Jim Carrey Mocks The Late Charlton Heston And Gun Nut Penises In ‘Cold Dead Hand'

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

I'm normally not the biggest Carrey fan, but this was pretty good:

The video itself, released early Monday morning, is as unlikely to dial back the conservative outrage as it is to change any minds, but the real point of the clip seems to be summed up by the freeze-frame above: a deliberately terse gesture of defiance.

“Cold Dead Hand” is full of blunt provocations, from the use of conservative NRA icon Charlton Heston to the trope that gun nuts are compensating for tiny penises. Backed by a three-piece band consisting of gun victims John Lennon, Abraham Lincoln, and Mahatma Ghandi, Carrey’s cowboy crooner taunts Heston on the set of Hee-Haw by explaining that “the angels couldn’t take him up to Heaven as he planned,” because “they couldn’t pry that gun from his cold, dead hand.”

Along the way, Carrey does a decent Charlton Heston, but his Sam Elliott is truly inspired, the sort of semi-obscure impression that gets you major props at the comedian’s cantina. If the bit lacks subtlety, that’s a little like criticizing the sun for shining. This is Jim Carrey we’re talking about.

Carrey does make some worthy points in the song, indicting gun manufacturers for cashing in on “pain and fear,” but the overall effect is pure provocation, and Carrey doesn’t really try to draw a line between the gun nuts who hollered at Newtown parent Neil Heslin, and the more reachable gun owners who overwhelmingly favor universal background checks, and could, maybe, be persuaded to give up Big Gulp ammo drums to save a few lives.

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[Adenoid_Hynkel]

1. It's probably the best country music Carrey's done since the 1950s:

[red dog 1]

15. "Well he brewed White Lightn' 'til the sun went down..

...then he'd fill himself a jug, and he'd pass it around,

Mighty, mighty pleasin'.. Papa's corn squeezin'.....Whshhhoooh.."

[apocalypsehow]

2. LOL - good stuff.

[Broken_Hero]

3. Hi I'm clearly...Sam Elliot

Pay attention Hombre's this boy's got something to say, budding social satire, it goes down smooth....

[dogknob]

4. Whee Dawgie!

The whole thing was just too amazing to describe accurately, but Clearly Sam Elliot damn near made this ol' rooster cough up an ovary!

[Broken_Hero]

6. Same here,

video was borderline funny, but the Sam Elliot bit pushed it into funnyland for me, Carrey did a decent impression of Heston, better than I thought he would do.

[Arctic Dave]

5. LOL, right on.

Fake, but what country music isn't anymore.

[flamingdem]

7. This is a RIOT! Best of luck to Jim Carrey the genius nt

[AlbertCat]

8. Funnier than the actual "Hew Haw"

Which ain't saying too much.

And not as good as the "Chuck & Chuck Show"!

[nolabear]

9. I posted too, not having seen yours. I'm LOL, and the comments are comedy GOLD!

[shenmue]

10. That is some funny sh#t!

[Dryvinwhileblind]

11. Cue Chuck...Damn them! Damn them all to hell!

[Cha]

12. That was actually brilliant.

Bravo Jim Carrey

thanks Adenoid

[ReRe]

13. Awwwwwww, Shoot!

... Jim Carey can sing... seen him on David Letterman one time. I think he sung McArthur Park. Did not know he could sing at all, but he really blew me away that night.

[NaturalHigh]

14. This is the same guy who tweeted that "automatic weapons" should be banned...

Like they haven't been (for the most part) for about 80 years. I don't take him too seriously on the guns issue or much of anything else. Maybe if his best movie wasn't called Dumb and Dumber...