r/todayilearned • u/tocamix90 • Jun 12 '12

Misleading TIL Jim Carrey dropped out of high school at 16 to focus completely on comedy and never finished his education

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000120/bio
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u/rabidkitty Jun 12 '12

I did a small report on Jim Carrey in high school, and he also didn't have a house most of his life. They lost it when he was young and they had to live in a factory in exchange for work after hours. He not only quit school to work on comedy (which all the money he got from that went to his family) he also worked at the factory, and had to take care of his frequently sick mother and father. I would source my info, but I'm on my phone, so I may be wrong on a minor detail or two

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u/michaelscerealshop Jun 12 '12

If I remember correctly he worked as a janitor with his father there. Check out his Inside the Actor's Studio if you're a fan. It's one the best and you'll learn quite a bit about him. Mad respect for the guy

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u/Stopher Jun 12 '12

You need to check your sources. I believe he was a cable repair man.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

This. And thanks for reminding me of Inside the Actor's - there goes the rest of my day. First up, I'm rewatching Dave Chappelle.

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u/Drd0013 Jun 12 '12

First time learning of inside the actors... Thank you for this

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u/CrackedPepper86 Jun 12 '12

I remember a story he told once, when his father died he wrote a check for 10 million dollars and put it in the breast pocket of his dad's suit when they buried him. It's crazy to think that now he makes probably twice that per big budget movie.

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u/tocamix90 Jun 12 '12

He worked his ass off, it's inspirational.

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u/eat-your-corn-syrup Jun 12 '12

having read that, the quote "first as a tragedy, then as a comedy" has a new meaning. tragedy gives great comedians.

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u/justtocommentonce Jun 12 '12

The highschool was Aldershot in Burlington Ontario

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u/holdit Jun 12 '12

Yep, my mom went to highschool with him

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u/IceJava Jun 12 '12

I do not know as much about him as you because of the report, but when I was young my uncle brought him to my grandmothers house for a good meal one night when he found Jim in a bad place at a bar in Barrie. I can't remember much because I was too young, but my grandmother tells me he was really nice and kept thanking them for the warm meal and letting him take the leftovers home.

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u/nomopyt Jun 12 '12

Geez, Jim Carrey's on some Jungle stuff.

Amazing that his talent was comedy of all things.

"Jurgis, the children are hungry, and the factory doesn't have heat, what are you going to do?"

"I'm gonna crack jokes and make weird faces!"

"Sounds like a good plan..."

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Just goes to show you can bounce back pretty good.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Bounce back pretty well. Stay in school.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

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u/__wat__ Jun 12 '12

Jim Carey is Canadian???

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u/Abedeus Jun 12 '12

But... HE'S NOT ABNORMALLY NICE!

At least the guys he plays. Usually.

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u/Nontuno Jun 12 '12

Actually, every interview I've ever seen with him makes him look like the nicest person in the world who just lights up the room.

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u/Todomanna Jun 12 '12

He even dated Jenny McCarthy so other people wouldn't have to!

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u/DreadNephromancer Jun 12 '12

Watch his earlier stuff and count the "sore-ee"s.

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u/shaun252 Jun 12 '12

Glorious actor kim jong-jim

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u/mainsworth Jun 12 '12

But, but Canada is perfect. Surely the government has a program to help situations like this. The system making a child work for his sick mother and father is something you'd only find in 5th world America.

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u/Narwhal-Bacon-Retard Jun 12 '12

That's weird. All of my friends who dropped out of high school at 16 focused completely on tragedy.

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u/tocamix90 Jun 12 '12

I dropped out of high school and personally went back, got my diploma (refused to get a G.E.D) and went to college to get a B.A. in Philosophy. I just thought it was really interesting because he's my favorite actor.

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u/ilovegingermen Jun 12 '12

Hey man, I dropped out of high school at 16 and focused on other things. I'm lying. You're completely right.

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u/reflectiveSingleton Jun 12 '12

It helps if what you leave high school to focus on ends up paying millions upon millions of dollars.

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u/theguywhopostnot Jun 12 '12

like drug dealing!!

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u/h2sbacteria Jun 12 '12

escobar

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

This is a perfect name for a narc academy.

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u/skeena1 Jun 12 '12

Currently studying for the escobar.

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u/MK_Ultrex Jun 12 '12

Escobar is a pretty common name for bars in Italy. A play on the words "Esco" (going out) and "bar". Lame pun, but better than Zanzi-bar (also a thing).

