FROM THE SKETCH ARCHIVE
A face you won’t forget
Background Guy
Played by Jim Carrey
In Living Color's Background Guy, played by Jim Carrey, is a clean-cut man in a white shirt and tie who cannot resist upstaging live television from behind the people on camera, trying ever more outlandish bits to stay in the shot.
1sketch in the archive
1performer in the role
In character. On screen.
Their moment in the spotlight.
Behind the character
The people in the part.
A little character study
More to the story.
Seen in the same sketches
They’re in good company.
One great character.
A whole cast to discover.