our first guest tonight is very funny Man starring in a new film entitled Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind it opens on Friday ladies and gentlemen here's Jim Carrey [Applause]
oh my God welcome back to the show yeah baby first of all thank you very much for coming
in I mentioned this earlier you don't need to be here you don't need to be doing this little
nickel and dime dog and pony show I don't believe that but we're grateful that you've
showed up I'm so happy to be here nice to see you and your your hair is different and why is that
single white male Dave single white male I've been stalking you no and uh
you're everything I want to be well there's a dream come true
no I just you know I have to change my look all the time yeah because you know I'm in Show
Business you got to keep fresh it's I'm kind of thought of as the Madonna of Comedy always
Reinventing myself and stuff so that someday I can look out at that crowd and go I'm 60 and shitty
you know Madonna 60 and 60 tour well it's certainly effective I mean it's
a real clean look a lot of people say I look like Lance Armstrong
especially when I do this yeah [Applause] right now what you're doing is drafting
yeah I'm driving you're drafting you're saving your energy for the end of the race
Make Your Move pretty soon okay fantastic there's no feeling like it man
it's great yeah that's [Applause] [Music] it
around mile 50 is where I break away from the pack by just passing wind
that's something lovely to be near it's an image you know
now uh when you when you come to New York student I don't know how long you're going
to be in town but it's a beautiful day I mean the spring really you can just feel
it you can breathe I love it it's fantastic and what is a guy like a rose in Spanish
Harlem creeping up through the sidewalk yeah on a day like today do you get a breakthrough
go out and enjoy yourself at all when you're in town what kind of things I love it you know I
was here for a long time last year I was here for about oh five months oh they shot this film here
yeah we shot the film and I had such a great time because I'd never been here for more than a week
well I had a blast I was using everything man I was going down to you know I was Roosevelt Island
playing tennis at night you know it was great uh I was uh in the subway I was eating stuff on
the street you know it's just not even from the vendors yeah just stuff on the street yeah and
because I was part of part of the city you know I was part of New
York experience exactly steam over the the manholes and stuff I just get a nice Steam
clean your pores right out man and uh gosh I went to I went to Chelsea Pier to work out I
worked out in the boxing ring at Chelsea Pier in front of the whole city and at
the end of it I would just say that's right New York that that's what you call Krav Maga
I'm sorry you call it what Krav Maga you ever hear that self-defense I don't know
this Israeli street fighting oh I see that's what it is yeah it's fantastic see the quarter
of that yeah I could force that into your brain right now all right why not go ahead
it would be far too vulgar a display of my powers now you uh oh my God my mom was right I'm stuck
I'm sorry we had a point here now are you uh uh I know when you're ever on the show
you're nice enough to always trying new things a little experimentational uh sort of interest in
always making things you know like I said keeping things fresh I like to keep things interesting
experimental stuff absolutely in my work if you have a little something for us tonight even where
I do that when I do the a talk show it's it's it's really hard to do something original you
know I mean you do it every day yeah I gave up on that years ago really okay you let that go
well you do the same old stuff so well you really do well that's what counts
yeah what were you talking about oh talking about did you have something new you wanted
to share with us tonight yeah the only thing I could think of because I've been on so many
shows and promoting and stuff what's going to be rebellious nowadays right everybody's
cursing everybody's it's like everything's crazy you know everybody's going for the limit and I
thought well what can be done and the only thing that I could think of on a talk show
that has never been done is not to talk sort of take a step back right right right well
just what I mean if we could do the little experiment it'd be really are you talking
about here can we do it can we experiment with this I mean what it would be well
I think it could be groundbreaking television where you don't talk or I don't talk none of us
talk neither of us all none of us talk you don't talk I don't talk we just sit here and the crowd
everybody no one makes a sound or anything it's as if this isn't happening we're just sitting in
the park all by ourselves the band doesn't play nobody does anything nobody speaks to each other
and now from now on like in the next minute when people tune in all across America they're gonna
see the freakiest television show they ever saw in their lives right they'll just keep going
I don't know I don't know it's different it's counter programming all right now so I uh when
do we let's begin right and we should continue directing the show as if we're talking though by
the way I'm a control freak I'll stop now okay so starting now that's for both of us yes right now
thank you
[Applause]
oh great
that's really can you excuse me man just a second who is the cell phone who's got the cell phone
who has the cell phone keep coming from here so man hey this is New York you should know
better this is a theater community I'm sorry he can't speak to you right now
no
[Applause]
I don't care how important this patients are
okay go to commercial I gotta take a walk
he'll be right back with Jim Carrey [Music]
now
I was talking to the audience about this uh movie earlier and it's helped me out
here it's uh it's people have their memories yeah I mean Sunshine is about you know loss
of love it's about being uh made invisible uh there are many people in here I'm sure
that share the experience with me when you realize that they've gotten over you
and uh and that's basically what the movie is about in a
figurative way it's my girlfriend is kind of compulsive and she played by
Kate Winslet brilliantly by the way what a wonderful person yeah
and uh so she goes out and erases my memory and I find out about it and so I go back to
do the same but halfway through the process it works in Reverse inside my head so halfway