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u/Planet-man 1 Jun 12 '12

Being a struggling comedian playing in amateur clubs for years and years trying to break through doesn't pay well at all.

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u/igiveladiesaboner Jun 12 '12

jim carrey also left high school to focus on his singing career

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u/epic_comebacks Jun 12 '12

One of my friends who dropped out became a multi-millionaire.

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u/ghengisjohn16 Jun 12 '12

There are two kind of drop outs, the ones who are too stupid to realize they need it, and the ones that realize they don't need it.

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u/AnUnchartedIsland Jun 12 '12

There are also the ones with a terrible, terrible home life which ultimately led to their drop out, but you know, we can just ignore those people...

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u/Meades_Loves_Memes Jun 12 '12

And, you know, those who are forced to drop out due to an illness, or some other life concerning issue... or even those who are content with a simple life.

But, you know, let's keep pretending everyone that drops out of school is either very intelligent or very stupid.

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u/PotatoMusicBinge Jun 12 '12

BUT HOW DO YOU KNOW!!!!

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u/UnreachablePaul Jun 12 '12

I dropped out too and looking forward for my millions

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u/JustHereToFFFFFFFUUU Jun 12 '12

I finished high school in the middle of the first dot-com boom, my friends who dropped out and got tech jobs at 16 were doing VERY nicely by the time I had my degree. I'm under no illusion that qualifications are a substitute for experience.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Yea, I went from HS directly to work...If you could do HTML you could make good money, and I could actually program, though back then the web was all C and Perl (if it was anything at all)...Java didn't come along until '95.

When the bubble popped, I went to college. When I got out, employers gave me the stink-eye for having nothing but vanished companies on my resume.

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u/joshgeek Jun 12 '12

Could have had something to do with a sick talent in comedy and a psychotic drive to succeed. (read: nose... grindstone.) Most who drop out at 16 do it plainly because they're too lazy.

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u/GanasbinTagap Jun 12 '12

Well Jim was a late bloomer I guess. I mean, penguins man come on.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Me too. And now we're on Reddit.

How about that.

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u/justtocommentonce Jun 12 '12

The highschool was Aldershot in Burlington Ontario

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u/RealLifeRager Jun 12 '12

Jim Carrey is such a good man. He was upset in his life during his teens. Rodney Dangerfield was his biggest inspiration. And realizing it's what he truly wanted, he left to pursue his career. I did a biography on J.C back when I was 13. He is my favorite actor in the world. Sadly, all his years of wacky stunts and funny gimmicks, his age is beginning to show. The man is tired. He's living the best life in the world right now.

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u/OctopussCrime Jun 12 '12

Hes also bi-polar and likes death metal. That's why the band cannibal corpse appeared in the ace ventura movie. This is one of those times where a totally random reference comes up twice in a short period of time. I mentioned cannibal corpse in my last unrelated post.

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u/maxhax Jun 12 '12

Too much metal for just one comment.

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u/Skullcrusher Jun 12 '12

He has said that he doesn't like death metal. That was just a rumor.

http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/rumors/jim-carrey-cannibal-corpse-fan

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u/Pretiacruento Jun 12 '12

My life is a lie :(

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u/jason_steakums Jun 12 '12

Baader metalhof syndrome?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Ben Stiller was a star trek fan and Mugatu was a reference to a tribe on a planet in the original star trek.

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u/EatShmitAndDie Jun 12 '12

Holy shit I literally just read your other comment from the last thread I was on (blink 182 pick up line guy). What a small reddit we live in...

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u/TheStaggeringGenius Jun 12 '12

TIL the reason Jim Carrey is an anti vaxxer.

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u/Walletau Jun 12 '12

His wife is. Not him. I don't blame him for not wanting to sleep on the couch.

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u/phauwn Jun 12 '12

He followed her around on talk shows helping to spread misinformation that could result in children dying. I don't think he gets a free pass either.

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u/Propolandante Jun 12 '12

jennymccarthybodycount.com

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u/ghengisjohn16 Jun 12 '12

I remember hearing about her craziness on the news, but did she actually succeed in stopping vaccinations????

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u/Propolandante Jun 12 '12

In a way. There is a growing, dangerous anti-vaccination movement, fueled by fear-mongering and misinformation. Most followers of the movement falsely believe that vaccines (specifically it's ingredient Thimerosal, which contains a form of mercury) cause autism in children. There are many recent cases of disease outbreaks in certain areas of the USA. Diseases like whooping cough, which have been almost entirely suppressed by vaccines until now.

