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The Guardian - UK
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Jim Carrey says Fox News is fit to burst

JIM CARREY
Jim Carrey has dropped the mask of friendship with Fox News. Photograph: New Line Cinema/Everett/Rex Features

He is more used to sparring with fellow stars on the big screen – but Jim Carrey has found a more provocative target: Fox News. The Dumb and Dumber star has traded barbs with the right-wing US news channel over its apparent opposition to new gun-control measures. According to i, Carrey released a statement describing Fox News as a "media colostomy bag that has begun to burst at the seams and should be emptied before it becomes a public-health issue". Ouch! That stinker was prompted by Fox News commentator Greg Gutfield describing Carrey as "probably the most pathetic tool on the face of the earth … This video made me want to go out and buy a gun". Let's keep it to a verbal-only shootout please, chaps.

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