The Cable Guy's Super Bowl 2022 Ad Paid Off Jim Carrey's Movie Monologue
The Cable Guy's Super Bowl 2022 ad paid off Jim Carrey's monologue about the future of technology in the film. First released in 1996 and directed by Ben Stiller, The Cable Guy was Carrey's first major foray into black comedy. Though it also ended up being the first real disappointment in Carrey's career after his rise to stardom, its reputation has grown more positive since then.
In The Cable Guy, Carrey plays cable installer Chip Douglas, who wants to be the friend of Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) after hooking up his cable service. Chip's bizarre behavior and refusal to respect Steven's space leads him to break off the friendship, with Chip becoming vengeful to Steven. The Cable Guy was certainly a departure for Carrey, but he would return to the role during Super Bowl LVI in a surprising way.
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In the Super Bowl 2022 ad, Chip arrives at a customer's apartment, once again pounding the door to make his arrival known, to set up her cable. The customer informs Chip that she's already good to go with Verizon 5G. Much to Chip's surprise, the customer's setup is wireless and doesn't require a coaxial cable to be installed. However, one can only assume Chip was merely feigning his astonishment at Verizon 5G, as he himself predicted it in The Cable Guy.
In the scene where Chip takes Steven to a satellite dish to explain how cable works, he gives a monologue about where the future of cable is headed. In Chip's words made immortal by Jim Carrey's comedic performance: "The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone, and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female mud wrestling on another. You
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