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Jim Carrey to star in new comedy

Jim Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ont. Getty Images

TORONTO – Canadian actor Jim Carrey is reteaming with director Steve Oedekerk, who wrote and directed his hit Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and wrote Bruce Almighty, for a new comedy.

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Carrey, 51, will star in Stanicky as an out-of-work actor hired by a group of friends to play the part of a fictitious friend they use as an alibi.

Oedekerk will write and direct.

Carrey recently starred in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and shows up next in the made-in-Toronto flick Kick-Ass 2.

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