through the process we get to the good memories the reasons why we loved each other and uh and
then I spend the rest of the movie trying to save whatever's left of her memory now the
the man who directed this film is Michelle gandry French yes he's very French it was
during what do you mean very French there's french and then there's very French you know
I mean he's like you know it's like you know uh don't say anything bad about the grape uh
how is the grape no um you uh you just have to really try hard to understand what he's
saying it was very difficult you know but he was such an innovator so interesting
all the special effects were done in camera which means the uh like I would run around
the camera and change my clothes if I'm in two two places at the same time in a scene
and it was just Madness I was constantly arguing with him I can't do it it can't
be done I can't physically do that back and forth three times and he would say [Laughter]
extremely French you know yeah with an attitude like that there would never be a hot air balloon
and then you must get in the balloon and fly and there's not a hot air balloon in
the film though no no but the French created that's exactly right right back to their core
um now um let's just talk about this for uh for a moment I'm stuck here hold on I'm sorry
if if uh if we did have the technology by which a person's memory could be erased and
I guess it could be done I guess it's some version of a like electroshock name again
are there things about your life that you would like to remove from me there's
a couple of dates I wouldn't erase but I would definitely put them on the five
minute delay you know what I mean because you say stuff you want to take back all the
time yeah you know constantly but uh I had one date and you do things too I I have the
Eugene Factor working for me all the time reminding me to not get too serious uh and
that is uh you know I I put my date in the passenger seat of the wrong truck [Laughter]
that I uh I had a beautiful day we had a wonderful time and it was going really swimmingly and uh
and then I got out on the sidewalk and I get nervous on the sidewalk because people are
looking at me photographers whatever is going on a lot of people waiting for their cars and
and I just saw a white vehicle come up you know in the thing and I'm being cool hey like that
I'm gonna give him a 20 by the way uh and uh and I get her in the car slam the door walk
around the car to the other side and there's a woman getting in the the driver's side of my car
and I said why are you getting into my truck and she said why is this woman in my truck
and and then the valet turned to me and said this
is not your truck sir you know and uh everybody's French now
your truck garage
no um so he told me it wasn't my truck and I walked around the side again in slow motion right
I'm going to show her I'm an idiot and I opened the door and let her out of the stranger's truck
and stood on the on the sidewalk for the rest of the time with people snickering
yeah behind me and stuff and I didn't even think about it I thought to myself later
on I'm rich man I could have just bought the stupid truck right there that's right
he's gonna bought the truck there you go be embarrassed by those types of things
crazy I tell you what when we come back we're going to take a look at a little bit of
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless and then you'll see that's right well Jim Carrey now we want to um
I don't want to show a little clip of the the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind yes it opens
on Friday yeah it's interesting it's different it's really fascinating it's so original it really
is it's Charlie Kaufman who's completely insanely original and uh by the way you know everybody has
such reverence for his scripts that there was like a line I didn't understand so I called Michelle
and I tried to get the explanation from him and he just went and I went okay I'll call Charlie and
I called Charlie and I said this line I want to make sure it's you know it goes well it's
right whatever I gave him the line he said I don't know just take it out just take it out take it out
reverence for nothing I was like I don't remember what I was thinking I think I was drunk and I
think I was drunk but anyway so this you know this this clip I want to set it up properly
yes please because is John back there John uh uh John's gonna come out and help me out who is John
by the way well John is uh gonna do a little uh thing with my hair he's with the show with
the show don't you know him he's been here for 20 years for God's sake Dave uh go through the office
everyone that's all right I will okay so what he's going to help me out by shaving a little portion
of my head what uh he's just gonna shave a tiny bit of hair off here just just to make the the
the demonstration goes smoothly see it's such a different film you know that I really wanted to
give it a a different kind of platform uh it's kind of a heady project you know and
uh yeah thanks and uh so thanks John thank you very much John good to see you again now
this clip clip is uh is a clip about uh let me let me get ready here um okay this clip
is uh and feel free to move my head if I'm not in the right place all right are you
are you were you in the AV club because I guess that's where this all comes from I
was part of the AV club anyway so the clip is a memory uh in the movie that
is being erased an unpleasant memory that Joel's having that's being erased
there
you want to go
talk about it later no I want to have a baby I don't think we're ready
you're not ready well do you really think you could take care of a kid
we're gonna talk about it you can't just say something like
that and say you don't want to talk about it I'd make a good mother
wow the whole movie takes place inside my head so I figured the weird thing is that
that my head they found out is the perfect aspect ratio for this film that's why I'm and let me ask
you something do you think shaving your head was worth it walking around walking around like that
now is gonna be okay I guess he'll be funny me in the hotel room tonight just watching it going
I Gotta Laugh though right and guys it's fine Gotta Laugh though
well um thanks again Jim for uh making the effort to be here we always no problem Dave
anytime I can come here and self-mutilate I do appreciate that uh the film opens on Friday
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Jim Carrey ladies and gentlemen thank you very much
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