Comedian and actor Jim Carrey got his start doing impressions – wild facial expressions and bizarre physical movements trademarks of his early comedy – before snagging a role on the sketch comedy show In Living Color in the early 90s, and emerging into stardom with over-the-top and darkly funny characters in Ace Ventura, The Cable Guy, Dumb and Dumber, and many more. Carrey shifted into more serious, and often all-consuming roles in The Truman Show, Man on the Moon, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, before withdrawing from the spotlight to focus on visual art. After the 2016 election, Carrey turned his creative attention to political cartoons. Memoirs and Misinformation is a semi-autobiographical novel co-authored with Dana Vachon. Vachon is the author of the novel Mergers and Acquisitions. His essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and Vanity Fair. He lives in Brooklyn.
Co-written with novelist Dana Vachon, “Memoirs and Misinformation” makes for a simultaneously baffling and mesmerizing examination of Carrey’s psyche. The Carrey we meet — a fictionalized version. NEW YORK — When Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon handed in the book they had toiled on for eight years — a satirical “anti-memoir” about Carrey’s life but with increasingly extreme flights of. Memoirs and Misinformation, co-written with Mergers and Acquisitions author Dana Vachon, is a Hollywood-set satire about an actor called Jim Carrey whose fictional career closely mirrors that of. Nevertheless, Jim Carrey remains one of the funniest comedians out there today, and his devoted fanbase certainly can't wait for his upcoming novel, which he will co-write with Dana Vachon.
Each ticket comes with a copy of Carrey’s new book: Memoirs and Misinformation
AN EVENING WITH JIM CARREY & DANA VACHON discussing Memoirs and Misinformation (Alfred A. Knopf, $27.95) To be Introduced by: JUDY BLUME Moderated by: MITCHELL KAPLAN Thursday, July 9, 9pmEST Via Zoom Each ticket includes a copy of the book with a bookplate signed by Jim Carrey.
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Photo: Jim Carrey & Dana Vachon