Warner Bros Cast Jim Carrey as Mark Zuckerberg and Didn’t Even Know It
Posted: April 13, 2018 Filed under: Investigations | Tags: Amazon, Batman, Batman and Robin, Batman Forever, congress, Eric Schmidt, facebook, google, Gotham, In Living Color, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Bezos, Jim Carrey, Johnny Carson, Los Angeles, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Keaton, microsoft, privacy, social media, The Riddler, Tim Burton Comments Off on Warner Bros Cast Jim Carrey as Mark Zuckerberg and Didn’t Even Know It
With all of the news stories being published in recent days about social media data and privacy, I cannot help but be reminded of a not-so-great, yet brilliantly prophetic, film of the 1990’s. Let me first set the table. I was twenty-four years old and had just moved to Los Angeles to become a stand-up comedian. Months earlier, when I was a busboy at a Jersey Shore bar, I was constantly barraged by drunks shouting “Fire Marshall Bill!” This was due to my uncanny resemblance to Jim Carrey, referencing his recurring character in the critically-acclaimed sketch comedy show of the time “In Living Color“. My resemblance to him was not the only connection. Ever since I saw Carrey impersonate the entire cast of “My Three Sons” on Johnny Carson in 1983, I was hooked. I wanted to be him. Read the rest of this entry »