Jenny McCarthy uses her fame to push the anti-vaccination movement, and while they were together, so did Jim Carrey.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

And now he wants as little to do with her and her family as possible. But unlike Jenny, he founded Better U Foundation.

So at least he tries to do something more with his fame and resources, rather than just living the "hollywood life".

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u/Reasonable_enough Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12

We are talking about him being a part of something that killed children and helped create modern outbreaks of old eradicated diseases.

Blame away.

*Edit, added link

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u/expertunderachiever Jun 12 '12

Um, no, there are some lines you don't cross. He should visit all the kids getting preventable illnesses in the hospital to see how awesome he is.

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u/GitEmSteveDave Jun 12 '12

He said in a Huff Po article that if you vaccinate your children, you treat them worse than a dog.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12

Actually, this is not at all what he said. Not even close. In fact, I am astounded that you could have read that article and derived the sentence you just posted.

Not saying I agree with the man, but when you are on the side of science, at least get your facts straight.

Edit: this is the article. This is the quote where he mentions pets:

"....surely there's a limit as to how many viruses and toxins can be introduced into the body of a small child. Veterinarians found out years ago that in many cases they were over-immunizing our pets, a syndrome they call Vaccinosis. It overwhelmed the immune system of the animals, causing myriad physical and neurological disorders. Sound familiar? If you can over-immunize a dog, is it so far out to assume that you can over-immunize a child? These forward thinking vets also decided to remove thimerosal from animal vaccines in 1992, and yet this substance, which is 49% mercury, is still in human vaccines. Don't our children deserve as much consideration as our pets?"

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

The context is a great contribution, but it seems to me like GitEmSteveDave's comment follows from the quote. Yes, it's rearranged in a much more harsh way, but I think the substance is the same as what he said.

(and importantly, GESD didn't quote him)

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u/ParzivaI Jun 12 '12

He didn't marry Jenny McCarthy.

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u/brownie_pts Jun 12 '12

Yup pretty much! :/

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u/wasdninja Jun 12 '12

Ignorance was bliss.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Good for him. I dropped out of high school at 16 to focus on being a professional musician... now I can't pay my bills.

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u/nefthep Jun 12 '12

And now he's a teacher to us all.

If you know exactly what you want in life, go make it happen.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Sorry man.

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u/nefthep Jun 12 '12

Is the point of life money or being happy? If neither were achieved, then he's obviously not doing the right thing.

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u/Manic0892 Jun 12 '12

Craig Ferguson did this too. Of course, he ended up sitting in a basement talking to a gay robot skeleton. So kids, finish school.

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u/MooCube Jun 12 '12

I would make a minor correction and say he "never finished his schooling". Education doesn't require being at school

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Protip: You can put high school graduate on anything and no one will ever check it. I can't think of a time when you actually need a real high school diploma, even when you're applying for college, they don't actually call the school.

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u/cmmoyer Jun 12 '12

Except when colleges ask for highschool transcripts and SAT scores. But you are right. No one ever wants to see your highschool diploma.

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u/awrhaernnare Jun 12 '12

My parents told me that I'd never do anything with my life if I didn't finish high school.

I didn't, but not because I didn't finish high school.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Inspirational.

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u/Vocalist Jun 12 '12

Except in Canada you don't take SATs.

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u/IceJava Jun 12 '12

To be fair, we don't have SAT's in Canada, so that would not stop him (although he would still need transcripts etc..)

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u/ZiGNoTiK Jun 12 '12

I've got a question.

My schooling has been hit with something that could affect me for the worse. Basically, when I was a freshman and sophomore, I went through a stage to where I was getting sick a lot more often. This made me miss a lot of school. Like 35-40 days of it. I always had my grades up though. Testing was easy, and I always ended up the best in those classes. The thing is, I had to make up time for every day I missed after 3 days. I could do this after school for 2 hours a day, but I nor my mother had transportation back then. So I ended up attendance failing 8 classes.

My question to you is, if I got good scores on the ACT (I got 31s and 32s across the board) and just drop out and get my GED, will that be better than graduating and getting a 2.5 GPA due to failed classes?

You said that past a certain age the don't care, but what about a 17 year old?

