Now, I might not be a cable guy, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't spew lines from random movies out of nowhere, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't have an obsession. Here, he plays a lunatic, so there are no limits for him to adhere to, and where he would normally seem over the top (the Medieval Times sequence), he is genuinely hilarious.
His performance works so well because he normally goes too far with his antics, making himself seem annoying on occasion, rather than funny. Carrey plays 'Chip Douglas' (which might be his real name, or it might not), a Cable Guy brought up on TV and movies. Most people I know don't really enjoy this, but that's because they can't really relate, or they don't want to. Aside from the classic 'Dumb and Dumber', none of his comedy roles can even begin to compare to his superb, electric performance here.
Jim Carrey has only been better than this in two movies, 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', and 'Man on the Moon', but both were more or less dramatic roles.
