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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
It was described as a fascinating quasi-memoir that discussed the end of the world, and contained darkly humorous elements. It was said to be a book that Jim Carrey worked on for a long time.
You wrote a book that I really enjoyed. That's why I wrote you the letter that's framed and hangs behind you on the wall.
— Episode: Jim Carrey
Episode: Jim Carrey
It was described as a fascinating quasi-memoir that discussed the end of the world, and contained darkly humorous elements. It was said to be a book that Jim Carrey worked on for a long time.
You wrote a book that I really enjoyed. That's why I wrote you the letter that's framed and hangs behind you on the wall.
And what's fascinating about this is anyone thinks a celebrity memoir, they all think the same thing... It's not what anyone, that's actually what I might expect, but a lot of this is not a Jim Carrey memoir that anyone would expect in the normal sense.
And what I find amazing is that you must have been working on this for a long time. The writing, I think, is really quite good. And there's a lot of really funny and dark stuff in here.
It was like an eight year conversation that turned into a couple of years of intensive, you know, creative work. And we put our hearts and souls into it.
It's like you got to do a book on persona and transcending persona, you have to use some personas in the ultimate process Hollywood.