It’s Friday, and it’s after lunch, so let’s take a moment to be thankful for that.

The day of the week also means we missed the chance of making this iconic scene our Throwback Thursday feature, but now is as good a time as any to take a stroll down memory lane.

Over on the Guardian, they love ranking things, like David Bowie’s greatest songs, or Oasis’ top tracks, but we’ll steer clear of music and go the cinematic route today.

The British outlet has decided to rank Jim Carrey’s 20 best film performances, in order, nogal, with 1995’s Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls coming in fifth.

One scene, in particular, has wowed the judges:

There is one scene in this film that deserves to be placed in a museum, so that future generations can kneel before it. It is Buster Keaton multiplied by Harold Lloyd, pushed through a particle collider of Charlie Chaplin and Jerry Lewis. It is a scene of total, incredible, comic dedication.

It is, of course, the scene where Carrey strips naked and crawls out of a rhinoceros’s anus. I am not exaggerating here. Go and watch it now.

Look at the faces. Listen to the noises. It’s like something from a David Lynch film. It is perfect.

It really is, though.

Nobody else could pull off those fa(e)ces. You can watch a slightly longer version of the same scene here.

1996’s The Cable Guy is fourth, 1998’s The Truman Show is third, and 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind takes silver.

Your greatest ever Jim Carrey performance – drumroll – 1997’s Liar Liar:

Imagine another actor trying to do what Carrey does here, essentially spending an hour and a half possessed by a spirit that prevents him from lying. Imagine how flat and uninteresting it would be. Now, go back and watch Liar Liar.

Watch Carrey writhe and contort in the fruitless pursuit of a lie. Watch it take over his entire body. Better yet, this film gave him a family for the first time, rooting his mania in something identifiable.

At this stage in his career, Carrey was pumping out films at a prodigious rate – this was his seventh in three years – and he was figuring out new moves at every turn. In Liar Liar, he figured out the impossible: how to be a human being.

What colour is that pen, Jim?

Another classic.

If I can offer my own opinion here, I’d like to point out that Me, Myself & Irene deserves to be higher than 13th, and Hank is a masterpiece.

Here’s the first time he came out to play:

The Charlie versus Hank scene is also fantastic:

Alright, enough Jim for today.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, he’s still as strange as ever.

[source:guardian]