On November 21, 2001, Rodney Dangerfield appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to celebrate his 80th birthday. After performing stand-up, Dangerfield sat down for a brief chat with Leno, which was basically an extension of his stage routine. Leno then brought out Jim Carrey as a surprise, and he and Dangerfield reminisced about their days doing stand-up together. When Carrey told him how inspiring it was to see him still performing, Dangerfield asked, “What am I gonna do at my age?” The last thing Carrey said to him on the air that night was, “I don’t know, but I know CPR, so don’t worry about it. I can get you through the show.”

It was a strange, almost prescient thing to say. If Carrey made that remark because he suspected something was wrong with Dangerfield, he wasn’t the only on

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