“A lot of people don’t know this but when I was about 14 or 15, my father lost his job and I actually became homeless for quite some time.”
“But of course, I grew up in Canada and I thought we’d gone camping,” he’s joked on stage.
We’ve long known Carrey as a successful comedian.
But his earliest days on the job were anything but easy.
In fact, during his first time on stage, things went pretty badly.
“I finally got offstage to huge applause just because I mentioned I was going to leave the stage.”
“Then I crawled through the audience on my hands and knees, popped up behind the piano and started banging on the keys, singing, ‘I hate you all, you gave me cancer.’”
“I got in the car and I cried all the way home,” he said, “Because I don’t want to make people unhappy.”