A new painting by comedian Jim Carrey celebrates Parkland school shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez while belittling — in every sense of the word — comedian Louis C.K.
Awash in bright yellow under a “Drawn To Scale” heading, the painting shows Gonzalez, wearing a March For Our Lives T-shirt, standing tall and staring down at a small male figure standing in front of a microphone.
“Louie can’t C. K?” Carrey wrote in the caption on Twitter where the Tweet has been liked more than 36,000 times.
Carrey’s painting arrives as a comedy routine by Louis C.K. was leaked over the weekend from a Dec. 16 set in New York. The comedian cracked jokes about school shooting survivors and their activism in speaking before Congress. On Feb. 14, 2018, 17 students and faculty members were fatally gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
“They testify in front of Congress, these kids … (expletives) …,” Louis C.K. said in the leaked audio. “You’re not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot. Why does that mean I have to listen to you? How does that make you interesting? You didn’t get shot, you pushed some fat kid in the way — now I gotta listen to you talking?”
The jokes drew immediate backlash from Parkland students and parents. Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime Guttenberg was killed Feb. 14, responded on Twitter: “To anyone who knows Louis CK, please deliver this message for me. My daughter was killed in the Parkland shooting. My son ran from the bullets. My wife and I deal with loss everyday. Why don’t you come to my house and try out your new pathetic jokes?”
Delaney Tarr, a Stoneman Douglas graduate who co-founded the March For Our Lives movement, also Tweeted, “Leave Louis CK in 2018. We’re not taking this energy into 2019.”
Carrey has become known for his political art. On New Year’s Eve, the “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” star shared another cartoon that showed President Donald Trump scooping up a brown dessert. “This is not a brown pie,’’ Carrey wrote in the caption.
In another recent cartoon, he painted a medic trying to resuscitate a weak Statue of Liberty. The captain reads, “We’re losing her.”
