The youngest of four children born to Percy (an accountant and aspiring jazz saxophonist) and Kathleen, Jim Carrey was an incurable extrovert from day one. As a child he performed constantly, for anyone who would watch, and even mailed his résumé to "The Carol Burnett Show" (1967) at age 10. In junior high he was granted a few precious minutes at the end of each school day to do stand-up routines for his classmates (provided, of course, that he kept a lid on it the rest of the day).Carrey's early - www.imdb.com

Actor, comedian. Born James Eugene Carrey, on January 17, 1962, in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. Carrey got his start with a spot doing stand-up at a Toronto comedy clubwhen he was just 15 years old. By 1979, he had left the factory janitorjob he had taken in 1978 to help support his family and was making hisliving as opening act for successful comics Buddy Hackett and RodneyDangerfield.At 19, Carrey headed west to Hollywood where, in 1983,he started with a made-for-television movie called Introducing...Janet - www.biography.com

Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) was in a funk trying to get his life back together after his girlfriend Robin (Leslie Mann) asked him to move out when he wanted more from their relationship. As Steven is trying to get his new apartment set up he meets The Cable Guy (Jim Carrey) in what is anything but a routine cable installation. The Cable Guy, who we learn is Chip Douglass, invites Steven to check out the satellites with him the following day and the awkward friendship is born. Steven starts seeing Chip - factoidz.com