Sing, o muse, of those disgusting conservatives and their impossible ugliness and obsession with bathroom humor.
That’s probably what Jim Carrey says to the TV screen as he watches for inspiration for his art. In a brief interview with the New Yorker, the celebrity eccentric confessed what pushed him to create the paintings he releases on Twitter on a regular basis: It’s MSNBC. “Right now, everybody is laser-focused on every detail of this Administration. And I am, too. I read news online, but mostly I watch MSNBC . . . Rachel Maddow is really good.”
According to Charles Bethea, Carrey “sketches while he watches: wonky portraits, satirical headlines, grotesqueries.” That’s putting it nicely: Carrey vomits disgusting pictures with alarming regularity and then tweets them out for the world to see.
Apparently he’s worked out some deal with Twitter so that his pictures don’t get censored: “I don’t work for a publication, so I’m allowed to do crude things, which I enjoy,” he said. “Twitter doesn’t mind.” If only the GOP were so lucky.
The paintings were so bizarre they merited some tone of judgment from Bethea, who wrote that Carrey’s humor “tended toward the obscene.” Carrey himself thinks that he’s fulfilling some divine mission, stating: “I fight [Trump] to the end. It’s my Arjuna moment--my responsibility to pick up the sword.”
In case someone needs a refresher, Carrey’s paintings about political content have included images of the President’s sons being gored by an elephant, an unflattering portrait of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, with a caption that called her “monstrous,” and several images of Trump with Putin.
What kind of inspiration is MSNBC dealing to help inspire these paintings?
