In 2018, Carrey revealed (via Vulture) that he experienced a bad omen prior to his SNL audition, stating 'I got out of the car in the parking lot, and there was a person trying to work up the guts to commit suicide on the building on NBC in Burbank, and I walked into the building not knowing whether he did it.' Carrey reportedly (via UPROXX) auditioned for SNL two more times for both the 1985-1986 and 1986-1987 seasons, but once again didn't received the opportunity to perform for the big boss. In between, he developed his craft on the stand-up comedy circuit, and appeared in mainstream films such as Once Bitten and The Dead Pool. Despite initially being rejected by SNL for the 1980-81 season, Carrey eventually rose to fame as an original cast member on In Living Color approximately a decade later. As Carrey's career progressed, he took on more challenging roles in The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and most recently in the Showtime series Kidding. He delivered a breakout performance in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and headlined both Dumb and Dumber and The Mask in the same year, 1994. In the present, Carrey is best known for starring in several classic comedies from the '90s. As fate would have it, the Canadian comic's audition tape never made it to series creator Lorne Michaels. During the early '80s, a teenaged Carrey hoped to join SNL for its sixth season, and would've appeared alongside new cast member Eddie Murphy had he been successful. Jim Carrey guest starred as Joe Biden on Saturday Night Live - approximately 40 years after his failed audition for the iconic NBC sketch comedy series.

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