Jim Carrey's Christmas comedy

Dec 29, 2009, 10:25 GMT

Jim Carrey used to throw himself down the stairs at Christmas time.

The 'Dumb and Dumber' star loved the festive period when he was growing up because it gave him the audience he needed to practice his comedy and would do anything to make them laugh.

He said: "Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own. When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that. It came to fruition, it all came together on the Christmas holidays when everybody would come over to our house, all the relatives and neighbours and everybody would storm our house because it was the Jim Carrey show. I was a little kid but I would throw myself down stairways and do all kinds of characters."

Jim says his comedic routines helped him become one of the most popular members of his family.

He added: "That's how I first got popular within my family. It's funny, I needed to get popular within my family. That's really the test. But that was important to me."