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Any comedic actor who finds mainstream fame by either playing multiple roles in the same movie or gaining superstardom through physical pratfalling and constant mugging will inevitably be dubbed the second coming of Peter Sellers, something Jim Carrey<\/a> knows fine well.<\/p>\n He\u2019d already been mentioned in the same breath several times after his rubber-faced antics strapped a rocket to his back in 1994, and they weighed heavier than ever<\/a> when he headlined 2004\u2019s Lemony Snicket\u2019s A Series of Unfortunate Events as Count Olaf. The role required him to sport prosthetics and wear several disguises, so it was easy to see why Sellers\u2019 name was invoked.<\/p>\n Robin Williams cited the Dr Strangelove star as one of his biggest influences and cherished Stanley Kubrick\u2019s timeless farce as one of his all-time favourite movies<\/a>, and nobody was shocked to discover that Mike Myers held him in similar esteem, what with the Wayne\u2019s World and Austin Powers frontman hardly shying away from taking on several parts in a project he\u2019d originated himself.<\/p>\n Even Eddie Murphy, who made it part of his signature schtick, will be channelling Sellers\u2019 spirit when he plays Inspector Clouseau in the next Pink Panther reinvention<\/a>. All of those actors were among the biggest and highest-paid names of their era, but Carrey\u2019s candidate for the legendary comic\u2019s heir apparent hasn\u2019t quite managed to join them.<\/p>\n That doesn\u2019t make him any less successful, though, with Rhys Darby making his feature debut in Carrey\u2019s 2008 vehicle, Yes Man, a year after Flight of the Conchords had made the jump from radio to television. Speaking to Indie London<\/a>, the leading man couldn\u2019t speak highly enough of the big-screen debutant, going to bat for him by comparing him to one of the best ever.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s just absolutely brilliant,\u201d Carrey said. \u201cHe\u2019s got that Peter Sellers madness inside him, and it just worked out so perfectly because my character is broken and doesn\u2019t want to be involved with anybody, and doesn\u2019t want to be seen by anybody. And this character, played by Rhys Darby, is so full of love and so wants to be my friend that it becomes incredibly painful for me. Rhys was just genius at it, it was great.\u201d<\/p>\n Yes Man hardly ranks as one of the actor\u2019s finest hours in front of the camera, and Darby was equal parts thrilled and daunted. Ironically, he referred to Carrey and Sellers as \u201cboth of my comic heroes,\u201d and one of them saying he was the heir apparent to the other must have been a pinch-me moment for a comedian who\u2019d never even been in a movie before.<\/p>\n Then again, Darby did add that when it comes to Sellers, \u201cnobody has been able to match his comic acting skills,\u201d but there\u2019s no harm in trying. He never set out to imitate or emulate him, not that anybody could if they tried, but the New Zealander has still managed to carve out a niche<\/a> that\u2019s made him a hugely popular actor and comedian in his own right.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits Far Out \/ The Hollywood Archive \/ Alamy) Sat 11 October 2025 16:15, UK Any comedic actor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,26260,2839,84907,84908,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-194371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jim-carrey","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-peter-sellers","12":"tag-rhys-darby","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}