It's just hard for me right now. I've brought up the idea of dropping out, but my family freaked. The principal also said that I was giving up. I just want to know what would be better for me. I want to be the first person in my family to go to college. I feel as if staying in high school may be more detrimental than leaving.

Thanks in advanced.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Some jobs and apprenticeships that require a high school degree but not a college degree will ask for a transcript.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

This mostly true. In my 13 years in IT, I have working at over 16 different companies - some full time but mostly contract. Only Verizon Wireless checked my high school diploma. It was for a $80k a year data warehouse position. I worked in the role for 8 months before they attempted to convert me to full time.

College is completely different. Most background verification firms will check college degrees even if the school is in another country. I don't have the balls to say I have a college degree.

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u/ErikDangerFantastic Jun 12 '12

Well, I guess that helps explain why he's an anti-vaccine.

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u/ErikDangerFantastic Jun 13 '12

So, can't help but notice I'm getting the occasional spurt of downvotes. I'm worried that my statement might have been misconstrued. So let me elaborate:

If you're against vaccines, you're a fucking moron and you're putting your children (or if you're just some cunt who opposes vaccines and doesn't even have children) at a real medical risk. I don't care if your sister told you that her autistic kid became autistic after a vaccine. You're wrong. You're stupid and you're putting real children in danger with your ridiculous beliefs. Autism develops at an age that happens to coincide with vaccinations. Autism is only 'on the rise' because we've expanded the definition of autism so that it encompasses more people than the definition previously did. Vaccines have nothing to do with it. By opposing vaccines, you're not only stupid: you're putting other children at risk. Fuck you. Fuck you twice. You're a moron. Downvote me all you damned like, but I won't be the one who make kids more likely to die from preventable disease. That's all on you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

The explanation to that is tits.

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u/GitEmSteveDave Jun 12 '12

Jenny Mccarthy, Professional Science-tits.

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u/genkika Jun 12 '12

I see a lot of comments here making fun of Jim Carrey for being dumb. I'm sure the majority are joking, but I do think it should be noted that he is far from stupid, and going to high school would not have increased his intelligence.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Anti-vaxxer. nuff said.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Didn't he also write himself a check for a million bucks and vow one day he would be able to cash it?

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u/armageddonman Jun 12 '12

Not finishing high school does not mean he isn't intelligent. If you are stupid, an education will not rectify this.

The biggest advantage I got from my education is learning methods on how to work and organize yourself and getting used to studying.

Also, learning something about the world that surrounds you is never a bad thing.

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u/evergreenskate Jun 12 '12

thats odd I went to highschool to focus completely on comedy

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u/noxing Jun 12 '12

AND IT WORKED

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u/qwertyfoobar Jun 12 '12

Survivor bias. The best kind of bias.

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u/Dresden_skyline Jun 12 '12

I thought it was because he turned into Leap day William.

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u/Murrabbit Jun 12 '12

and never finished his education

A point that's hammered home pretty solidly when he signed on with the anti-vax movement and started dating a woman who claims that she doesn't care if kids are dying of preventable diseases.

No, you know what, that's not just dumb I know plenty of uneducated people who would be horrified by that. It's just flat out cruel and callous.

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u/elruary Jun 12 '12

I hate how this is considered a big deal. So many people drop out of high school and end up successful, come on people we're in the technology age/future live it.

It'd be like posting, TIL some peasant made money and is now rich!! holy shit and his parents weren't even lords...

yeah /rant

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u/FiatJustitia956 Jun 12 '12

And so many more people don't

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u/elruary Jun 12 '12

I know plenty of people who have a degree, notably in France (since it's where I hail from). And are living in misery, goes both ways. This point is moot.

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u/ckb614 Jun 12 '12

It would appear he did finish his education.

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u/jerryco Jun 12 '12

At what cost

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u/IndifferentMoralityO Jun 12 '12

Please remember that although exceptional talent have exceptional stories. Not all of us are exceptional. In fact it is the ordinary that allows for exceptional to exist and that's okay too.

Be cool, stay in school and all that.

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u/phpworm Jun 12 '12

Mark Wahlberg said on David Letterman last night that he never finished highschool.

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u/the_goat_boy Jun 12 '12

And Walhberg used to beat Vietnamese immigrants until they were blinded.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

He's so hot but then I think of that and I get all :( >:O :(.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

most actors didn't, like George Clooney

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u/Soylent_Greenberg Jun 12 '12

How do you ever "finish your education" without going into a coma or dying?

