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Comedians are picking fights this week. Here's Jim Carrey versus the National Rifle Association, in the form of a Funny or Die? video that's got danders up in the Us. It sees Carrey team up with the band Eels on a comic country-and-western number, Cold Dead Hand, mocking Charlton Heston and Us gun-lovers. Backed by a band including John Lennon, Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln (all killed by guns), Carrey's alter ego Lonesome Earl accuses gun enthusiasts of having small penises, and sings: "On the ones who sell the guns/ [God would] set the vultures and coyotes/ Only the devil's true devotees/ Could profiteer from pain and fear." Carrey announced...
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This week's comedy news
Comedians are picking fights this week. Here's Jim Carrey versus the National Rifle Association, in the form of a Funny or Die? video that's got danders up in the Us. It sees Carrey team up with the band Eels on a comic country-and-western number, Cold Dead Hand, mocking Charlton Heston and Us gun-lovers. Backed by a band including John Lennon, Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln (all killed by guns), Carrey's alter ego Lonesome Earl accuses gun enthusiasts of having small penises, and sings: "On the ones who sell the guns/ [God would] set the vultures and coyotes/ Only the devil's true devotees/ Could profiteer from pain and fear." Carrey announced...
- 3/26/2013
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
Norman Collier has died at the age of 87.
The stand-up comedian passed away yesterday (March 14) at a Hull care home, Chortle reports.
His son-in-law John Ainsley told ITV News: "He was a wonderful man and we adored him with all our hearts. Whatever he was on stage, he was the same off stage.
"All the family were close to him. We went on holiday together. He started life as a labourer in Hull with no ambition or desire to be on stage. He just wanted to make people laugh."
He added: "He viewed the world with the philosophy that he saw the funny side of life on and off stage. It was a joy and an honour and a privilege to share his company and that's what everyone thought about him.
"His genius on stage was how he saw life and his act was how he saw life. He was...
The stand-up comedian passed away yesterday (March 14) at a Hull care home, Chortle reports.
His son-in-law John Ainsley told ITV News: "He was a wonderful man and we adored him with all our hearts. Whatever he was on stage, he was the same off stage.
"All the family were close to him. We went on holiday together. He started life as a labourer in Hull with no ambition or desire to be on stage. He just wanted to make people laugh."
He added: "He viewed the world with the philosophy that he saw the funny side of life on and off stage. It was a joy and an honour and a privilege to share his company and that's what everyone thought about him.
"His genius on stage was how he saw life and his act was how he saw life. He was...
- 3/15/2013
- Digital Spy
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