Author: Andy McDonald / Source: HuffPost
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey usually saves his political musings for Twitter or his latest painting. This weekend, though, he voiced his views while accepting the Charlie Chaplin Award for Excellence in Comedy from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in Los Angeles on Friday night.
“I’m glad it didn’t come in the mail,” Carrey joked about his award statue, referencing the recent slew of bombs sent in the mail to high-profile targets of President Donald Trump. “Maybe a little soon? It is my job to try. Yes, I no longer have packages delivered to my home in the great America that has been fashioned in the last couple of years.”
Much to the audience’s delight, Carrey then went full bore into a poignant, impassioned speech about the current political system.
“Almost half of America at this moment believes there is a sinister deep state diabolically plotting … to what?” Carrey asked. “Give them health care?”
He praised his comedy hero, actor Charlie Chaplin, for the…
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