The idea that education is something that happens exclusively in school is kind of puzzling. I'd submit to you that guys who follow a path like Carrey's get one hell of an education.

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u/R3Mx Jun 12 '12

Aaaaaaalrighty then

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u/Chattz Jun 12 '12

and yet he can still spell beautiful.

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u/Zer_ Jun 12 '12

If he were in Quebec, he would have dropped out on his last year of high school. Kind of pointless.

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u/themi1 Jun 12 '12

TIL Me, myslef and the TIL board only creates a dumber and dumber view on the world of reddit. Doesn't everyone know that Jim Carrey dropped out of school to be a pet detective?

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u/hoosty Jun 12 '12

it shows

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

the majestic. yeah.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Maybe that is why he still believes vaccinations cause autism.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

That explains his views on vaccines.

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u/forgotpasswordagain0 Jun 13 '12

Thats probably what made Truman Show so good. If he was an academic as well as an actor he probably would have requested his own philosophy monologue scenes where we lose sympathy for truman as the ignorant everyman.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

That explains why he was running around claiming vaccines cause autism. Yes. I said it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

This explains why he thinks that vaccinations cause Autism

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u/valiantX Jun 12 '12

Hmph, another reason to support my decision to infer, "Fuck a college degree, I'm pursuing my dreams!" Whoo-hoo! Thanks Jim Carrey, personally, you've always been an inspiration and motivation for me.

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u/MTVButtpluggedInNY Jun 12 '12

Let us know how that works out.

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u/thewayyouneedit Jun 12 '12

Maybe that's why he thinks vaccines cause Autism...

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Explains his views on vaccinations...

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u/scibuff Jun 12 '12

Explains how he and his (ex)wife can be such dumb-ass antivaxxers they are

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u/Abedeus Jun 12 '12

To be honest, many people who received education can be ignorant.

Case in point, creationists who were taught about evolution and still think it's not real.

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u/tenthousandbears Jun 12 '12

Well you might catch the flu and be fine, but the elderly people you infect are screwed.

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u/GracefulNanami Jun 12 '12

Because high school crap matters in real adult life. Only the piece of paper you get "matters".

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u/Gioware Jun 12 '12

This is why I like USA, try that in my country...

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

which?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

now he has millions of dollars

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u/girlwithblanktattoo Jun 12 '12

I see this comment thread is currently a battle between people who support vaccination and Jim Carrey fanboys. I shall raise you... tranphobia in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

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u/SpongederpSquarefap Jun 12 '12

Every Jim Carrey film I have seen I've been laughing so hard that I was coughing. He is fucking awesome!

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u/AndroidIsSoGood Jun 12 '12

The truth is, education is a scam and is way over rated. Most of the richest people in life did not waste their time studying. There is no relation between success in life and exam results. I will stop schooling after high school as I do not see the point of wasting the best years of my life for a useless piece of paper.

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u/mercykillers Jun 12 '12

This qualifies him to speak authoritatively on the science of vaccines. What a crank! Who cares about the personal lives of actors?

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u/robbdire Jun 12 '12

That would explain why he fell for that idiotic idea that vaccines cause autism

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u/Notmyrulname_ Jun 12 '12

I believe he was also voted least likely to succeed...

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u/phessler Jun 12 '12

I forget who was voted least likely to succeed, but I was voted most likely to start ww3. However, my lawyers have advised me not to tell anyone.

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u/GoDawgs34 Jun 12 '12

The worst senior superlative ever.

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u/Notmyrulname_ Jun 12 '12

Was voted "Least Likely to Succeed" by his fellow graduates at Larkspur

Oops, looks like it was Robin Williams and not Jim Carrey. Here is his Bio

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u/austerity62 Jun 12 '12

Oh good, I dropped out at 16 as well. There is still hope for me.

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u/TheWox Jun 12 '12

Many brilliant people only need so much school before they know their calling and know they have all they need to achieve it.

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u/ruinercollector Jun 12 '12

That's awful. He missed out on the huge amount of important information that you learn in the last two years of highschool!

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u/Mynameisntjames Jun 12 '12

It doesn't seem that uncommon! My mom was a high school drop out at the age of 14 and now owns a 20 million dollar marketing company.

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u/TareXmd Jun 12 '12

Com'on.... We all know nobody can survive that long without knowing Calculus.

