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TIL Chris Barnes, vocalist for Cannibal Corpse, told Jim Carrey that his neck movements in the “Fire Marshall Bill” skit freaked him out. Carrey responded “What? This? This grosses you out? All that shit you write and that little thing grosses you out?”

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