{"id":385864,"date":"2018-11-20T21:19:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T20:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/showtimes-kidding-with-jim-carrey-everyone-has-a-breaking-point\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T21:19:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T20:19:05","slug":"showtimes-kidding-with-jim-carrey-everyone-has-a-breaking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/showtimes-kidding-with-jim-carrey-everyone-has-a-breaking-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Showtime\u2019s Kidding with Jim Carrey: Everyone has a breaking point"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Showtime\u2019s Kidding<\/em> with Jim Carrey: Everyone has a breaking point<\/h2>\n
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\n Ed Hightower
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20 November 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n

Significant drama and comedy help make sense of a complicated, often heart-breaking world. It shows life with its countless interconnections, contradictions, twists and turns\u2014a cutaway image of an unfolding social process. The new Showtime series Kidding<\/em> demonstrates how effectively the medium of television can depict a number of people\u2014old, young, wealthy, healthy, unhealthy, famous, ordinary and more\u2014doing the best they can in turbulent circumstances.<\/p>\n

Kidding<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n

At the center of Kidding<\/em> stands an internationally beloved puppeteer and children\u2019s show host, the Fred Rogers-inspired Jeff Piccirillo (Jim Carrey), or \u201cJeff Pickles\u201d as he is known, who is struggling to navigate the loss of his son and to maintain the success of his children\u2019s television program, Mr. Pickles<\/em>\u2019<\/em> Puppet Time<\/em>. Everyone adores Mr. Pickles. Throughout Kidding<\/em> we learn that Mr. Pickles\u2019 inspirational, funny, confidence-building and tolerance-pushing puppeteering has inspired drug addicts to get clean, and car thieves to remorsefully return his PT Cruiser (though one wheel doesn\u2019t match).<\/p>\n

At every encounter the public expresses gratitude and admiration for the man who \u201cis in their living room alone with their kids.\u201d Late night television host Conan O\u2019Brien, who has Pickles as a guest, along with the rough-and-tumble Danny Trejo, appears out of touch with the audience, even his own cameramen, as they join in singing the theme song of Mr. Pickles<\/em>\u2019<\/em> Puppet Time<\/em>, \u201cYou can feel \u2026 anything at all, anything at all is fine; it\u2019s you who\u2019s doing the feeling, and that makes it okay …\u201d From the outset the viewer is drawn to Pickles, wants to follow him and cheer him on.<\/p>\n

Jim…<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 Showtime\u2019s Kidding with Jim Carrey: Everyone has a breaking point By Ed Hightower 20 November 2018 Significant drama and comedy help make sense of a complicated, often heart-breaking world. It shows life with its countless interconnections, contradictions, twists and turns\u2014a cutaway image of an unfolding social process. The new Showtime series Kidding demonstrates how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}