Jim Carrey is putting on the tool belt once more as Chip Douglas from "The Cable Guy." Verizon released a 10-second Super Bowl teaser of the actor suiting up and another of him pounding on a door as seen through a peephole, shouting, "Cable Guy!" as he did in the 1996 film.
Carrey posted a slowed-down video of the suit-up on Twitter with narration to hype the character's return. "Humanoids," Carrey begins with the Cable Guy's distinct lisp, "have long felt the need to escape the rigor of life through streaming content ... and it is I, only I, who possess the necessary skills to fulfill that need. It is ..." the actor pauses as he runs a drill with a dramatic expression before continuing: "my purpose."
"The Cable Guy" was not a runaway success like the cast, director Ben Stiller, and producer Judd Apatow thought it would be, as many people were taken aback by the strangeness of the titular character. In an interview with Charlie Rose in 2001, Carrey said, "Just to get that character on film is a triumph." The actor loves "comedic characters who try to act like they're in control, and even convince themselves that they're in control but they are completely and obviously not in control in any way." It is this delusional behavior that was once off-putting for moviegoers, but now contributes to the praise of "The Cable Guy" as a cult-classic. Check out the full commercial during Super Bowl LVI on February 13.
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