Carrey worked with Wayans Jr.’s father on the movie “Earth Girls Are Easy” and the sketch comedy series “In Living Color.”
Damon Wayans Jr.’s earliest memory of comedian Jim Carrey involved a kooky prank.
Wayans Jr. appeared on a recent episode of SiriusXM’s The Spotlight With Jessica Shaw alongside his dad, Damon Wayans, and shared the anecdote about Carrey, who starred opposite the elder Wayans on the 1988 sci-fi movie Earth Girls Are Easy and the ’90s sketch-comedy series In Living Color.
“There was one time we were coming home, at night coming home, and I think I was like 5, 6 years old, maybe 7, and we were waiting for the gate to open and Jim Carrey drops out of the tree onto the windshield of our car and slides down,” recalled Wayans Jr.. 41, with a laugh. “His face is just smeared down, so that’s why he was so funny ’cause he was just wild.”
The recollection came after Wayans Sr., 64, divulged that his children thought Carrey “was funnier than me.” He called his former costar “a human cartoon.”
“It was so funny,” added his son of the prank. “That was one of my earliest memories of him.”
Asked Shaw, “And Damon, when that happened, are you like, ‘Yeah, it’s just my colleague Jim Carrey. No big deal’?”
Wayans Jr. quipped, “You turned on the windshield wiper.”
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Father and son are currently on the press circuit to promote their new CBS sitcom Poppa’s House, premiering tonight. Wayans Sr. stars as divorced and legendary talk radio host Poppa, whose point of view at work is challenged when the station hires a new female cohost (Essence Atkins). Art imitates life with Wayans Jr. in the role of his son Junior.
The two have worked together before: Wayans Sr. guest starred on his son’s Happy Endings and Happy Together, while Wayans Jr. has appeared on his father’s My Wife and Kids. “It’s wonderful to come to work every day and see him and some of his kids and my sister and my brother and nieces and nephews,” Wayans Sr. recently told ABC of working with his son and extended family. “They all work on this show. I don’t think there are words to express how joyful I am.”
