Aside from his string of success as an impersonator, he also became widely known for movies like ‘A Night at The Roxbury’, ‘Old School’, ‘Anchorman’, ‘Elf’, ‘Stranger Than Fiction’, ‘Talladega Nights’, ‘Semi-Pro’, ‘Blades of Glory’ and ‘The Other Guys’.Ĭarrey’s big break on screen was via movies like ‘Ace Ventura: Ace Detective’, ‘The Mask’ (this earned him a Golden Globe nomination, by the way), ‘Dumb and Dumber’, ‘The Cable Guy’, ‘Liar Liar’, ‘The Truman Show’ and ‘Man On The Moon’. His acting is said to be a combination of the styles of Jerry Lewis and Robin Williams but he is by all means a natural comic on his own.įerrell got his big break as a cast member of Saturday Night Live. Ferrell is widely known as one of the funniest cast members of Saturday Night Live, but in the movies he is known to play dumb characters which allows him to open up his eyes wide in bewilderment and distort his body to express his confusion and innocence.Ĭarrey has also done some character impersonations, he was brilliant and riveting during his time on 'In Living Color', but his real talent shows on the bigger screen. For a time, Carrey and his family had to live in a tent and in a Volkswagen camper.įerrell loved to impersonate characters and among the celebrities whose characters he personified included Alex Trebek, Jesse Ventura, Charles Heston, George W. Although like Ferrel, Carrey also had a musician father his family was poorer in the sense that his father had to sell his musical instrument just to pay the hospital bills of his wife. He would disguise his voice as he did the daily morning announcements over the school’s public system.Ĭarrey, meanwhile, had a more humble beginning.
Ferrell’s interest in performing and acting took shape while he was still in high school. These two came from different upbringings.
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