It’s immediately clear that Daniels is pleased to see Carrey, and over the next six minutes, they switch off between giving each other a hard time (Carrey tells Daniels that The Looming Tower sounds funny) and reminiscing about old times, from their first collaboration together on Dumb and Dumber to when they reprised Harry and Lloyd a few years back in Dumb and Dumber To.
At first, Conan O’Brien mentioning Dumb and Dumber to Jeff Daniels doesn’t seem like anything special, since it is one of the actor’s more popular movies.
But as we soon learn, the host was just using it as pretense for Jim Carrey to enter the studio.
But there wasn’t just fun to be had between Carrey and Daniels, as Carrey also talked about how he and O’Brien now live in the same neighborhood, but they haven’t spent that much time together, with Carrey only seeing a pompadour go past the top of his fence every so often like a shark fin in the water.
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