Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey is in the In Living Color (Fox, 1990–1994) ensemble, the 1990s Fox sketch house Keenen Ivory Wayans built on hip-hop energy, a mostly Black company, and dance breaks between bits. The Wayans bench, Jamie Foxx, David Alan Grier: stars minted in public.

Carrey is rubber voltage in that factory — Fire Marshal Bill among the house dangers, a face the sketch hour used at full cartoon. Five seasons of comedy as a contact sport.

Do not reduce Jim Carrey to a later-career footnote. In Living Color (Fox, 1990–1994) is the brief. Jim Carrey minted faces in public on In Living Color — Keenen Ivory Wayans’s Fox sketch house, hip-hop energy, a mostly Black ensemble, dance breaks between bits, Fire Marshal Bill as living-room danger. 1990s stars as a weekly factory.

Cue s01e01 first, because Keenen Ivory Wayans opens the house: hip-hop energy, mostly Black ensemble, dance breaks already the commercial. Then s03e01, where Various changes the temperature — Homey the Sellout, part two: catchphrase as character, the Wayans bench still minting stars in public. When someone calls Various furniture, cue s03e08 — Late Night with Mike Tyson: celebrity sketch as Fox weather, Carrey and Foxx already the clip factory.

On TV Flash he is the sketch, not the after. Watch the ensemble as industrial policy. We file Carrey as 1990s variety-comedy craft: the player who made a Fox hour photograph as a dare, still the reason In Living Color has a rubber man between Homey and the Fly Girls.