Jim Carrey stars in anti-gun ‘Hee-Haw’ spoof

Jim Carrey’s opposition to gun owners and their rights has inspired the comic actor to creatively vent in a new video posted online at the comedy website Funny or Die.

In the video, which presents itself as a knock off on the TV variety show Hee Haw, Carrey first presents a broad impersonation of the late actor Charlton Heston, who famously declared that advocates of gun control would need to pry any firearm he was in possession of “from (his) cold, dead hands.”

After a film career playing everyone from Moses to Ben-Hur to Marc Antony, Heston served as the president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), a largely ceremonial post, from 1998 to 2003.

In the video, Carrey then teams up with alt-rock band Eels as mock country-western band Lonesome Earl and The Clutterbusters, singing a song titled Cold Dead Hand. In recent months, gun control has become an issue of national importance, especially since the Newtown elementary school shooting in December that left 26 dead.

Carrey has taken to Twitter repeatedly to voice his feelings on the topic and even released a statement accompanying the video, saying “I find the gun problem frustrating and ‘Cold Dead Hand’ is my fun little way of expressing that frustration.”

The Funny or Die video ends with Heston accidentally shooting his foot off, much to the amusement of Lonesome Earl’s band-mates (among them shooting victims Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon and Mahatma Gandhi) and the Hee Haw studio audience.

 

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