Jim Carrey hit a home run with his dead-on spoofs of Matthew McConaughey’s Lincoln car commercials on “Saturday Night Live” last week.
Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson sat down with Jim and his “Dumb and Dumber To” co-star, Jeff Daniels, and Jim revealed the “SNL” car ads were his idea.
“I saw those commercials and I immediately called ‘SNL’ and I said, ‘One of the first things I want to do, I want to do a running thing just like I’m being bombarded during the football game. You know, every commercial break there’s another commercial,'” Jim told Shaun at the “Dumb and Dumber To” junket in Los Angeles on Saturday. “And I said, ‘This has to stop.’
Added Jeff, “Intervention is necessary.”
“It’s like a loving family that needs to sit Matthew down and say, ‘Brother, we love you,” Jim continued.
Jim said he enjoyed being back on “SNL” for his third hosting gig.
“It’s always great because I’m kind of like a weird, elder statesmen of sorts in comedy, if you can call somebody in comedy that, but I go in there and to me it’s like, ‘Don’t be nervous, I feed off the blood of the living!'” he joked. “We just go to it and it’s so much fun mixing it up with all those guys, and they’re all young and desperate and we have a blast.
“And it reminds me of ‘In Living Color’ – I just get into the building and just start spewing heavily and somebody smarter than I organizes it,” he added.
Catch Jim and Jeff in “Dumb and Dumber To” when the film hits theaterson November 14.
— Erin O’Sullivan
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