Watch the trailer for Yes Man after the jump 

Yes Man is Jim Carrey’s first attempt at comedy since 2005′s Fun with Dick and Jane, which was roughly as funny as watching a puppy die.  His last legitimately funny film was probably Liar Liar, back in ’97.  I imagine it’s easy to lose your sense of humor when you spend all day getting your ass kissed by sycophantic leeches and being asked totally serious questions about the color of your coffee sleeve or the temperature of your toilet water.

Regardless, Carrey’s attempting a return to form. He stars opposite Zooey Deschanel, who makes me want to adopt a litter of kittens, and then bone them, in a film adaptation of a book by British writer Danny Wallace, who challenged himself to say yes to everything for a year.  Samuel Jackson has been using the same strategy to choose scripts for years.

JFX online has a clip of Jim Carrey singing ‘Jumper’ by Third Eye Blind to Luis Guzmán, shot by a bystander on the set of Yes Man, which was apparently filmed in a windstorm.  Yes Man, of course, is about a guy who challenges himself to say yes to everything for an entire year, based on a memoir by Danny Wallace:

Wallace, a freelance radio producer for the BBC in London, takes three simple words uttered by a stranger on a bus-"say yes more"-as a challenge and says "yes" to everything for a year. He says "yes" to pamphleteers on the street, the credit card offers stuffing his mailbox and solicitations on the Internet. He attends meetings with a group that believes aliens built the pyramids in Egypt, says "yes" to every invitation to go out on the town and furthers his career by saying "yes" in meetings with executives.

That’s funny, because my top two responses to someone writing a self-help book would be "Go fuck yourself" and "jump in a volcano." And obviously the book was meant solely for men.  A woman who said yes to everything would basically be… like your mother! Wakka wakka wakka!