Jim Carrey on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Jim Carrey appeared on The Tonight Show to discuss his novel Memoirs and Misinformation and how he came into possession of the late Rodney Dangerfield's pot pipe.

Host Jimmy Fallon mentioned Dangerfield to Carrey on Thursday due to the comedian appearing in the book. Carrey described how he met Dangerfield and the friendship that they had.

"I was touring with him like at Caesars Palace and all these places where people were just scratching their heads because I was experimenting and he would say, 'Man, they're looking at you like you're from another friggin' planet you know," Carrey said while impersonating Dangerfield.

"He just loved my greenness. He would laugh openly out of nowhere and just look at my face and start laughing. And he'd ask me questions like, 'Hey kid, have you ever been in love?'" Carrey continued.

Carrey said Dangerfield's wife Joan sent him an email about how much she enjoyed Memoirs and Misinformation and how her late husband would have been happy with the book. She sent Carrey Dangerfield's pipe.

"You know when he passed away, she sent me this beautiful box with his favorite shirt and his pot pipe. Which is you know, if you knew him, that's pretty much the grail," Carrey said.

Dangerfield died at the age of 82 in 2004.

Memoirs and Misinformation, which Carrey co-wrote with Dana Vachon, was released on July 7. The book is semi-autobiographical.

Jim Carrey planned out how he was going to spend his final moments during a fake missile alert in Hawaii.

The actor’s assistant called telling him they had 10 minutes left to live following the alert, sent out to the people of Hawaii in 2018.

After trying unsuccessfully to get off the island with his daughter, Jim resigned himself to his fate and planned to spend what was left of his life staring out at the ocean and being ‘thankful’.

However when it turned out to be a false alarm, he joked that ‘heads rolled’.

Appearing from home on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the 58-year-old explained: ‘It was completely real to us. At that point I started going, “OK what can I do with this last moment of time”.

‘I just decided to go through a list of gratitudes and honest to God I just could not stop thinking of wonderful things that have happened to me and blessings I’ve had.

‘It was lovely. And I got to a point of grace at about two minutes to spare when I found out it wasn’t actually happening.

‘All I was planning to do was closing my eyes and be thankful because it’s been a good ride.’

On hearing the alert was fake, the Ace Ventura star quipped: ‘I got pissed off and heads rolled.’

Jim can be seen in Showtime series Kidding, playing children’s TV star Ted Pickles who must balance his work and his grief following the death of one of his sons.

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