Despite some mediocre films lately, man is Jim Carrey one of comedy's OGs. We'd nearly forgotten how funny this dude was until we came across this recent video he made for Funny Or Die spoofing Charlton Heston and our country's asinine gun laws. Joined by the band Eels (of all people), Carrey plays both the late actor and Lonesome Earl, the singer of a country band called the Clutterbusters (played by the alt rockers dressed up as Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and a groovy John Lennon type). As Earl, Carrey sings a little ditty called "Cold Dead Hand" on late-'60s/early '70s-era Hee Haw featuring lyrics about Heston's penis such as "you're a big, big man with a little bitty gland."
Dick jokes aside, apparently Jim Carrey is very, very serious when it comes to the topic of gun control. Just ahead of the video's release, he tweeted the following:
