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Yes Man (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Jim Carrey performed his own bungee jump stunts.
  
  
• Jim Carrey declined an upfront salary for this film. Instead he will be paid 36.2% of the film's profits.
  
  
• Jack Black was originally considered for the lead role.
  
  
• Based on an autobiographical book written by Danny Wallace, a British author, producer, and journalist who spent a year answering "yes" to any given question or proposal and recording the results.
  
  
• The day before Zooey Deschanel had to get on the scooter for the first time, her stunt double fell off and shattered her hip. Zooey was told that it would take the stunt woman about nine months to recover, so she was asked to get on the bike for the shot herself.
  
  
• Cameo: [Danny Wallace] The writer of the book upon which the film is based can be seen sitting at the bar during the wedding shower.
  
  
• Even though one of the movie's main posters has Jim Carrey running through a field of flowers gracefully, he does not run through a field of flowers once throughout the film.
  
  
• When Carl is in "Blockbuster" the second time around, he picks up The Cable Guy (1996), a movie Jim Carrey stars in, to rent.
  
  
• There are multiple references to Harry Potter in the film. David Heyman, one of the film's producers, also produces the Harry Potter films.
  
  
• While Carl is in the video store you can see another Jim Carrey movie, The Number 23 (2007), playing out of focus in the background.
  
  
• Stars Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel share the same birthday, January 17. However, Carrey was born in 1962 and Deschanel in 1980 making him exactly eighteen years older than her.
  
  
• In Norm's office, we see posters for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and The Goonies (1985). Both movies featured Chris Columbus directing or writing. Footage from the first two Harry Potter films is also shown during the party scene.
  
  
• Terence Stamp plays the leader of the "Yes Program". He plays a similar character in Bowfinger (1999) as leader of the mind-head cult.
  
  
• Jim Carrey was seduced by the project as he felt it would enable him to act in some truly funny scenes which would also make the audience think about themselves and wonder if they should perhaps say "yes" more often.
  
  
• Director Peyton Reed spent a lot of time with Jim Carrey to find the right tone for the film, one which would be in between Carrey's manic comedies and his more serious-minded films, as well as to complete the subject's Americanization, as the source book comes from a British author.
  
  
• Just like his character, Jim Carrey said "yes" to many things during the production of this movie. He indeed truly played the guitar, learned basic Korean, rode a sport bike and bungee-jumped. He however had to say "no" for the body blading scene.
  
  
• The fictional band "Munchausen By Proxy" featured in the film is named after the Münchausen syndrome by proxy, which is a psychological disorder, and is composed of actress/singer/songwriter Zooey Deschanel and the real-life band "Von Iva", which got the part after music supervisor Jonathan Karp saw the cover of their CD in Amoeba, in Hollywood. On Lakeshore Records' soundtrack release they are credited as "Munchausen by Proxy (f/ Zooey Deschanel & Von Iva)".
  
  
• Composer Mark Everett is the lead singer of the rock band The Eels, which explains the large number of songs by the band featured in the film.
  
  
• While filming the scene in the bar where Carl runs into a waitress and falls on his back, Jim Carrey did the stunt incorrectly, fell to the floor harder than he expected, and broke three ribs in the process.
  
  
• Jim Carrey's bungee jump stunt was the final scene filmed, but not before it caused much problems for the insurance company and the producers due to his insistence of performing the stunt himself. The insurance company was not willing to underwrite a premium for a lead actor over a stunt double. Finally an agreement was reached between both parties with the producers assuring two things to the company: the stunt to be performed after filming technically ended; the scene could only be filmed once. Eight cameras were used to film the stunt and Carrey performed it uninjured.
  
  
• In the Spanish dubbed version of the movie, Carl refers to the first cake that the celebrity cake lady shows him as looking like Ricky Martin instead of Mickey Rourke.
  
  
• After Carl's (Jim Carrey) big bender and fight at the club, there is an overhead pan of Carl lying on a bathroom floor. The clothes he is wearing, the positioning of his legs, arms and head and the scratching guitar music score is a homage to David Bowie's "Lodger" album and its cover photo.
  
  
• The film that Carl is watching on TV in his apartment is The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), a film also about a timid man in a dead-end job whose life is greatly improved by reluctantly saying "yes" to a dare.
  
  
• During one of the scenes in the movie, Jim Carrey's character Carl is watching the movie Saw (2004). A film in which his Liar Liar (1997) co-star Cary Elwes stars.
  
  
• One of the most terrifying shots for Jim Carrey was the one with the dog in front of him after saying "no" the first time. The rope actually broke several times during filming.
  
  

• SPOILER: Carl makes two references to The Beatles in this movie. The first was when Carl and Allison are in the Hollywood Bowl, and Carl begins to sing "Can't Buy Me Love". This is a reference to The Beatles as they had famously played at the Bowl frequently during Beatlemania. The second reference is after Carl plays the guitar and pulls the suicidal man off the ledge and shouts, "I've got blisters on my fingers"! This is a reference to the song "Helter Skelter", in which Ringo Starr shouts this after the song ends.
  
  

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