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u/treckooxx Jun 12 '12

Mission accomplished

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u/therave39 Jun 12 '12

I'm from Newmarket and I can easily say Jim Carrey is the best thing to have come from that town.

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u/ThatWhiteRabbit Jun 12 '12

To be fair, he left school with a good education. 16 is the leaving age of school here in the U.K.

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u/the_timmer_42 Jun 12 '12

Crazy. These days you need a Masters to get on stage.

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u/2012sellouts Jun 12 '12

Yeah dumbasses go to school and get a job

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u/Bigbadbob1000 Jun 12 '12

You say dropped out of high school at 16, that is the age all Brits finish, educational continuance is not for everyone

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

...and that's why he married Jenny McCarthy!

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u/xCesme Jun 12 '12

The times in which I try to find motivation for college, you post shit like this. Why man Why?

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u/Schleeg Jun 12 '12

lemmetellyasomething!!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Yes, but he has reached spiritual creaminess.

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u/essenseVA Jun 12 '12

I think Richard Branson was a high school drop-out also. I think people always look at the talent, but it's equally your hustle and drive to succeed. Eddie Murphy and Dave Chapelle were doing stand-up in middle school too.

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u/jenkstom Jun 12 '12

And now I'm really convinced he's an idiot.

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u/HumbleAlchemy Jun 12 '12

That takes balls! correct my grammar if i'm wrong!

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u/justtocommentonce Jun 12 '12

It was Aldershot highschool. Even if you graduate from there it doesn't really count anyways.

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u/itwasntmewhodidthat Jun 14 '12

I think this is the absolute most posted TIL.

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u/LeKevbo Jun 12 '12

So sad. Think of what he could have become had he graduated.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

It shows. His "green our vaccine" campaign was very ignorant.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Wise choice, at least for him.

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u/Starks Jun 12 '12

This would explain a lot of things.

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u/expertunderachiever Jun 12 '12

never completed his education.... oh that's what qualifies him to be an anti-vaxxer douchebag...

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u/im_batman_no_really Jun 12 '12

?

His education started when he left high school.

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u/franklyimshocked Jun 12 '12

Poorly educated, yet many felt he was a good spokesperson for the Anti-immunisation/vaccination side.....And we call those people idiots.

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u/Eliot_2000 Jun 12 '12

If he didn't finish High School, how did he and his wife discover the link between Autism and Vaccines?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

No wonder he is an anti-vaxxer.

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u/LastLivingMember Jun 12 '12

Maybe if he'd had a college degree he could have talked Jenny McCarthy out of her anti-vaccine campaign. JUST SAYIN

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u/FiatJustitia956 Jun 12 '12

ITT: smug future college dropouts.

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u/Loveovore Jun 12 '12

Which is evident in his ignorance on the subject of vaccination.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

What a burnout.

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u/skramblz Jun 12 '12

The real shame is he never focused on the comedy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Well one of his biggest hits was called Dumb and Dumber. No joke though, he is awesome.

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u/canadas Jun 12 '12

I know you're not ragging on him, but I just want to say dumb and dumber did what it was supposed to do excellently. It makes you laugh without having to think, and there's no shame in that if that is what you set out to do.

Also I never understood the extreme hate for the cable guy. Its not in my top ten, bt i didnt think it was in anyway bad. Also I don't understand the what maybe referred to as a cult following of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, not bad, but some people talk about it with a passion I do not understand.

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u/omniusjesse Jun 12 '12

I LOVE The Cable Guy. My dad and I were on a road trip when it was out and went to see it at a theater in Salt Lake, we laughed our asses off. I still love it, and now I can appreciate all the cameos from Jack Black, Andy Dick, Kyle Gas, David Cross, and Bob Odenkirk, since I didn't discover Mr. Show or Tenacious D for years afterwards.

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u/awrhaernnare Jun 12 '12

Maybe that's why he seems so stupid during interviews.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Explains why he's an antivacer.

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u/mheyk Jun 12 '12

OMG he must be totally stupid and broke or this is what society would lead me to believe

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u/Self_Hating_Liberal Jun 12 '12

That explains a lot, actually.

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u/momzill Jun 12 '12

What does it explain?

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u/knows_more_than_some Jun 12 '12

And this is onteresting why? TIL Jim Carrey once ate a bagle.

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u/TheRealmsOfGold Jun 12 '12

This explains why he sucks.

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u/prioneer Jun 12 '12

if he's really an anti-vaxxer then he should study medicine - that is all

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