On Saturday, Jim Carrey announced that his Saturday Night Live tenure as Joe Biden had come to an abrupt end. “Though my term was only meant to be 6 weeks, I was thrilled to be elected as your SNL President… comedy’s highest call of duty,” he wrote on Twitter. “I would love to go forward knowing that Biden was the victor because I nailed that shit. But I am just one in a long line of proud, fighting SNL Bidens!”
With all due respect to Carrey, one of the most talented physical comedians ever, his manic energy was never right for the sedate, slightly creepy Biden. This wasn’t a job for Fire Marshall Bill but Maverick—a cocksure, grinning-and-winking fella in aviator shades prone to the occasional tone-deaf outburst, or weird anecdote, or too-close-for-comfort embrace. The actor who donned the shades prior to Carrey, Jason Sudeikis, did a fine job capturing the all-American car salesman-y essence of Biden, a guy whose Twitter bio reads: “Loves ice cream, aviators & @amtrak.” (That set of big, impossibly white chompers was a nice touch.)
It was also a bit odd to see Carrey play the pro-science foil to Alec Baldwin’s COVID-ignoring Trump given the fact that he is Hollywood’s biggest anti-vaxxer. As I wrote in October, “To see Carrey cosplay as a paragon of medical responsibility, even uttering the words, ‘I believe in science,’ struck a discordant note, to say the least.” With health professionals around the globe administering doses of the COVID vaccine, it would be even more jarring to have Carrey embodying the man tasked with cleaning up Trump’s pandemic mess.
Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here
https://ift.tt/3aoG9GF from The Daily Beast Latest Articles https://ift.tt/3atWjyj
0 Comments