Why did Jim Carrey get kicked out?

In 2019, Canadian-American actor, Jim Carrey, was asked to vacate the ‘movie section’ of the audience by hosts Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh.

This was after the actor played along gamely with a hilarious skit during the awards show’s opening.

The comedy star, attending in support of his TV series kidding, acted incredulously, storming off to join the rest of the television stars, and bringing his dinner with him so he didn’t ‘leave any DNA in the film section’.

Opening the show, Killing Eve star Oh — who won the best television actress prize on the night for the cat-and-mouse thriller — spotted Carrey in the crowd.

‘I am seeing Jim Carrey sitting up front tonight in the movie section even though he’s nominated for a TV show,’ she said backed by co-host and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Samberg.

‘That’s not going to work, I am so sorry, Jim but we are going to have to ask you to vacate the movie section and go sit with the TV folk,’ Samberg said.

You’re kidding, right?’ replied Carrey, to which Samberg said: ‘It’s awkward because you’re our hero but we do have to ask you to move.’

Carrey then pleaded to stay, shouting that he would be in the new Sonic the Hedgehog film later this year as a security guard tapped him on the shoulder.

‘I’m going, should I take my dinner too?’ he said, getting up. ‘I wouldn’t want to leave any of my DNA in the film section.’

The hosts apologised, only for Carrey to retort from the TV section: ‘I’m sorry, I can’t hear you. I see your lips moving but there’s a delay, it takes a long time for the sound to get this far.’