burnett to go along with it. Nikki, any idea?

By: Unindicted Co-conspirator

Unindicted Co-conspirator — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:05:29 +0000

Carrey’s career is in the toilet, mostly because of truly awful choices by him, both in the choice of movies he’s done & the bizarre acting style he chooses for the roles in those movies [that godawful annoying voice in ‘The Cable Guy’ comes to mind, I’ve never have gotten past 30 min. of it].

Maybe the duck costume was a hint that he wants to bring back ‘The Duck Factory’.
He was terrific then.
Success ruined him, he became one of the worst prima donna’s in town!

And at least Drudge hasn’t linked to any of your threads yet.
No wing-nut posts as of now.

By: Scurmudgeon

Scurmudgeon — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:57:32 +0000

I actually thought it was pretty funny and didn’t think much about it until I came to DHD and found Nikki making a big deal out of it.

To tell the truth, it was refreshing to see Jim Carrey at all. We’re rather used to seeing him make an ass out of himself on TV and he hasn’t done it for a long time. It’s more of a return to form. You know, the same “talent” that propelled him to stardom.

By: tp

tp — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:07:26 +0000

This is one of the most talented guys out there. He obviously is getting THE worst advice. No way was he ‘contractually obligated’ to wear that outfit, for a voice job. His people thought it would work, and they threw carrey to the wolves. They miscalculated. Horton was all over idol anyway, and didnt need jim in the outfit. For a guy trying to prove he is worth the aggrivation, he went way overboard.

By: derhoeven

derhoeven — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:59:23 +0000

much ado about nothing.
jim carrey was plugging a movie.
the same way he goes on leno/letterman to plug his movies.
if he sat in the audience sporting a suit and just nodding to the camera it would have been odd.
people are acting like it was the president wearing a duck costume for the state of the union address (maybe next year?)

By: Voyeur

Voyeur — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:17:02 +0000

I guess I saw this in a totally different light. Jim Carrey seemed to be a genuinely good sport about it and looked like he was having fun. yes - he copped to the absurdity of it all, but that’s kind of his thing. I don’t think you can star in an expensive family movie then not want to promote it, especially in front of such a large and demographically appropriate audience. I thought it was a cute way for him him to accomplish that.

i realize DHD has to have a snarky opinion about everything (that’s why we love it) but this rant seems like the product of a slow news day.

Now let’s get back to more secretly taped phone calls…

By: whydopeoplewatchthis

whydopeoplewatchthis — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:05:39 +0000

It’s sick - it’s like these corporate devils are ridiculing and belittling the idea of talent…Jim Carrey’s talent, the idea of an individual’s singing talent, the idea of an artist being autonomous. I’m serious, this is sick. I haven’t seen this show in a long time. So twisted…

By: Webster

Webster — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:41:23 +0000

Much ado about nothing. It’s a kids’ movie, a Fox movie, and the No. 1 show/promotional vehicle on TV. Had the movie tanked, Fox would have been slapped if Carrey WASN’T Whortin’ the film on AI.

By: Arlo J. Wiley

Arlo J. Wiley — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:46:45 +0000

Aww, I still love Jim, even if that was incredibly lame. (It’s still not as bad as the utter defacing of Lennon/McCartney tunes was this week and will be again next week.)

After all, he did do The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, two of the best films I’ve ever seen, no matter how many years ago they were.

By: SS

SS — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:21:44 +0000

Carrey should do a film for Warner Bros.

They let male stars flop over and over.

By: Sandy Daley

Sandy Daley — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:47:36 +0000

Wow. That’s friggin’ pathetic. How far they fall. Though about time some of these people who no longer live in the real world are forced to come back down to earth.

By: Michael Dobrofsky

Michael Dobrofsky — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:42:14 +0000

Yikes. That was embarrassing. What little credibility he had left was just vaporized.