Jim Carrey condemns Charlton Heston to Hell in 'Hee Haw' spoof video

Jim Carrey pulls no punches in the gun control debate.  What a great Canadian.

'Cold Dead Hand': Jim Carrey takes a shot at the NRA. (Screenshot from Funny or Die video)

 Aw, shoot!

Jim Carrey may hail from Canada, but he's one of America's biggest stars. Carrey has also been a US citizen since 2004, and is throwing his celebrity behind the push for more serious gun control.

Jim Carrey did a "Hee Haw" spoof video for Funny or Die, in which he looks a lot like Bruce Campbell as he impersonates the late Charlton Heston. In the video, Carrey-as-Heston watches Jim Carrey-as-a-country-singer (along with American alt-rock band The Eels) perform a song called "Cold Dead Hand", echoing Charlton Heston's most famous quote


"Jim Carrey" and "subtle" are rarely used in the same sentence. If that video were made by Eternal-Sunshine-of-theSpotless-Mind Jim Carrey rather than Ace-Ventura Jim Carrey, would it have gone as viral? Probably not. That guy knows what works; he knows his audience.

Pushback for such a video was virtually guaranteed, and so it came to pass. That's what happens when you imply that Charlton Heston's firearms advocacy has kept him out of Heaven.

Fox News (which also knows its audience) raked Carrey over the coals for the video, as it was a direct shot at the network's core viewership. Jim Carrey shot back,



I wish them all the luck that accompanies such malevolence.”

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