With nothing but a tale and a microphone, nine storytellers took to the stage Friday night at the Sconset Casino for the Nantucket Film Festival’s Latenight Storytelling Event to captivate the audience.

Jim Carrey, Tina Fey, Laird Hamilton and six other storytellers entertained the capacity crowd with anecdotes under the theme of, “If you could do it all over again . . . what would you do?”

Director Peter Farrelly (“Me, Myself and Irene,” “Stuck on You,”) and comedian Anne Meara, a longtime Nantucket summer resident, hosted the event, which kicked off with the Rev. Ted Anderson describing his first realization that he was going through a mid-life crisis.

In typical Anderson fashion, with powerful rhetoric and flowing language, the retired Unitarian minister described a time when he was at the dump and found six cut brownstones that he had to have.

“I couldn’t move the stones. That’s when I found that a mid-life crisis begins with a sudden, hot, flash,” said Anderson, who added that he succumbed to the dump’s lure once again to retrieve a cast iron wood stove. “I assumed the Bulgarian squat and eventually began cursing the sex of my birth.”

Returning home with the stove in tow, Anderson’s wife complained that they already had two rusting away in the backyard.

“ ‘Won’t you ever learn,’ she said,” said Anderson. “And with my irresistible macho flash, I realized we were communicating.”

Meara cracked back at Anderson, who was allowed to use notes, that his story was long and unrelated to the night’s theme.

“When you started that story, I was still ovulating,” she proclaimed. “Saturday Night Live” head writer and “Weekend Update” anchor Fey, married for three years now, described her honeymoon. Her husband doesn’t like to fly, so they took a cruise from New York City to Bermuda.

“It was a little more dirt-baggy than I thought it would be,” said Fey, about the week-long cruise. “Go with people you know.”

Fey explained she and her husband went to a late show on the boat called “Fiesta Caliente.” The place was packed and then an announcement came on.

“Bravo, Bravo, Bravo – main engine starboard side – Bravo, Bravo, Bravo,” Fey said the address system declared in a panting, distressed voice.

Another announcement followed – the captain telling everyone to go back to their cabins, get their lifejackets and report to their muster station.

“This was in June 2001 in a crowded theater. Everyone is trying to get out. I had to fight every Nazi impulse that welled up in me not to shove the elderly, handicapped and children out of the way,” said Fey, who is half-German.

While no one knew what to do because they all skipped the mandatory drill and were a bit tipsy, it got dead quiet.

“It was terrifying. I’m scared,” said Fey, who explained that a constant announcement came on telling everyone to remain calm. “Dan Dan the Partyman transformed into serious Dan the cruise director. The scantily clad girls, still in costume, from ‘Fiesta Caliente’ were directing people what to do.”

She said the crew was investigating a fire and that there was a burst fuel pipe in the main engine room. After 40 minutes, though, the fire was out and the crew served cold drinks to the terrified passengers.

“Some of the people were being selective,” Fey proclaimed. “‘Do you have root beer? Do you have diet? they asked.’”

With the damage done to the engine room, the cruise returned to Bermuda and flew everyone back to New York, she said.

“I found out cruises are 75 percent people who don’t like to fly,” Fey said. “If I could do anything all over again, I would’ve honeymooned in Nantucket.”

Carrey’s story, though, may have been the highlight of the night. He began by saying Nantucket is a beautiful place and that he was struck by all the Native American names he encountered and was impressed with the respect and tribute to the former inhabitants of the island.

He then impersonated an old, wise Native American, talked in a low, throaty voice and pretended to dance around a fire and made gestures and movements and flapped his arms.

His real story though, as he described, was a personal story, a coming-of-age story.

“I was 11 or 12 and I began feeling things happening inside of me. I noticed an urge. I became in contact with myself and my sexual urges,” Carrey described. “I brought myself to happy joyness.”

He proceeded to recount in hilarious and ribald detail his adolescent urges, culminating in an experience with a lime-green carpet.

To conclude his coming of age story, Carrey exclaimed, “If I had to do it all over again . . . I’d go shag baby.”

Hamilton, a professional surfer, told a story about the time he decided to jet ski the almost 40 miles across dangerous channels from Maui to Oahu to get to the set of “Waterworld,” where he was working as a stuntman. He got lost, ran out of fuel and was in the water for more than 12 hours before being rescued.

Steve Driscoll and Andy Bichelbaum from the cast of “The Yes Men,” Patrick Hayes, Mary Jo Capone and the author of “Side Man,” Warren Leight, also told stories.