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Barnaby Joyce Just Can NOT Stop Making Johnny Depp Jokes

'Just catching up with a bag full of cousins'.
Joyce's latest Johnny Depp joke.
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Joyce's latest Johnny Depp joke.

The feud between Hollywood star Johnny Depp and Canberra star Barnaby Joyce is finished, but that doesn't mean our deputy Prime Minister is going to stop gloating any time soon.

Joyce -- who had a long-running and controversial and hilarious stoush with Depp when his partner Amber Heard brought their two dogs Pistol and Boo into Australia illegally -- has seemingly enjoyed the international spotlight being shone on our country's quarantine and biosecurity regulations, with the feud reaching the American talk show circuit and beyond.

After Heard escaped any real penalty for the dog smuggling, she and Depp recorded the most bizarre and weird apology video of all time, telling fans everywhere to "Declare everything when you enter Australia." Afterwards, Depp went on the Jimmy Kimmel show and claimed that "Barnaby Jones" looked like he was "inbred with a tomato."

Joyce responded with the greatest Barnaby-ism of all time, saying "I'm inside [Depp's] head, I'm pulling little strings and pulling little levers... I'm turning into his Hannibal Lecter."

That was a few weeks ago. And today, just when you thought the weirdest celebrity feud of 2016 was over...

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