Show 'The Duck Factory' is newest comedy created by NBC pared “He’s the best technically wonderful” Carrey says “But he doesn’t show anything of himself That’s what I don’t want to get into I don’t want to be a faceless person trapped inside impressions I always want to be me first” The inspiration for “The Duck Factory” suggests Carrey was Allan Burns’ own experiences as a young writer in an animation studio where he wrote for the Bullwinkle cartoons Burns later was (with James Brooks) and executive producer of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” The show takes an affectionate view of its subject largely because of Burns’ background “The characters are all ‘very endearing”’ says Carrey “They all have something about them you like even the ‘cynical writer’ (Jay Tarses) and the ‘old bitch’ (Julie Payne) And you’re not nauseated by the ‘dumb blonde’ (Teresa Ganzel)” Jack Gilford Nancy Lane Clarence Gilyard Jr and Don Messick also star The show has an tone that is reflected through Carrey’s wide-eye- d ingenuous character “That’s what I was like when I came here a year ago I didn’t come on a bus but it was the same experience I haven’t changed but now I know what Holly- By Laurie Deans “When ‘The Duck Factory’ came along I knew it was for me It’s like it was written for me — it’s so me” says Jim Carrey the star of the new NBC comedy But one aspect of the Canadian-bor- n Carrey that the series doesn’t emphasize is that he is an impressionist who already has dozens of club dates and TV appearances behind him That says Carrey is precisely what attracted him to “The Duck Factory” “What I loved was that the show wasn’t about doing impressions” he says “That’s my act which I love to do but I wanted the chance to be myself I’m glad and executive producer) Allan Burns looked past what most people see when they see my act He saw me doing my Henry Fonda impression and saw an actor trying to get out” or But that doesn’t mean there will be no impressions on “The Duck Factory” The comedy is set in a small animation company where everyone’s efforts go into creating a creature called Dippy Duck for a Saturday morning cartoon show Carrey plays Skip Tarkenton the newest animator on board who unexpectedly becomes the studio’s head producer Animators by the demands of their trade are some of the craziest impressionists around always making faces and doing voices But Carrey notes “though we may do an episode or two in which I slip something in we don’t want to make that the reality of the character” Carrey hopes to differentiate himself from Rich Little a fellow Canadian impressionist with whom he’s often com wood is like” Burns has described Carrey’s character as someone who combines Dick Van Dyke’s physical humor and Mary Tyler Moore’s ability to be “the person who always gets stuck in the middle and has to pull everything together” Carrey also credits Van Dyke as his strongest influence along with comedic actors like James Stewart “To me Jimmy Stewart is a flawless 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