Here's our questions.
-Jim has not seen these. -Okay.
First one. "Would you ever do an hour stand-up special?"
Like Chappelle or Eddie Murphy might do?
-Anything's possible. You know, I mean, honestly, I... -Yeah.
(applause and cheering)
Like, shows... shows like yours are honestly a chance
for me to have the contact,
-that-that feeling of like a club, you know? -Yeah.
Just, there is something about that that is,
you know, just part of your... in your blood, you know, to...
'Cause that's what got you here.
-Yeah, that's how you got started. -So, and I...
-(applause and cheering) -Do you ever...? -I do...
I-I am able to come up with material,
-whether it's good or not... -Sure.
...at a furious pace if I...
if I get... go into one of my fugue states.
-(laughter) -So... -Right, but you don't...
-you don't go into clubs and do sets still? -No, no, no.
-Okay. -I haven't in a long time.
But if you did, that's a problem
I would think with Eddie, too,
is that if Eddie Murphy goes in, I think they do not...
-♪ Viral! ♪ -What's that?
-It goes viral. I mean sort of... -Yeah.
They got to put the phones in the... in the bags.
They put phones in Ziplocs now,
which they do that at clubs, which does help.
Okay. "As you mature, does your humor change?"
Oh, gosh. I don't know.
I think, uh... I think absolutely it does.
-Uh, I think it gets sharper. -Yeah.
You know, I don't know how you feel about it,
-but I feel like... -I would say,
I would think I'm better now, but I don't know.
But I think you know more, and knowledge, uh,
and experience come into all the jokes
and how you think and how you write,
so I think... I would think, I-I'm...
-It's different now, but... -Yeah.
-Basically the same. It's mostly the same. -(laughter)
-And-and... and I... -I have one note.
And the great thing is, I keep forgetting
that I did a joke already, and I can do it a hundred times.
That's right, 'cause...
-It's a different show every time. -Okay.
-Lapses in memory are really beneficial. -(laughter)
Uh, I don't think you do impressions anymore.
Any new face impressions of other celebrities, but...
-New faces? No. -New people.
I haven't done... I haven't done face...
I haven't done that kind of thing...
Was Clint Eastwood the last one?
No, I mean, probably, uh, the last time I ever
did an impression in public was when I went to Russia
-and I went to Lenin's Tomb, and, uh, and... -Fun crowd.
The-the soldiers... the soldiers there--
I felt like they needed a good laugh.
(laughter)
So, since I couldn't speak the language,
I did my Leonid Brezhnev for them.
(laughter)
(applause and cheering)
I'm amazed any of you know what that is.
I know. It's funny.
Yeah, you just picture the tanks rolling by.
Yeah, I'm sure they-they get... they really get...
They got a hoot out of it. They loved it.
Yeah, they don't get a lot of stand-ups over there.
-(laughter) -Yeah. Yeah. -Yeah, okay.
You have a novel coming out. What's it about?
Uh, I have a novel called Jim Carrey
-Memoirs and Misinformation. -Look at this.
(applause and cheering)
That I wrote with my friend Dana Vachon.
It took us eight years to write it.
And it is an absurdist, uh, uh,
treatment of my life and persona and fame.
And, uh, it is, uh...
-it is designed to end the world for you. -Great.
-(laughter) -If-if only for a moment.
If only for a moment,
because I think deep down inside all of us,
all we really seek... is our own absence.
(laughter, applause and cheering)
Thinker.
-If you... -And it's funny.
If you got on SNL, would things be different for you?
I did audition for SNL.
I don't know if you've heard the story, but I... but I...
I got out at NBC in the Valley, and they, uh...
And I was like, "Gosh, I hope this is a lucky day for me."
I walked out of my car, I closed the door,
and I heard, "Don't do it!
Don't jump!" Like that.
And I looked up at the top of NBC building,
-and there was a page... -Shut the (bleep) up.
...in a blue coat, trying to get his nerve up,
standing on the NBC logo, trying to get his nerve up to jump off.
And I went, "Not a good sign."
(laughter)
"Not a good sign." Yeah.
But, uh, yeah, so Lorne and I still have a running thing
where he's like, uh, "Oh, it was... it was Franken."
-(laughter) -Well...
-"Franken put the kibosh on you." -Yeah.
He didn't like me, either.
-All right, um... -(laughter)
-That's true. Um... -(applause and cheering)
-You do political and non-political art, right? -Yes.
-I-I... -Yeah, you do both, 'cause I saw one
-of a squirrel with a knife. -(laughter)
-Yeah. Yeah. -(laughter)
That's the Mango Series. The Mango Series.
It's all about mangoes--
the sweetest fruit, the fruit of the gods. But you know,
if a squirrel takes your mango in New York City,
you just got to buy another one, you know?
'Cause it's not worth it. Just not worth it.
-This squirrel started some shit with me once. -He did?
Yeah, near the Beverly Center. I'll tell you in a minute.