![]() Veasey recognized it immediately: years before, Carrey had aspirationally written it out to himself for several million dollars a sort of visualization, done in the hope that putting a physical manifestation of his dream into the world would make it come true. “And I’m like, ‘Jim, just say it.’” At that point, he stood up and pulled a weathered personal check out of his wallet. “I’m thinking, ‘What?’” she recalls after the Wayans incident, she couldn’t take any more bad news. Veasey was petrified that Carrey was going to walk into her office that day and tell her that he too was quitting. But the year before, after objecting to Fox’s meddling, ILC creator Keenen Ivory Wayans had left his own show, leaving it in a state of uncertainty. ![]() “I need to talk to you,” Jim Carrey said somberly.īy then, Carrey had spent four-plus seasons blowing audiences away with his uncanny celebrity impressions (Robin Williams, Jay Leno, even Cher) and zany original characters (Fire Marshall Bill). It was early 1994, and, in the midst of trying to shepherd In Living Color through its tumultuous final stretch, the sketch show’s executive producer got a phone call. Pam Veasey thought that something was seriously wrong. Welcome to Part 2 of Comedy in the ’90s, our six-part series documenting this decade-defining boom in all of its sophomoric glory. What followed was a true golden age of Hollywood comedy that saw the arrival of megastars still with us today, a commercial explosion, and then, an eventual splintering that changed the genre forever. Nearly 30 years ago, a handful of smart people set out with one mission: to make some silly movies.
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